Top Senior Solutions Architect Jobs in Chicago, IL

Owns and improves the operational toolkit supporting Solutions Architects, including systems, workflows, reporting, documentation, support requests, engagement tracking, capacity planning, and data quality. Partners with revenue technology, analytics, and system owners to translate field needs into requirements, automate processes, improve handoffs, and sustain adoption. Supports SA leadership through reporting, business reviews, operating rhythms, testing, rollouts, and continuous operational improvements.

Leads technical discovery, demonstrations, solution architecture, workshops, and proofs of value for GitLab’s AI-powered DevSecOps platform. Advises customers on software development, CI/CD, security, cloud practices, and digital transformation. Partners with Account Executives to support customer acquisition and expansion, builds trusted technical relationships, represents customer needs internally, and creates reusable technical guidance and collateral.

Lead technical integrations of Cedar's platform with client healthcare systems: discover requirements, map data formats, validate data/UAT, communicate technical security and authentication needs, manage complex projects, and represent customer needs to engineering and product teams.

Leads managers and technical professionals delivering complex, data-intensive solutions. Provides hands-on technical leadership through T-SQL review, SQL Server architecture, query tuning, database performance optimization, troubleshooting, and solution design. Manages large projects, changing priorities, client relationships, and stakeholder communication while translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions for extremely large datasets.

Leads client-focused generative AI and data modernization architecture, translating business needs into scalable solutions using Google Cloud, Vertex AI, LLMs, vector databases, and modern data platforms. Advises stakeholders, develops AI evaluation and guardrail practices, guides experimentation and deployment, presents technical recommendations, supports proposals, and coaches teams through complex transformation programs.

Leads complex enterprise customer engagements as a technical authority for Databricks data and AI solutions. Drives architecture, platform adoption, consumption strategy, competitive positioning, and executive relationships. Designs large-scale data, streaming, migration, governance, and AI/ML solutions; orchestrates cross-functional teams; mentors other solutions architects; and contributes to technical thought leadership. Requires advanced coding, enterprise data architecture expertise, Databricks proficiency, strategic account leadership, and executive communication.

Owns enterprise solution architecture across applications, AI, data, integration, cloud, infrastructure, identity, and security. Develops current- and target-state architectures, capability roadmaps, standards, governance processes, and reusable patterns. Partners with business, engineering, security, data, and delivery teams to guide major initiatives, manage tradeoffs, and ensure conformance. Applies enterprise AI architecture, retrieval-augmented generation, agent workflows, and governed platform integrations to move concepts into production-ready solutions.

Supports pre-sales cybersecurity efforts by partnering with account executives, consulting with prospects, demonstrating and presenting security solutions, designing and scoping tailored architectures, and explaining eSentire’s differentiation. The role requires deep knowledge of cybersecurity technologies, IT infrastructure, security operations, and consultative selling. It supports sales targets within an assigned territory and requires travel of up to 50% locally plus national event travel.

Leads enterprise architecture, design, governance, and adoption of AI, machine learning, generative AI, analytics, RPA, intelligent automation, and data platform solutions. Translates business strategy into scalable, secure, compliant architectures across Azure, AWS, SaaS, and Microsoft technologies. Partners with business, engineering, security, governance, and operations teams; establishes reusable standards and patterns; guides delivery from concept through production; leads architecture reviews, prototyping, performance improvements, compliance, and technical mentoring.

Serves as a technical presales authority for assigned accounts, advising sales teams, customers, and partners on Elastic solutions. Responsibilities include customer discovery, solution architecture, technical demonstrations, value-based selling, partner enablement, sales-cycle support, event participation, collateral development, and communicating customer feedback to engineering and leadership. Requires travel within the region and occasional international travel.

Owns technical strategy and customer acquisition for communications service provider opportunities. Leads discovery, design sessions, solution architecture, demonstrations, proof-of-value engagements, workload testing, sizing, production readiness, and technical close. Partners with account executives, delivery, engineering, product, and strategic partners to design high-volume analytics and AI solutions across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments. Requires deep CSP, telecommunications, data warehousing, telemetry, cloud, and AI expertise, with travel up to 50%.

Senior Solutions Architect providing presales technical expertise for enterprise networking and security solutions. Advises customers and sales teams, gathers requirements, designs architectures, develops configurations and bills of materials, writes RFP responses, presents recommendations, and supports opportunity planning and customer remediation. Maintains OEM certifications and product knowledge while collaborating with manufacturers, service delivery teams, and customer technical stakeholders.

Architect generative AI solutions for Fortune 500 prospects and customers. Lead technical discovery, design scalable enterprise solutions using WRITER’s platform and APIs, develop proofs of concept and demonstrations, advise executive stakeholders, and guide enterprise AI architecture roadmaps. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to influence the roadmap, educate customers and partners, and drive successful adoption of AI capabilities.

