Top Senior Solutions Architect Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads client discovery, architecture, and delivery of enterprise Data and AI solutions from initial design through production deployment. Advises executives and technical stakeholders on platforms, tooling, trade-offs, and AI adoption; guides engineering teams, manages technical risks, creates architecture documentation, and mentors engineers. Requires deep cloud, data engineering, AI, consulting, and modern software delivery expertise.

Serves as a technical authority and trusted advisor for sales teams, customers, and partners. The role develops customer architectures, demonstrates Elastic solutions, supports sales cycles from discovery through technical win, enables partners, creates sales collateral, engages communities through events, and communicates customer needs to product and engineering teams. The position requires strong technical presales and customer relationship skills, with 30% regional travel and occasional international travel.

Leads the architecture and execution of large-scale enterprise migrations to Nutanix HCI. Assesses existing infrastructure, designs target environments, develops migration strategies, and guides engineering teams through deployment, testing, cutover, and stabilization. Responsibilities include cluster architecture, capacity planning, virtualization migration, disaster recovery, backup, performance optimization, risk mitigation, technical documentation, and client-facing design reviews. Serves as the senior escalation point for complex infrastructure, storage, networking, and virtualization issues.

Lead customer-facing technical discovery, solution architecture, proofs of concept, platform demonstrations, and architecture reviews for data engineering, analytics, and machine learning workloads. Develop account-level technical strategies with Account Executives, explain competitive differentiation, and build reusable notebooks, accelerators, and reference architectures. The role requires hands-on coding, cloud data platform expertise, distributed systems knowledge, strong presentation skills, and technical customer leadership.

Designs cloud-based integration and automation solutions using Celigo’s iPaaS platform. Leads customer and partner scoping sessions, translates business needs into technical architectures, writes requirements and design documents, and supports sales and implementation teams. Provides business process assessments, integration roadmaps, reusable solution designs, and consulting expertise across CRM, ERP, eCommerce, SaaS, and legacy systems. Acts as the customer advocate while helping shape product and delivery strategies.

Leads enterprise marketing automation consulting across discovery, pre-sales, architecture, delivery, and ongoing advisory. Designs AI-first Adobe Marketo Engage solutions, integrations, migrations, campaign architectures, lead management systems, and CRM-connected ecosystems. Develops proposals, business cases, proofs of concept, and implementation plans; mentors practitioners; supports practice growth and thought leadership; and manages strategic client relationships and complex engagements.

Develop customer engagement strategies, advise customers on data analytics architecture and Databricks adoption, lead complex proofs of concept, workshops, and technical engagements, and influence executives throughout the technical sales lifecycle. Coach junior Solutions Architects, collaborate with account executives and cloud ecosystem partners, create customer-facing collateral, and provide customized solutions for complex data challenges. Travel may reach 30%.

Research and develop GPU-acceleration techniques for high-performance databases, ETL, and data analytics applications. Analyze data-intensive workloads, optimize algorithms, memory management, and CUDA kernels, and investigate CPU/GPU bottlenecks. Collaborate with research, hardware, software, and industry teams to influence next-generation architectures, programming models, and data-processing solutions.

Designs, builds, governs, secures, and optimizes Magna’s Azure and hybrid cloud environment. Partners with development and infrastructure teams on IaaS, PaaS, container, serverless, identity, networking, and connectivity architectures. Owns cloud governance, stability, cost management, monitoring, documentation, change management, and platform updates. Supports Microsoft 365 adoption, resolves cross-team issues, communicates service performance, and develops IT staff.

Lead customer-facing architecture and delivery of secure, scalable Azure cloud, data, AI, and agent solutions from proof of concept through production. Engage technical and business leaders, guide governance, security, reliability, performance, and cost optimization, resolve delivery blockers, and drive customer adoption. Develop reusable architectures and accelerators, deliver technical workshops, support partners, generate cloud pipeline, and share expertise across Azure AI Foundry, Fabric, Databricks, GitHub, databases, application platforms, and DevOps.

Own enterprise customer engagements from discovery through implementation, adoption, and go-live. Design BigPanda solutions, integrations, workflows, data models, and automations; write scripts and tooling; troubleshoot complex implementation challenges; advise technical stakeholders; create reusable architecture patterns; and mentor Solutions Architects. The role requires strong experience with observability, ITSM, incident response, enterprise implementations, coding, architecture, documentation, and consultative communication.

Leads pre-sales identity architecture and consulting engagements for enterprise customers. Designs IAM strategies, maturity assessments, transformation roadmaps, and secure solutions spanning authentication, authorization, IGA, PAM, NHI, and related technologies. Conducts discovery sessions, workshops, assessments, technical presentations, vendor evaluations, and proposal development while partnering with sales and delivery teams. Provides executive and technical guidance, supports identity modernization and migrations, develops reusable offerings, and mentors team members.

