Solution Architect Principal (Strategic, AI-Enabled & Value-Led Pursuits)
ThoughtWorksabout 3 hours ago
Toronto, Canada
Staff+
H1B Sponsor
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with business development teams to assess new opportunities.
- Identify how AI and automation can create differentiated value.
- Lead early client discovery conversations to define business challenges.
- Shape the technology approach and engagement vision before proposal development.
- Ensure opportunities align with client business value and long-term partnership potential.
- Lead the solution architecture stream for high-value pursuits.
- Develop solution vision artifacts and conceptual architectures.
- Align solution design with client strategic goals and success criteria.
- Integrate AI-based accelerators and automation frameworks into proposals.
- Articulate win-themes that reinforce business value and delivery confidence.
- Translate client strategy into actionable architectural blueprints.
- Quantify architectural decisions in terms of business outcomes.
- Partner with teams to validate solution feasibility through prototypes.
- Champion human-in-the-loop design principles.
- Define reference architectures spanning various capabilities.
- Lead the technical narrative within proposals and executive presentations.
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear executive narratives.
- Collaborate with finance and delivery leads to align solution assumptions.
- Present and defend solution approaches in executive forums.
- Ensure architecture intent translates into delivery through handover artifacts.
- Implement mechanisms to monitor AI model performance and compliance.
- Conduct retrospectives to improve AI and architecture frameworks.
Requirements
- Experience designing and delivering complex technology solutions.
- Experience leading solution architecture for large client pursuits.
- Deep experience with multi-disciplinary technology solutions across cloud and data.
- Demonstrated ability to architect and scale AI-enabled systems.
- Familiarity with AI toolchains and their application in delivery environments.
- Strong ability to connect business outcomes to architecture choices.
- Comfortable leveraging AI-assisted tools for architecture exploration.
- Hands-on familiarity with modern cloud ecosystems.
Tech Stack
AWSAzureGoogle Cloud Platform
Categories
AI & MLData EngineeringData ScienceFull Stack