Leads presales solution architecture for datacenter and professional services engagements. Develops Statements of Work, conducts technical assessments and discovery workshops, designs infrastructure and cloud modernization solutions, supports complex sales opportunities, and advises clients on VMware, networking, storage, security, continuity, and disaster recovery architectures. Builds service offerings, partners with sales and technical teams, cultivates client relationships, and provides thought leadership on emerging technologies.

Serves as a technical authority and trusted advisor for enterprise sales teams, customers, and partners. The Solutions Architect leads technical discovery, develops customer-specific architectures, demonstrates Elastic products, supports sales cycles, enables partners, creates collateral, and communicates customer feedback to engineering and leadership. The role requires strong presales experience, technical and customer relationship skills, influence, public speaking, continuous learning, and willingness to travel 30% regionally plus occasional international travel.

Deliver enterprise solutions and services for WEKA customers, leading product onboarding, installation, deployment, and production implementation. Manage deployment projects, assess risks, document solution architectures, develop automation and custom scripts, test deployments, and troubleshoot AI/HPC infrastructure in Linux and cloud or on-premises environments. Collaborate with sales, engineering, product, customers, and partners while providing technical guidance, knowledge transfer, and customer support.

Designs and implements cloud networking solutions, custom scripts, APIs, data visualizations, automated tools, and advanced platform extensions. Partners with SOC and incident response teams to improve security workflows and response times. Conducts customer learning sessions and develops customized data analysis using Python, JavaScript, and ExtraHop capabilities. Requires strong networking, application design, cloud technology, scripting, communication, and customer-facing experience.

Lead pre-sales solution design for large self-funded employer benefits clients. Analyze populations and savings projections, configure plan-design and engagement levers, assess carrier and TPA implementation constraints, present recommendations, and coordinate handoffs to Client Success. Partner closely with Sales, Product, Clinical Affairs, Operations, and Client Success while translating market feedback into implementation guides, technical requirements, and roadmap priorities.

Lead public-sector cybersecurity solution architecture for federal, state, and local government customers. Design Cyware deployments and integrations across SIEM, EDR, SOAR, TIP, cloud security, and information-sharing environments. Build reusable threat-intelligence and autonomous SOC use cases, advise on compliance and accreditation, support RFPs and strategic deals, and guide customers on CTI maturity, automation, governance, and security operations. Collaborate with Product and Engineering while enabling sales, delivery, and customer-success teams.

Lead and manage large finance and enterprise performance management (OneStream) transformation programs. Advise senior clients, drive process improvements, validate outcomes, design operational metrics, apply core accounting knowledge, oversee Agile project delivery, and develop high-performing, diverse teams to ensure project success.

Lead technical strategy for managed service provider opportunities from discovery through close. Design multi-tenant, automated, API-driven architectures; model service economics and margins; conduct competitive positioning and proofs of concept; and support partner co-selling. Build trusted relationships with MSP architects and executives, enable partner technical teams, contribute reusable architectures and program requirements, and represent the company at technical events. The role requires deep data platform, cloud, Kubernetes, storage, virtualization, cybersecurity, and commercial expertise.

Develop production-ready AI applications, agents, integrations, and workflows using Microsoft Cloud and AI platforms. Guide partners on architecture, software engineering, security, governance, privacy, Responsible AI, testing, CI/CD, observability, and operational readiness. Co-engineer solutions with external teams, build reusable accelerators, and help scale agentic and LLM-powered applications from concept through production while delivering measurable business outcomes.

Define and govern enterprise application architecture across quoting, catalog, and pricing portfolios. Design APIs, integrations, cloud-native and containerized solutions while ensuring security, scalability, performance, resilience, and cost efficiency. Establish architecture governance, documentation, disaster recovery, observability, and Infrastructure as Code practices. Partner with stakeholders and engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions, evaluate emerging technologies, lead proofs of concept, and mentor teams.

Defines and governs enterprise application architecture across quoting, catalog, and pricing portfolios. Designs APIs, integration patterns, cloud-native solutions, security practices, disaster recovery, observability, and performance strategies. Translates business requirements into scalable technical solutions, leads architecture governance, evaluates emerging technologies, mentors engineering teams, and communicates decisions and roadmaps to technical and business stakeholders.

Lead presales architecture and engineering for scalable data platforms using Microsoft Fabric and Azure. Responsibilities include client discovery, solution design, technical workshops, proposals, roadmaps, SOWs, demonstrations, and proof-of-concepts. Design data pipelines, warehouses, lakes, streaming architectures, and AI/ML infrastructure while advising on performance, governance, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code. Serve as a trusted technical advisor and Microsoft Fabric subject matter expert while collaborating with sales, governance, and AI architecture teams.