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We hire curious individuals for whom learning is a passion. We lean into our mission: We Care. We Collaborate. We Deliver.\nAt every level, we champion leaders who live our values of integrity, inclusion, innovation, and commitment to success. Imagining our work as a journey, we believe integrity guides our way, inclusion moves us forward together, innovation creates new destinations, and our commitment to success empowers us to deliver on our vision to be the most trusted global consulting firm.\nWhere We Need You\nProtiviti is looking for a Technology Consulting Associate Director to join our growing Infrastructure, Cloud, and Security Engineering team.\nWhat You Can Expect\nAs an Associate Director, you’ll lead complex engagements, strengthen strategic client relationships, and manage technology risk. You’ll develop practical solutions using analytics, automation, and modern tools while ensuring high-quality delivery.\nYou’ll identify new business, represent Protiviti in the market, and mentor teams while overseeing successful project delivery.\nWe are seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to provide technical and commercial leadership for our AWS Platform Engineering practice. You will set architectural direction across strategic engagements, guide complex decisions, and step into the highest-risk technical challenges.\nOperating beyond a single engagement, you will establish reusable delivery standards, develop engineers and architects, build trusted senior-client relationships, and connect delivery excellence to account growth. The role maintains deep technical credibility and carries a formal sales quota.\nWhat Will Help You Be Successful\nYou enjoy leading AWS architecture and delivery. \nYou are passionate about building trusted relationships with C-level executives and providing exceptional experiences that translate to additional project work. \nYou have an inherent interest in project management and team leadership. \nYou promote a positive team culture that fosters open communication among all engagement team members. \nYou create development opportunities for others, including participating in the creation and rollout of training, and ways for your team to improve our clients and communities. \nYou enjoy discovering prospective project work with current and potential clients through networking, knowledge-building, and client interactions. \nYou excel at identifying opportunities to integrate product solutions and resources to improve client service capabilities. \nYou view client challenges as opportunities to add value and can translate that into new project proposals and sales. \nYou are seen as a valued contributor to thought leadership and encourage knowledge-sharing and collaboration across teams. \nYou have interest in managing a diverse portfolio of clients across multiple industries \nWhat Success Looks Like in the First Year\nIs recognized internally and by strategic clients as a senior authority on AWS platform engineering. \nImproves the consistency, quality, and scalability of AWS delivery across the practice. \nDevelops stronger Solutions Architects, Senior Cloud Engineers, and Cloud Engineers through active technical leadership. \nEstablishes reusable architectures, engineering standards, and delivery approaches adopted across multiple engagements. \nBuilds trusted senior-client relationships that result in meaningful follow-on opportunities. \nAchieves commercial expectations while maintaining strong client outcomes and technical integrity. \nStrengthens the connection between AWS alliance activity, pre-sales solutioning, and successful delivery execution. \nDo Your Talents Include the Following?\nDemonstrated experience with:\nDeep and broad expertise designing, implementing, and governing enterprise AWS environments. \nDemonstrated ability to influence architecture and technology strategy across large or complex organizations. \nExperience leading multiple complex cloud engagements or portfolios of technical work. \nStrong architecture capability across infrastructure, networking, security, automation, resilience, governance, operations, and migration. \nAbility to advise senior executives while retaining credibility with deeply technical engineering teams. \nSignificant experience shaping and estimating complex cloud transformation engagements. \nDemonstrated ability to identify client needs and translate them into valuable consulting and engineering engagements. \nExperience developing technical leaders and raising engineering standards across an organization. \nStrong understanding of consulting economics, delivery risk, scope management, and commercial decision making. \nExperience in consulting, professional services, or systems integration environments strongly preferred. \nAmazon Bedrock (agents, knowledge bases, guardrails) \nAWS Step Functions or similar orchestration services \nAPI design and integration patterns (REST, event-driven) \nData architecture (how the agent knowledge base ingests and indexes procurement/logistics data) \nInfrastructure as Code (CDK or CloudFormation) \nIAM, networking, VPC design for the customer's AWS environment \nFamiliarity with ERP integration patterns (JDE, Oracle FBDI export format) - does not need to be an ERP specialist, but needs to design the handoff \nAbility to translate business process (procurement workflow) into technical architecture \nHas led agentic AI / GenAI builds before, not just chatbots \nProvide senior technical leadership across the most strategic and complex AWS client engagements. \nEstablish architecture direction and engineering standards for AWS Platform Engineering. \nAdvise client CIO, CTO, CISO, architecture, infrastructure, and engineering leaders on cloud strategy and major AWS technology decisions. \nGuide Solutions Architects and Senior Cloud Engineers through complex architecture and delivery challenges. \nReview and influence major designs involving AWS infrastructure, networking, security, resilience, migration, modernization, automation, and operating models. \nIntervene directly in high-risk or highly complex delivery situations where senior technical leadership is required. \nEnsure major engagements align with client outcomes, engineering quality standards, security expectations, and sustainable operating models. \nDevelop reusable reference architectures, engineering frameworks, accelerators, and intellectual property. \nBuild technical capability across the AWS delivery organization through mentoring, coaching, design reviews, and knowledge sharing. \nPartner closely with AWS alliance and pre-sales