[Hiring] Solution Architect, Forward Deployed Architecture @Huron

Role Description

This person works alongside a Huron business team. They turn the business problem into a design the engineers can build, own that design end to end, build the hard parts alongside the engineers, and are the main link between the business and the pod.

Key Responsibilities

• Frame the problem.
• Run the early conversations with the business to frame the problem worth solving.
• Own the design.
• Produce the solution design and keep it current as the work evolves.
• Translate both ways.
• Between what the business needs and what the engineers build.
• Set the measures.
• Agree what success looks like and how it is measured, with the Engagement Manager and the engineers, before the build starts.
• Build the hard parts.
• Work alongside the engineers on the pieces of the build the design depends on.
• Bring domain depth.
• Keep the design right for the industry it serves.

Qualifications

• Understands RAG, agents, and evaluation well enough to design them.
• Process mapping and service design.
• Healthcare or higher education domain depth.
• AWS or Azure Solutions Architect, TOGAF, CBAP (BABOK), or Claude Certified Architect - Foundations.
• Comfortable in fast-paced, changing environments with shifting priorities and unclear problems.

Requirements

• 5 to 8 years in solution architecture, technical or experience design, or applied-AI advisory, including 1 to 2 years leading.
• Able to turn unclear problems into designs engineers can build.
• Strong writer and facilitator, credible with executives.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Based onshore (US or Canada) for the Healthcare work, with travel required as needed.

Benefits

• The estimated base salary for this job is $145,000 - $170,000 USD.
• The total estimated compensation range for this job is $166,750 - $218,750 USD, inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity.
• This job is eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs.