Principal Solution Architect - AI Accelerated Engineering
CDW Corporation4 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$156k - $241k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with Client Executives and Solution Executives on opportunity qualification, technical discovery, workshops, solution design, proposals, estimates, statements of work, RFP responses, and client presentations.
- Design end-to-end solutions spanning applications, integrations, data, cloud infrastructure, AI capabilities, and delivery strategy.
- Structure staffing plans and delivery approaches to support client outcomes and target engagement margins.
- Transition into billable delivery leadership when appropriate, serving as technical lead and primary architecture authority.
- Build, onboard, and lead delivery teams, including large teams on multi-million-dollar, multi-year engagements.
- Set engineering standards, architecture guardrails, AI-enabled development practices, and quality expectations.
- Lead teams delivering LLM-powered and agent-based systems with attention to security, quality, evaluation, observability, guardrails, and responsible use.
- Manage technical risk, scope, change, delivery quality, and client relationships with project and delivery managers.
- Provide hands-on design or development support during team ramp-up and fill technical gaps as needed.
- Coach engineers and clients on AI adoption and contribute reusable patterns, accelerators, white papers, case studies, conference talks, webinars, and partner-event content.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of software engineering and architecture experience, including hands-on development in Java, .NET (C#), Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript, or 14+ years of equivalent software engineering and architecture experience.
- At least 1 year of AI and agentic engineering experience, including LLM application design, RAG, tool use, agents, orchestration, model selection and evaluation, responsible AI, guardrails, AI coding assistants, and agentic development tools.
- Experience with agent harness engineering, including tool and MCP integration, context and memory management, sandboxing, permissions, human-in-the-loop controls, and evaluation harnesses.
- At least 5 years in a solution architect, technical lead, or similar role designing solutions across applications, integration, data, and cloud infrastructure.
- At least 3 years in client-facing consulting or professional services, including pre-sales discovery, solution design, estimation, proposal development, and closing.
- Demonstrated experience developing software with AI tools and leading teams that deliver AI-enabled client solutions.
- Hands-on depth in at least one and working fluency in another across cloud platforms, programming languages, frameworks, architecture, APIs, integration, DevOps tooling, data platforms, testing, and QA.
- Experience with cloud, infrastructure, application, integration, data, testing, and security design, including non-functional requirements such as scale, resilience, security, and cost.
- Ability to lead delivery teams through ambiguity, engage executive stakeholders and engineers, challenge client assumptions respectfully, and provide strong technical judgment.
- Willingness to travel 25%.
- Professional cloud or AI certifications, production agentic or LLM system experience, greenfield and legacy modernization experience, quota-carrying experience, and familiarity with consulting engagement models are preferred.
Benefits
- Base pay range is $156,000–$240,800 depending on experience and skill set, with a 10% annual bonus target subject to plan terms and conditions.
- Benefits are provided through CDW’s benefits program.
- The role requires approximately 25% travel.
- CDW offers an equitable, transparent, respectful, and collaborative work environment and supports responsible AI adoption.
Tech Stack
AngularAnsibleApache KafkaAWSAzureC#CypressDatabricksGitHub ActionsGoogle CloudGraphQLJavaJavaScriptJestJUnitKubernetes.NETNUnitOpenShiftpytestPythonReactReact NativeSnowflakeSonarQubeTerraformTypeScript
Categories
Forward DeployedSolutions Engineering
About CDW Corporation
CDW Corporation is an IT solutions provider and reseller that designs, supplies, and manages hardware, software, cloud, and cybersecurity for businesses, government, education, and healthcare. Its model combines product resale from major vendors with consulting, managed services, and lifecycle support across data center, networking, and end‑user computing. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Vernon Hills, Illinois, CDW is publicly traded on NASDAQ.