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Solution Architect | Pre-Sales

Solution Architect | Pre-Sales

InfinitiveChicago, IL, United States
14 hours ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

About Infinitive

Infinitive is a data & AI consultancy that enables global brands to deliver results through insights innovation and efficiency. We possess deep industry and technology expertise to drive and sustain adoption of new capabilities. We match our people and personalities to our clients culture while bringing the right mix of talent and skills to enable high return on investment.

Infinitive has been named Best Small Firms to Work For by Consulting Magazine six times and has also been named a Washington Post Top Workplace Washington Business Journal Best Places to Work and Virginia Business Best Places to Work.

About the Role

Infinitive is seeking a dynamic Solution Architect with a strong blend of technical expertise consultative selling skills and business acumen to lead pre-sales and solutioning efforts across our Data & AI practice.

This role bridges the gap between business development and delivery helping clients envision how modern data architectures AI-driven platforms and cloud-native integration frameworks can drive measurable business outcomes. Youll collaborate with sales and account teams to shape opportunities design solutions and ensure seamless alignment between pre-sales commitments and project delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Pre-Sales Solutioning & Client Engagement

  • Partner with sales and account teams to identify opportunities define solution architectures and develop compelling proposals for consulting engagements.
  • Lead discovery sessions assess client environments and translate business needs into actionable Data & AI solution architectures and roadmaps.
  • Deliver presentations demos and proofs of concept (POCs) that demonstrate Infinitives Data & AI capabilities.
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop pricing models statements of work (SOWs) and technical content for RFP responses
  • Support the development scoping and sale of both Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) and Time & Material (T&M) consulting engagements.
  • Build trusted advisor relationships with client executives influencing data AI and technology strategy.

Architecture & Design Leadership

  • Architect scalable secure and high-performance cloud-based Data & AI solutions in Azure AWS and GCP utilizing Databricks streaming and batch data pipelines Spark PySpark Python and API frameworks with a heavy emphasis onmodernizing data engineering practices to enable analytical and machine learning usages.
  • Design architectures spanning data lakehouses warehouses real-time analytics and AI / ML integration.
  • Ensure proposed solutions align with enterprise standards data governance policies and delivery capabilities.
  • Collaboration & Cross-Functional Leadership

  • Act as a technical bridge between sales delivery and client architecture teams throughout the sales cycle.
  • Support go-to-market strategy development by identifying repeatable Data & AI solution patterns and reusable delivery assets.
  • Mentor and guide engineers and consultants on best practices for solution design client engagement and value articulation.
  • Innovation & Market Development

  • Evaluate emerging technologies (AI / ML GenAI streaming analytics data mesh etc.) to evolve Infinitives Data & AI offerings.
  • Contribute thought leadership case studies and webinars to reinforce Infinitives market credibility.
  • Stay current on trends in data platforms data engineering zero-trust security data governance and AI ethics and compliance.
  • Required Qualifications

  • Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Information Systems or a related technical field.
  • 7 years of combined experience in data architecture AI / ML solutioning system integration or solution engineering roles.
  • Proven experience selling or supporting the sale of consulting and professional services including scoping estimating and solution shaping.
  • Demonstrated success supporting pre-sales or technical sales cycles in a consulting SaaS or enterprise technology environment.
  • Deep expertise with cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) Databricks data modeling Kafka Spark Python SQL / NoSQL and API-based integration.
  • Strong understanding of event-driven architectures microservices data governance and AI / ML frameworks.
  • Preferred Certifications

  • Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate or Professional.
  • Databricks Certified Machine Learning Professional.
  • TOGAF ITIL or SAFe Architect certification.
  • Pre-Sales or Sales Engineering Accreditation (e.g. AWS Partner Ambassador Google Cloud Sales Engineer Databricks Sales Badges).
  • Soft Skills

  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills with both technical and executive audiences.
  • Ability to articulate business value and ROI for Data & AI consulting solutions.
  • Strong collaboration and influence across sales delivery and executive stakeholders.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset and enthusiasm for helping grow a high-performing Data & AI consulting practice.
  • Key Skills

    Business Process,VMware,Cloud,HTML5,Windows,Project managements,AWS,Infrastructure,Web Services,JQuery,Java,Computer Engineering,Solutions design,Technical Solutions,Analytics

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    Full-Time

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