• Established yet entrepreneurial – with over 20 years of success and a proven record on the London Stock Exchange, Alpha offers the stability of an established consultancy with the energy of a fast-growth business.
• Backed by Bridgepoint – as part of one of the world’s leading growth investors, Alpha benefits from strategic investment that fuels innovation, expansion and new offerings – creating even more opportunity for our people.
• Exposure to senior leadership – whether you are in an internal or a client facing role, you will have the opportunity to work with and learn from the best of the best – high performers at the top of their game.
• Learning and growth opportunities – we run tailored training to help you be successful, provide you excellent mentorship, and offer up to 5 days paid training time per year. Perhaps the best training though is the experience on the job – as everyone at Alpha has high responsibility and autonomy, you can develop your skillsets quickly.
• Performance-driven culture with real impact – advancement at Alpha is based on impact and capability, not tenure or quotas. You’ll have autonomy and see the tangible difference your ideas and decisions make.

Responsibilities

As a Lead Solution Architect, you will serve as a senior technical partner to leadership within Alpha’s Cloud Modernization Practice. You will be a hands-on, client-facing architect working across active engagements in Azure, AWS, and GCP, supporting clients in regulated industries through large-scale cloud transformations. Across each engagement, you will co-lead assessments, own target architectures, and serve as the technical escalation point for delivery teams. As part of running engagements well, you will also help scope new opportunities, validate estimates, and carry technical credibility into CxO conversations when pursuits need it. 

• Co-lead cloud assessments and discoveries alongside the practice lead: workshops, current-state analysis, target architecture design, gap identification, and roadmap build.
• Own target architectures across Azure, AWS, and GCP engagements, including landing zones, identity, networking, security, data platforms, and modernization patterns.
• Serve as the senior technical escalation point across active programs, partnering with engagement leads when architecture decisions need a second pair of senior eyes.
• Pressure-test delivery plans, estimates, and staffing models before they go to clients; catch gaps, over-commits, and technical risk early.
• Lead architecture review boards on major programs and sign off on critical design decisions.
• Scope and solution new opportunities: read the client, size the work, identify risks, and shape the approach alongside the practice lead.
• Show up in pursuit conversations when technical depth is the unlock; run whiteboard sessions, answer CxO-level architecture questions, and defend design choices against skeptical stakeholders.
• Validate estimates and LOEs before they leave the door, catching places where the team is over-simplifying or under-pricing.
• Lead technical sections of proposals, SOWs, and executive readouts.
• Produce reference architectures, design patterns, and reusable artifacts that other engagement teams can adopt.
• Build proofs-of-concept and reference implementations when a pursuit or engagement needs one; comfortable prototyping in code to de-risk a decision rather than just documenting it.
• Stay informed about cloud platform roadmaps, regulatory changes (NIST, FedRAMP, state privacy frameworks), and emerging architecture patterns relevant to Alpha’s client base.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or quantitative discipline; advanced degree a plus.
• At least 10 years' experience in cloud architecture and delivery, with a meaningful portion of that experience working in consulting, systems integration, or a hyperscaler professional services organization.
• Track record of being the senior technical voice on $5M+ cloud programs, including programs that went through rough patches and came out the other side.
• Comfortable operating across Azure, AWS, and GCP; at minimum deeply fluent in two and credible in the third.
• Fluent in modern cloud architecture patterns: landing zones, hub-spoke and mesh networking, zero trust identity, platform-as-code, container platforms, event-driven architectures, data platforms, and API-first design.
• Credible in security and compliance conversations: NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, ISO 27001, SOC 2, CIS benchmarks, and the hyperscaler-specific implementations of each.
• Senior cloud certifications across at least two hyperscalers, current or recently held. Strongly preferred: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305), AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect. Security credentials a plus: AZ-500, AWS Security Specialty, CCSP, CISSP.
• Hands-on enough to build a proof-of-concept, write a Terraform module, or collaborate with a junior engineer when needed.
• First-class communication, presentation, and problem-solving skills; able to write and present clearly at executive altitude without losing technical precision.
• Focus on team achievement, not just individual goals.
• Willingness to travel to client sites as engagements require.

Other Info

Benefits Offered

• Medical, Dental, and & Vision Insurance. Life, Short Term Disability, and Long Term Disability Insurance.
• 25 days of PTO (accrued), 11 paid holidays.
• Profit Sharing-based annual target bonus.
• Company sponsored 401(k) plan with match.
• Home internet and cell phone reimbursement program.

Please note:

• This role is not eligible for sponsorship of any kind at this time. 
• This position may require infrequent travel (to client sites).
• Team members must be able to accommodate a working schedule of 8:30am - 5:30p EST Monday through Friday. 
• No agencies, please.

The pay range for this role is:

155,000.00 - 200,000.00 USD per year,