Consulting Field Solutions Architect - Data - Financial Services - Digital Velocity

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The Consulting Field Solutions Architect – Data is a client-facing, strategic consulting role responsible for driving the technical strategy, sales acceleration, and go-to-market execution of data-focused solutions across CDW’s customer base. This position partners closely with Practice Leaders, Business Development teams, and Field CTOs to shape opinionated, differentiated approaches around cloud data platforms, data governance, analytics modernization, and AI enablement. The incumbent is expected to have a background in financial services.
 
A successful Consulting FSA brings deep technical subject matter expertise, consultative leadership, and solution development experience across cloud-native and hybrid data technologies. This individual serves as a mentor, thought leader, and trusted advisor— owning technical strategy, enabling sales success, and influencing CDW’s market position in the data ecosystem. 
 
 

What you will do: 
 
Technology Leadership 

• Consults on leading-edge data technologies with a financial service industry focus and deep expertise in areas such as cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks),  data governance (e.g., Collibra, Alation), integration (e.g., Fivetran,  Informatica), analytics (e.g., Power BI, Tableau), and ML/AI frameworks. 

• Accurately scopes professional services engagements focused on data  transformation, AI readiness, and platform modernization. 

• Maintains recognized technical and strategic expertise as the “go-to” 
  resource in the data domain, with forward-looking awareness of trends and implications. 

• Leads data assessments, workshops, and strategic architecture engagements to accelerate customer outcomes. 

• Trains and informs peers and sales on emerging solutions and prescriptive architectures based on customer engagements. 

• Promotes knowledge-sharing and reusable IP development; mentors architects and consultants across the team. 

• Serves as an escalation point for technical concerns in the pre-sales lifecycle. 

• Supports onboarding and development of new team members through knowledge transfer and collaborative project work. 

Sales 
 

• Proactively identifies future-state data opportunities that align with prior project outcomes. 

• Advises account teams and sales leaders in crafting strategic conversations aligned to business priorities. 

• Helps customers optimize existing investments, future-proof data strategy, and reduce technical debt.