Solution Architect, Forward Deployed Architecture (AI Capability Center)

Huron is redefining what a global consulting organization can be. Advancing new ideas every day to build even stronger clients, individuals and communities. We’re helping our clients find new ways to drive growth, enhance business performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. And, we’re developing strategies and implementing solutions that enable the transformative change they need to own their future.

As a member of the Huron corporate team, you’ll help to evolve our business model to stay ahead of market forces, industry trends and client needs. Our accounting, finance, human resources, IT, legal, marketing and facilities management professionals work collaboratively to support Huron’s collective strategies and enable real transformation to produce sustainable business results.

Join our team and create your future.

This person works alongside a Huron business team. They turn the business problem into an AI solution design on Microsoft Azure that the engineers can build. They own that design end to end, build the hard parts alongside the engineers, and are the main link between the business and the pod.

Key Responsibilities

• Frame the problem. Run the early conversations with the business to frame the problem worth solving and decide where AI fits and where it does not.
• Own the design. Produce the solution architecture on Azure, covering models, retrieval, agents, data, identity, networking, and security. Keep it current as the work evolves.
• Design for production. Make the design secure, governed, observable, and cost-aware from the start, in line with the Azure Well-Architected Framework and Huron security and governance standards.
• Translate both ways. Between what the business needs and what the engineers build.
• Set the measures. Agree what success looks like and how it is measured, including model and agent evaluation, with the Engagement Manager and the engineers before the build starts.
• Build the hard parts. Work alongside the engineers on the pieces of the build the design depends on, including infrastructure as code, retrieval pipelines, and agent orchestration.
• Bring domain depth. Keep the design right for the industry it serves.

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• Claude Certified Architect - Foundations.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate.
• Hands-on experience with Azure AI services, including Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, and Azure AI Foundry, and with Anthropic Claude models.
• Understands RAG, agents, and evaluation well enough to design and build them.
• Infrastructure as code with Bicep or Terraform, and CI/CD on Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Healthcare or higher education domain depth, including work with regulated data.
• Comfortable in fast-paced, changing environments with shifting priorities and unclear problems.

General Required Skills

• 5 to 8 years in solution or cloud architecture, including at least 3 years designing on Microsoft Azure and 1 to 2 years leading.
• At least 2 years designing or delivering AI or machine learning solutions, including at least one generative AI solution taken to production.
• Working knowledge of Azure identity, networking, and security, including Entra ID, private networking, Key Vault, and role-based access control.
• Able to turn unclear problems into designs engineers can build.
• Strong writer and facilitator, credible with executives.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Based onshore (US or Canada) for the Healthcare work, with travel required as needed.

The estimated base salary for this job is $145,000 - $170,000 USD. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $174,000 - $204,000 USD. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.

Position Level

Manager

Country

United States of America

About Us

At Huron, we’re redefining what a consulting organization can be. We go beyond advice to deliver results that last. We inherit our client’s challenges as if they were our own. We help them transform for the future. We advocate. We make a difference. And we intelligently, passionately, relentlessly do great work…together.

Are you the kind of person who stands ready to jump in, roll up your sleeves and transform ideas into action? Then come discover Huron.

Whether you have years of experience or come right out of college, we invite you to explore our many opportunities. Find out how you can use your talents and develop your skills to make an impact immediately. Learn about how our culture and values provide you with the kind of environment that invites new ideas and innovation. Come see how we collaborate with each other in a culture of learning, coaching, diversity and inclusion. And hear about our unwavering commitment to make a difference in partnership with our clients, shareholders, communities and colleagues.

Huron Consulting Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents; a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous Paid Time Off policy; and paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Our Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year. All benefits and programs are subject to applicable eligibility requirements.

Huron is fully committed to providing equal employment opportunity to job applicants and employees in recruitment, hiring, employment, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Huron will not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, religion, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, creed, citizenship or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. We endeavor to maintain a drug-free workplace.