Technical Consulting Manager – Lead Solutions Architect

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

📋 Description

• Lead consulting projects and collaborate with client stakeholders to assess, design, and enhance intricate software and infrastructure architectures.

• Serve as the Engagement & Technical Lead for small, efficient consulting teams.

• Delegate tasks, evaluate deliverables, integrate findings into cohesive outputs, and ensure projects remain within scope and timeline.

• Conduct architectural explorations, scalability assessments, evaluations of technical debt, and infrastructure reviews.

• Analyze Azure and hybrid environments for optimization.

• Act as a reliable technical advisor to client leadership and engineering teams.

• Develop actionable modernization strategies.

• Collaborate within agile, cross-functional teams alongside clients.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in leading technical workstreams and managing small consulting teams.

• Extensive background in evaluating and designing distributed software architectures, high-throughput telemetry/data pipelines, microservices, API gateways, and message-driven systems.

• Proven capability to identify architectural and infrastructure limitations and assess readiness for rapid growth.

• Practical experience with Microsoft Azure, encompassing App Gateways, VNet topology, load balancers, compute resources, and security measures.

• Familiarity with on-premises/colocation virtualization platforms such as Linux, Proxmox, VMware, and KVM.

• Skill in analyzing multi-stack codebases and system architectures for architectural dependencies, fragile integration points, and structural vulnerabilities.

• Experience in creating executive-level technical documentation, modernization roadmaps, and architecture/topology diagrams utilizing C4 model, Visio, or Lucidchart.

• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, Bicep, and ARM templates.

• Understanding of Docker and contemporary CI/CD pipelines including Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English.

• Experience in facilitating SME discovery sessions, managing client interactions and executive expectations, and presenting findings to C-level executives.

• Capability to mentor technical analysts and engineers while ensuring the quality of deliverables.

• Ability to translate engineering risks into business consequences and prioritize necessary remediation and investments.

• Highly organized, proactive, resilient, and adept at navigating uncertainty and tight deadlines.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer dedicated to diversity and inclusion.

• Full-time employment.