Provides technical leadership and pre-sales guidance for Databricks Customer Lake implementations. Designs customer data, CDP, Lakehouse, identity resolution, audience activation, personalization, and agentic AI solutions; leads executive engagements, workshops, demos, POCs, and technical collateral. Partners with account teams, GSIs, and consulting organizations to drive adoption, influences product roadmaps, handles tier-three escalations, improves qualification processes, and mentors field teams.

Leads technical pre-sales strategy for web performance products, designing cloud and edge solutions for complex customer requirements. Acts as a technical escalation point, supports proofs of concept, provides web performance subject-matter expertise, and influences product roadmaps. Builds customer relationships through consultative selling and presents technical and business concepts to diverse audiences.

Lead PIM and PXM strategy and solution architecture for client product activation initiatives. Design product content lifecycles, data models, governance frameworks, workflows, and syndication strategies. Facilitate discovery workshops, translate business needs into implementation plans, guide merchandising and cross-functional stakeholders, and mentor delivery teams. The role combines technical architecture, business consulting, product data expertise, and leadership across concurrent transformation projects.

Configure and architect SAP MM, SCM, Logistics Execution, Source to Pay, and S/4HANA solutions. The role integrates SAP with warehouse, supply chain, and non-SAP systems using IDocs, EDI, APIs, and file transfers. Responsibilities include gathering requirements, creating functional specifications, supporting implementations, testing, deployment, training, project estimation, and system demonstrations. The analyst collaborates with SAP SD, FI, EWM, TMS, business, and technology teams.

Architects cloud, AI, and cybersecurity solutions with Global Systems Integrators, developing joint offerings, reference architectures, enablement programs, and technical thought leadership. Advises GSI executives and practice leaders on multi-cloud security, CNAPP, DSPM, AI-SPM, runtime protection, and SecOps integrations. Translates ecosystem requirements into product feedback and partners with R&D to scale Wiz deployments across enterprise environments.

Leads the architecture, development, deployment, and optimization of enterprise AI solutions combining Neo4j knowledge graphs, LLMs, and generative AI frameworks. Advises strategic customers, translates business needs into scalable production applications, guides stakeholder alignment, and oversees technical delivery. Develops production-level code, integrates customer systems, and applies cloud-native deployment practices. Shares expertise through workshops, training, documentation, and thought leadership while influencing product direction and mentoring teams.

Lead customer discovery and pre-sales engagements for Spacetime, Aalyria’s temporospatial software-defined networking platform. Design solution architectures, technical proposals, presentations, demonstrations, and proofs of concept. Guide customer pilots and technical validation, translate complex capabilities into business value, support business-case development, and provide technical recommendations. Collaborate with sales and product teams, influence the roadmap through market feedback, and create customer-facing technical content.

Leads customer-facing AWS solution architecture and technical pre-sales for cloud migration and modernization engagements. Responsibilities include designing secure, multi-account and multi-region AWS environments; scoping workshops; developing proposals, SOWs, RFP responses, staffing models, and cost estimates; guiding sales cycles; and handing solutions to delivery teams. The role also establishes architecture methodologies, IaC and CI/CD practices, and manages team expertise and quality standards.

The Senior Solutions Architect designs and optimizes mission-critical systems, ensuring high availability and performance while integrating infrastructure and applications.

Develop advanced GUI, trigger scripts, REST API integrations, custom Python and JavaScript tools, data visualizations, and automated solutions for customers. Analyze network topologies and application stacks, acquire and analyze network data, profile industry applications, conduct root cause analysis, create technical collateral, advise customers, and deliver hands-on learning sessions.

The Sr. Solutions Architect - SDDC is responsible for implementing data center infrastructure automation, conducting design and deployment tasks, mentoring team consultants, and ensuring seamless integration with existing systems.

Lead operation, reliability, and continuous improvement of cloud data platforms (streaming, lakes, warehouses). Provide architecture and hands-on operational support, collaborate cross-functionally, drive automation, mentor engineers, and act as trusted advisor for enterprise clients.

Architects enterprise digital commerce transformations using Adobe Commerce Cloud, Adobe Commerce Optimizer, App Builder, API Mesh, and AI technologies. Designs composable, headless, agentic, and SaaS-modernized commerce ecosystems; guides migrations from monolithic or PaaS architectures; develops integration patterns for AI search, recommendations, support, inventory, and pricing; and establishes governance for secure, ethical AI adoption. The role also uses AI and LLM tools for system modeling, architecture blueprints, code and API audits, data-flow mapping, and legacy modernization strategies.