Principal Solution Architect – AI Accelerated Engineering

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $156k - $240.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💻 Solutions Engineer

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CDW

10,000+ employees

Founded 1984

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📚 Education

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2015-07

Consulting • Healthcare • Education

CDW is a leading provider of technology solutions, offering a comprehensive range of products and services to address the needs of enterprises, government, healthcare, and education sectors. They specialize in providing IT infrastructure services, managed services, and security solutions. CDW partners with top technology brands to deliver customized solutions that enhance business productivity and performance across various industries. With a strong focus on digital transformation, security, and cloud solutions, CDW supports businesses in navigating the complexities of modern IT environments. Their expertise spans several domains, including digital workspaces, cybersecurity, and enterprise solutions, making CDW a key partner in driving technological advancements.

📋 Description

• Partner with Client Executives and Solution Executives to qualify opportunities, lead technical discovery, and uncover underlying business problems • Facilitate envisioning sessions and workshops to define outcomes, priorities, and realistic roadmaps • Design end-to-end solutions and translate them into scope, estimates, staffing plans, business outcomes, and risk assessments • Architect and co-author HLDs, LOE estimates, proposals, SOWs, RFP responses, business cases, and client presentations • Serve as a core member of the team that closes sales • Structure engagement staffing and delivery approaches, including AI-accelerated delivery, to achieve target margins and client outcomes • Identify appropriate applications of AI and shape solutions accordingly • Present and defend solutions to client stakeholders and maintain continuity through delivery • Convert to billable delivery when appropriate, serving as technical lead and primary architecture authority • Build, onboard, and lead delivery teams, including large teams on multi-million, multi-year engagements • Set engineering standards, architecture guardrails, and AI-enabled development practices • Assume hands-on design or development responsibilities when needed • Manage technical risk, scope, and change with project management and clients • Serve as a primary client contact alongside Project and Delivery Managers • Use AI tools and agentic development workflows in software design, construction, and delivery • Lead teams building AI-enabled client solutions, including LLM-powered features and agent-based systems • Coach engineers and clients on practical AI adoption and contribute reusable patterns and accelerators • Build external thought leadership through white papers, case studies, conference talks, webinars, and partner events

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of software engineering and architecture experience, including hands-on development in at least one of Java, .NET (C#), Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript OR 14+ years of software engineering and architecture experience, including hands-on development in at least one of Java, .NET (C#), Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript • 1+ year experience in AI & Agentic Engineering, including LLM application design, model selection and evaluation, responsible AI and guardrails, AI coding assistants, agentic development tools, agent harness engineering, tool and MCP integration, context and memory management, sandboxing, permissions, human-in-the-loop controls, and evaluation harnesses • 5+ years of experience in a solution architect, technical lead, or similar role designing solutions spanning applications, integration, data, and cloud infrastructure • 3+ years of experience in a client-facing consulting or professional services role, including pre-sales discovery, solution design, estimation, proposal development, and closing • Demonstrated experience developing software using AI tools, ideally including agentic development workflows • Experience leading teams that designed and delivered client solutions incorporating AI capabilities • Proven ability to lead delivery teams through ambiguity, ramp teams up, and personally fill gaps • Exceptional communication skills with executive stakeholders and engineers • Hands-on depth in at least one and working fluency in another cloud platform: Microsoft Azure, AWS, and/or Google Cloud • Knowledge of Java, .NET (C#), Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, React Native, and Angular • Knowledge of microservices, event-driven and serverless architectures, domain-driven design, modernization and migration patterns, and non-functional requirements • Knowledge of REST and GraphQL API design, API gateways, messaging and streaming, iPaaS/integration platforms, OAuth 2.0, and OIDC • Experience with custom web and mobile applications, enterprise systems, SaaS/platform extensions, and legacy modernization • Knowledge of CI/CD, mobile CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, containers, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, observability, and DevSecOps • Knowledge of relational and NoSQL data modeling, data pipelines, ETL/ELT, modern data platforms, vector databases, and AI-related data governance • Test-driven development with a minimum of 90% unit test coverage on all code • Experience with unit, integration, end-to-end, contract, performance, security, and automated testing; validation of AI-generated code and AI-powered features • Willingness to travel 25% • Professional or specialty cloud certifications are a plus • Professional certifications in AI-enabled development are a plus • Experience building production agentic or LLM-based systems is a plus • Background in greenfield builds and legacy modernization or migration is a plus • Experience in quota-carrying or sales-incentivized structures is a plus • Familiarity with Agile delivery methods and consulting engagement models is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual bonus target of 10% subject to terms and conditions of plan • Benefits overview provided at https://cdw.benefit-info.com/ • AI-fluent, learning-oriented work culture • Equal opportunity employment

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