leaders to shape strategic opportunities. \nTranslate client needs and delivery insights into new service offerings and solution patterns. \nOwn or materially contribute to technical solutioning, estimation, executive presentations, proposals, and statements of work for major opportunities. \nDevelop trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders that lead to continued advisory and engineering opportunities. \nMaintain accountability for an assigned sales quota and contribute directly to pipeline development and conversion. \nIdentify opportunities based on meaningful client needs rather than transactional selling. \nRepresent the AWS Platform Engineering practice with AWS technical teams, strategic clients, and industry stakeholders. \nDemonstrate senior consulting leadership through judgment, influence, executive communication, collaborative decision making, and accountability for strategic outcomes. \nYour Educational and Professional Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., MIS, IS, Comp Sci., etc.). \n9+ years working in professional services or industry. \nProfessional Certification \nRequired: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate \nPreferred: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional & AWS Certified Security - Specialty \nOur Hybrid Workplace\nProtiviti practices a hybrid model, which is a combination of working in person with a purpose and working remotely. This model creates meaningful experiences for our people and our clients while offering a flexible environment. The ratio of remote to in-person requirements vary by client, project, team, and other business factors. Our people work both in-person in local Protiviti offices and on client sites, which can include local or out-of-state travel based on our projects and client requests and commitments.\nProtiviti is not registered to hire or employ personnel in the following states - West Virginia, Alaska.\nStarting salary is based on a full-time equivalent schedule. Placement in the range is dependent upon experience, skills and geographic work location. Below is the salary range for this job.\n$163,000.00 - $278,000.00Our annual bonus plan provides eligible employees additional cash and/or discretionary stock compensation opportunities. Below is the bonus target opportunity for this job.\n16%The total cash range is estimated from the sum of the base salary range plus the bonus target opportunity. Below is the estimated total cash range for this job.\n$189,080.00 - $322,480.00Employees are eligible for medical, dental, and vision coverages, FSA and HSA healthcare accounts, life and accident insurance, adoption and fertility assistance, paid parental leave up to 10 weeks, and short/long term disability. We offer eligible employees a company 401(k) savings and investment plan with an employer match of 50% on the first 6% of your contributions. We provide Choice Time Off (CTO) for vacation, personal needs, and sick time. The amount of (CTO) varies based on years of service. New hires receive up to 20 days of CTO per calendar year. Protiviti also recognizes up to 11 paid holidays each calendar year.\nLearn more about the variety of rewards we offer at Protiviti at https://www.protiviti.com/sites/default/files/2026-01/2026_u.s._benefit_highlights.pdf.\nAny benefits outlined are part of our reward offerings for full-time employees in the U.S. Your Open Enrollment materials, insurance contracts, plan documents and Summary Plan Descriptions together comprise the official plan document which legally governs the administration of your benefit plans. Protiviti reserves the right to terminate or amend your benefit plans in any way and at any time.\nProtiviti is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/Disability/Veteran\nAs part of Protiviti’s employment process, any offer of employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.\nProtiviti is committed to being an equal employment employer offering opportunities to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to apply for a position, please contact us by sending an email to  or call 1.855.744.6947 for assistance.\nIn your email please include the following:\nThe specific accommodation requested to complete the employment application.\n\nThe location(s) (city, state) to which you would like to apply.\n\nFor positions located in San Francisco, CA: Protiviti will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.\nFor positions located in Los Angeles County, CA: Protiviti will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.\nProtiviti is not registered to hire or employ personnel in the following states - West Virginia, Alaska.\nProtiviti is not licensed or registered as a public accounting firm and does not issue opinions on f...","description_format":"text","description_chars":12079,"description_truncated":true,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":9,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Information Technology","Professional Services","RegTech, AML & Compliance","Management Consulting"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-08T00:05:18Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 7 · green card filings: 15","filings_12m":7,"filings_prev_12m":11,"green_card_filings_12m":15,"median_offered_wage_usd":148864,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":1}],"liveness":{"score":99,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.992,"p_room":1,"age_days":10,"expected_fill_days":41,"reasons":["conf:3","wave","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":322480,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/protiviti-senior-solutions-architect-associate-director-3","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/protiviti-senior-solutions-architect-associate-director-3.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-19T04:51:58Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2854,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-20T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1275},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1275"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fprotiviti-senior-solutions-architect-associate-director-3"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fprotiviti-senior-solutions-architect-associate-director-3"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fprotiviti-senior-solutions-architect-associate-director-3"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/protiviti-senior-solutions-architect-associate-director-3\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fprotiviti-senior-solutions-architect-associate-director-3"}]}