Lead Solution Architect (Tantus)

Lead Solution Architect (US - Remote)

What to expect when you join Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary

Team members at Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary have a lot in common while also being part of a rich and varied group of contributors, creating a distinct and thriving culture. Chief among our commonalities is a desire for growth and a shared unity of purpose in our professional lives. We believe that through diverse perspectives, challenging the status quo and rewarding action, we accelerate innovation and drive growth - for our clients, for ourselves and for our communities.

The professional services landscape continues to evolve. For Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary, this means we have an opportunity to further cement our leadership position in this industry and continue to grow our organization in increasingly exciting ways. This growth is meaningful for every team member at our company because larger companies simply see more interesting client opportunities and can attract impressively talented individuals like you. Through a dedicated focus on key business priorities and intentionally creating a rewarding employee experience, Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary has developed into a highly regarded provider of professional services and a sought-after employer of choice.

Do you want to work with other skilled and agile practitioners who thrive on challenge and growth? We believe everyone has untapped potential. That's why we lead with vision and act fast, pairing deep expertise with practical solutions. Our teams cut through complexity and deliver real impact. It's our hope that you find more than just a job. At Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary, you'll find optimism, clear insights and genuine warmth, without egos.

Are you ready to grow with us?

Position summary

The Lead Solution Architect serves as the senior technical authority across a portfolio of modernization, shared services, and security-focused initiatives in support of our client. This role is responsible for defining and governing end-to-end solution architectures that balance business needs, technical feasibility, security requirements, and long-term sustainability. The Lead Solution Architect provides strategic direction, architectural oversight, and hands-on guidance to ensure solutions are scalable, reusable, secure, and aligned with enterprise goals.

This position operates at the intersection of enterprise architecture, shared technical enablement, and security engineering, providing cohesion across teams and ensuring that technical decisions drive measurable value.

What will you do in this role?

Enterprise Architecture & Innovation Leadership

• Define and maintain solution and architectural roadmaps that align modernization efforts with organizational strategy and future-state objectives.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, architectural patterns, and tooling to inform strategic investment decisions and innovation initiatives.
• Reduce technical debt by guiding system evolution toward standardized, interoperable, and cloud-optimized architectures.
• Provide architectural guidance and decision support to leadership through trade studies, impact analyses, and solution options.

Shared Solutions & Technical Enablement

• Lead the design and adoption of shared technical solutions, reusable components, automation frameworks, and DevSecOps capabilities across teams.
• Partner with delivery leadership to ensure shared services are operationalized, adopted, and embedded into delivery pipelines rather than remaining isolated assets.
• Establish architectural standards, reference designs, and best practices that improve consistency, delivery velocity, and maintainability.
• Serve as a technical escalation point for cross-team dependencies, integration challenges, and complex design decisions.

Security Integration & Engineering Oversight

• Ensure security is embedded into solution designs from inception, balancing compliance, risk mitigation, and delivery efficiency.
• Collaborate with security engineering and compliance teams to align architectures with cloud security best practices, defense-in-depth principles, and regulatory expectations.
• Guide secure cloud migrations, identity and access patterns, and security tooling integration into development and deployment pipelines.
• Support ongoing authorization, vulnerability management, and continuous security improvement through architectural direction.

Cross-Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to program leadership, product managers, engineers, and security stakeholders.
• Provide architectural oversight across multiple teams and workstreams, ensuring alignment without constraining team autonomy.
• Mentor architects and senior engineers, raising overall architectural maturity across the organization.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

What do you need to succeed in this role?

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
• 12-15 years of progressive experience in solution architecture, systems engineering, or enterprise technology roles.
• Experience in regulated or compliance-driven environments (e.g., healthcare, public sector). Preference given to CMS experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing and governing architectures across cloud-based, distributed, and security-sensitive environments.
• Strong understanding of modern development practices including agile delivery, DevSecOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
• Proven ability to balance architectural rigor with pragmatic delivery needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in a technical or management discipline.
• Experience in regulated or compliance-driven environments (e.g., healthcare, public sector, financial services).
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS or equivalent) and modern API-based integration patterns.
• Experience leading or influencing architectural decisions across multiple teams or portfolios.
• Familiarity with interoperability standards and data exchange frameworks.

Preferred Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (or equivalent)
• TOGAF or other enterprise architecture certification
• Security-focused certifications (e.g., CISSP) are a plus but not required

In compliance with this state's pay transparency laws, the midpoint of the salary range for this role is $190,000. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location.

In addition, specific skills/experience required are as follows:

• Values driven - You embody and model absolute integrity and servant leadership and you have a bias for action and continuous innovation.
• Uncompromising problem solver - You see opportunities in every business challenge and can develop, articulate and implement solutions.
• Collaboration - You are a relationship builder across all levels of the organization and across all business units.
• Instills trust - You do what you say, without ego, and you follow through on commitments consistently and credibly.
• Impact & influence - You are relentlessly focused on making a difference and can gain support for ideas, proposals and solutions. You get others to act, with or without formal authority, to advance initiatives and objectives.

About Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary

Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary offers the public and private sectors a diverse platform of professional services across consulting, technology and compliance. Highly specialized and hands-on teams deliver integrated solutions rooted in deep industry experience. Our approach is strategically and thoughtfully designed to help our clients, teams and communities accelerate success.

Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary has approximately 2,000 team members and operates across North America, EMEA and APAC.

Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary Total Rewards

Our team members enjoy expansive benefits ranging from competitive compensation and insurance options to wellness programs and a flexible time off policy, to name only a few. Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary also takes pride in prioritizing team members' health, total wellbeing and time spent with family, friends and in the pursuit of personal goals, hobbies, and endeavors.

Some examples of our many benefits:

• Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary maintains a Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy. We encourage every full-time employee, as your role permits, to utilize paid time off (personal time, mental/physical health care, vacation, sick leave, etc.). Waiting for time off to accrue is common at other companies. At Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary, you do not have to wait for this benefit to kick in. FTO is activated on your first day with our organization.
• Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary will also recognize paid holidays during the year and strives to permit employees to have time off the last week of the calendar year when client and project work permits.
• Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary offers a comprehensive wellness program to engage, challenge and empower team members to take responsibility for their wellbeing. Activities can be tracked through our wellness provider to obtain gift cards and other rewards.

We also offer:

• Flexible work arrangements
• Health, dental, vision, life, and accident/death/disability insurance options
• HSA employer contribution
• Eleven (11) paid holidays annually.
• A robust paid Parental Bonding Leave program covering birth, adoption, and foster children.
• 401(k) with employer contributions
• Tuition reimbursement
• Generous employee referral bonus program
• Client referral bonus program
• Pet insurance
• FORCE - Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary community volunteer program enabling each team member to use up to four hours of paid time annually to volunteer and make a difference in their local communities.

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Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

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