Principal Strategy Architect – AI, EA

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Break down complex and unclear client issues into structured frameworks and actionable recommendations.

• Analyze client landscapes, pinpoint gaps and opportunities, assess maturity, and convert findings into strategic guidance.

• Link enterprise strategy to execution through architecture, roadmaps, and sequenced plans.

• Transform engagements into defined next steps, roadmaps, artifacts, or scoped statements of work.

• Conduct C-suite and board-level discussions with credibility and thorough preparation.

• Design and facilitate executive alignment, strategy, and working workshops that yield decisions and prioritized next steps.

• Provide independent, defensible perspectives grounded in domain expertise.

• Implement Enterprise Architecture frameworks in a practical manner.

• Evaluate current-state architecture and outline target-state architecture with a feasible transition plan.

• Create capability models, value stream maps, integration diagrams, and designs for operating models.

• Design target-state architectures across application, data, integration, and AI layers.

• Relate architecture decisions to financial and operational impacts.

• Utilize modern architecture patterns including cloud-native design, API-led integration, event-driven architecture, and AI-ready infrastructure.

• Design and architect scalable AI-enabled enterprise solutions.

• Identify and prioritize AI use cases based on feasibility, ROI, and strategic alignment.

• Assess foundation model providers, enterprise AI platforms, and MLOps infrastructure; provide guidance on build versus buy versus partner decisions.

• Consult on RAG, agentic workflows, model fine-tuning, AI-ready data infrastructure, AI governance, responsible AI, risk, regulation, ethics, change, and adoption.

• Expand accounts, identify revenue opportunities, and initiate discussions for new work.

• Independently draft statements of work and scope and price engagements.

• Navigate enterprise sales discussions and contribute to proposals and go-to-market strategies.

• Mentor junior consultants and architects through feedback and knowledge sharing.

• Lead high-performing engagement teams and ensure successful client outcomes.

• Contribute to offering development, internal knowledge sharing, and capability frameworks.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years in management consulting, strategic IT consulting, enterprise architecture, or similar senior roles.

• Comprehensive experience across strategy, architecture, technology, and client-facing consulting.

• Management consulting experience is preferred.

• Extensive, practical experience in enterprise and solution architecture.

• Proven success at Principal or equivalent level, encompassing ownership of client relationships, leadership of engagements, and account growth.

• Self-motivated individual capable of driving next steps independently.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to tailor messages to various audiences.

• Capability to collaborate across delivery, sales, practice leadership, and client stakeholders.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or a related field is mandatory.

• An advanced degree (MBA, Master's) is highly preferred.

• Proficiency in Enterprise Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or similar.

• Broad technological expertise in one or more of data platforms, cloud infrastructure, systems integration, process architecture, or AI/ML platforms.

• Fluency in enterprise AI architecture, covering RAG, agentic workflows, model fine-tuning tradeoffs, and AI-ready data infrastructure.

• Solid understanding of AWS, Azure, or GCP and cloud-native data, analytics, and AI services.

• In-person presence is essential for key workshops, assessments, and client solutioning sessions.

• Preferred certifications include TOGAF or equivalent, Archimate, FEAF/DoDAF, AI practitioner or platform certifications, ITIL 4 Strategic Leader, Lean Six Sigma, Prosci Change Management, CBAP, or BIZBOK.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage.

• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital insurance.

• 401(k) Retirement Plan with pre-tax and Roth post-tax contribution options.

• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life and AD&D for employees and dependents).

• Short and Long-Term Disability benefits.

• Health Spending Account (HSA).

• Transportation Benefits.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation, or Sick Leave).

• Additional earnings may be available through annual bonuses and profit sharing.

• This is a fully remote position.