Senior Solutions Architect

WHO WE ARE

Elliott Davis pairs forward-thinking tax, assurance and consulting services with industry-leading workplace culture. Our nine offices — located in the fastest growing cities in the US — are built on a foundation of inclusivity, collaboration, and collective growth. We work daily to provide exceptional service to our people, customers, and our communities. Audit and assurance services are provided by Elliott Davis, LLC (doing business in NC and D.C. as Elliott Davis, PLLC), a licensed CPA firm.

Position Overview:

The Senior Solution Architect leads the enterprise data engagements from first conversation to go-live. You'll scope the work with client executives, design the architecture, and lead the team that delivers it. This is a Senior Manager-level role.

You'll work across platforms rather than inside a single toolset: cloud data warehouses, ERP and operational sources, integration, semantic models, and business intelligence. The role suits someone who understands what finance and operations leaders need, and who still builds when the problem is hard.
Within your first year, you'll take enterprise data opportunities from scoping through delivery without a Director running them. Clients will see you as their trusted architect, and our Principal Architect will rely on you for design reviews and standards.

Responsibilities:

Scoping and solutioning

•         Lead discovery with client executives and turn business problems into solution architectures, roadmaps, and phased plans.

•         Build estimates, staffing models, and statements of work, and own the technical content of proposals.

•         Recommend the right platform and approach for each client's data, systems, budget, and team.

•         Present and demo solutions to executive buying committees.

Engagement execution

•         Lead enterprise data engagements end to end: design, build, testing, deployment, and adoption.

•         Serve as the primary client contact and run design reviews, steering committees, and executive readouts.

•         Manage scope, budget, risks, and timelines across concurrent engagements.

•         Hold the delivery team to a high bar for quality and maintainability.

Architecture and technical leadership

•         Design warehouses, lakehouses, integrations, semantic models, and reporting on the platform that fits the client, whether Oracle, Microsoft, Snowflake, Databricks, or others.

•         Integrate ERP, CRM, and operational data from APIs, flat files, and middleware.

•         Get hands-on for difficult modeling, SQL, integration, and performance problems.

•         Bring AI into solutions and delivery, from AI-assisted development to AI-enabled analytics.

•         Partner with our Principal Architect on reference architectures, standards, and accelerators.

Client advisory and growth

•         Advise CFOs, controllers, and operations leaders on data strategy, reporting consolidation, and close acceleration.

•         Guide clients through ERP migrations and post-acquisition system and data consolidation.

•         Identify expansion opportunities and help shape repeatable offerings.

People leadership

•         Lead and develop consultants and architects, including distributed and offshore team members.

•         Review designs, models, and code, and coach the team through client exposure.

Requirements:

Required

•         10+ years in data, BI, or analytics, including several years leading teams and data initiatives.

•         Deep, hands-on expertise in at least one enterprise data ecosystem (for example Oracle, Microsoft, Snowflake, or Databricks), and the judgment to lead work on others.

•         Data warehouse and semantic model design, including dimensional modeling and star schemas.

•         Strong SQL and integration experience across APIs, file-based feeds, and middleware or ETL tools.

•         Experience with ERP-sourced data (for example NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, JD Edwards, or SAP) and the finance, sales, and supply chain processes behind it.

•         Experience scoping and estimating data projects, for clients or internal stakeholders.

•         A track record of measurable business outcomes, such as a faster close, better forecasting, or less manual reporting.

•         Executive presence: comfortable leading steering committees and presenting to CFOs and larger audiences.

Preferred

•         Experience across more than one BI platform (for example Power BI, Oracle Analytics Cloud, or Tableau).

•         ERP migrations and post-acquisition system consolidation.

•         Python and AI-assisted development with LLM tools.

•         Consulting or professional services experience.

•         Cloud, data platform, or architecture certifications.

Supervisory Responsibility:

Yes

ADA REQUIREMENTS:

The physical and cognitive/mental requirements and the work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Regularly required to remain in a stationary position; use hands repetitively to handle, feel or operate standard office equipment; and to talk or hear, both in person and by telephone.

• Frequently required to lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

• Required to have specific vision abilities which includes close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Cognitive/Mental Requirements:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:

• Use written and oral communication skills.
  • Deal with a high level of stress.
  • Use a high level of concentration.
  • Read and interpret data, information, and documents.
  • Analyze and solve non-routine office administrative problems.
  • Observe and interpret situations.
  • Learn and apply new information or skills.
  • Work under deadlines with frequent interruptions.
  • Interact with internal and external customers and others in the course of work.

Working Environment:

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee will work under typical office conditions, with the noise level being usually quiet to moderate. Occasional exposure to outside environment when traveling to off-site locations for training/events or other outside locations as requested.

Position Type / Expected Hours of Work

Full-time / 40 hours per week, with some overtime as required.

EEO Statement:

Elliott Davis Advisory, LLC provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.

WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN US

We believe that when our employees are able to thrive in all facets of life, their work and impact are that much greater.
That's right – all aspects of life, not just your life as an employee, because we understand that there's life beyond your job. Here are some of the ways our work works for your life, your growth, and your well-being: 
•    generous time away and paid firm holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s
•    flexible work schedules
•    16 weeks of paid maternity and adoption leave, 8 weeks of paid parental leave, 4 weeks of paid  and caregiver leave (once eligible) 
•    first-class health and wellness benefits, including wellness coaching and mental health counseling
•    one-on-one professional coaching
•    Leadership and career development programs
•    access to Beyond:  a one-of-a kind program with experiences that help you expand your life, personally and professionally

NOTICE TO 3RD PARTY RECRUITERS
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ADA REQUIREMENTS
The physical and cognitive/mental requirements and the work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Requirements
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is:
•    Regularly required to remain in a stationary position; use hands repetitively to operate standard office equipment; and to talk or hear, both in person and by telephone
•    Required to have specific vision abilities which include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus

Cognitive/Mental Requirements
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:
•    Use written and oral communication skills. 
•    Read and interpret data, information, and documents. 
•    Observe and interpret situations. 
•    Work under deadlines with frequent interruptions; and
•    Interact with internal and external customers and others in the course of work.