The Platform Architect will serve as a client-facing technical strategist and solution designer, responsible for architecting complex enterprise solutions. This role combines deep technical expertise with strong pre-sales and consultative skills to elicit requirements, drive solution design, align to business objectives, build customer confidence, and position successful delivery.
Role Summary- Drive pre-sales activities in collaboration with sales teams to perform technical discovery, identify client needs, and craft detailed solution designs and proposals.
- Build and maintain independent relationships with clients and prospects.
- Design and present architectures for on-prem, cloud, or hybrid solutions involving domain expertise in infrastructure, data, and AI.
- Develop scalable virtualization and containerization strategies to support modernization and multi-cloud deployments.
- Integrate data management, analytics, and AI/ML capabilities into platform architectures to drive business outcomes.
- Lead technical presentations and demonstrations to customers, clearly articulating the value of proposed solutions.
- Evaluate and recommend hardware and software technologies, leveraging vendor relationships to shape optimal solutions.
- Support proposal development, RFP responses, and pricing strategies from an architectural perspective.
- Provide technical assurance during implementation and handoff to delivery teams, ensuring design integrity.
- Produce architecture documentation, high-level designs, and bill of materials.
- Stay current with emerging technology trends in infrastructure, cloud, data, and AI to guide clients toward innovative solutions.
Requirements- 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, systems integration, or platform engineering.
- Proven track record in pre-sales architecture or technical consulting within a systems integrator or vendor environment.
- Expertise in on-prem infrastructure architecture (compute, storage, networking) and leading cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Strong proficiency in virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
- Experience designing and integrating data platforms, analytics tools, and AI/ML frameworks into enterprise systems.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and customer engagement skills with the ability to influence technical and executive audiences.
- Certifications in relevant technologies such as AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, VMware Certified Design Expert, or Kubernetes certifications are highly advantageous.
- Understanding of enterprise security principles, compliance requirements, and solution governance.
Benefits- Salary commensurate with years' of experience, technical expertise and geographic location.
- Salary range: $170,000 to $220,000.
- Performance bonuses.
- Benefits package that includes 100% paid medical, dental and vision for the employee.
- 401(k) with employer match.
- Strong company culture.
- Flexible PTO policy.
- Flexible working arrangements.
- Annual company overnight retreat
