Senior Solution Consultant
Aldridge, Dallas, TX, United States
Alridge is a leading Managed Service Provider (MSP) offering scalable IT and cybersecurity solutions to fast-growing, small to mid-market businesses in the US. Founded in 1984, this private equity-backed company is a technology management consulting, and outsourcing firm that provides best-fit solutions through a tailored approach and local relationships. With offices in Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Seattle, the company’s unwavering dedication, superior technical expertise, and keen understanding of business processes have transformed it into a trusted partner for its clients. With a strong reputation for delivering high-quality services, Alridge is committed to helping its clients optimize their technology infrastructure and achieve their business goals.
We help organizations move from their current IT state to a more secure, standardized, and scalable future. Our work spans assessments, architecture, and hands‑on delivery cloud transformations, Microsoft 365 modernization, security hardening, network and infrastructure upgrades, and complex migrations. We operate in a disciplined professional services environment: projects are scoped around outcomes, planned before work starts, and executed with clear ownership and governance. We are seeking a Solutions Architect to own the critical boundary between opportunity and delivery ensuring that every solution we commit to is technically sound, scalable, and ready for Professional Services to execute.
***This is a hybrid role and open to candidates in DFW and Houston, TX only.***
Position Overview Alridge is seeking a business technology solutions leader to serve as a senior, client facing advisor who helps organizations align technology decisions with business goals. This role operates at the intersection of business strategy, technology understanding, and client trust, and is designed for individuals who excel in executive level conversations rather than hands‑on implementation.
The primary purpose of this role is to lead business technology conversations with clients, understand their business objectives and current IT environments, and translate those inputs into clear roadmaps, recommendations, and actionable next steps. This role is frequently brought into client conversations by Outside Sales and Account Management when technology challenges require thoughtful solutioning, prioritization, or executive level explanation.
In addition, this role may act as the primary delivery resource for select paid consulting and recurring advisory engagements, such as IT audits, assessments, findings & recommendations work, and fractional CIO or fractional IT Director services.
Key Responsibilities
Partner closely with Outside Sales and Account Management, joining client conversations where solution leadership and strategic context are required.
Support opportunity development by shaping solution direction and building confidence in Alridge’s recommended approach.
Help clients understand why change is needed and how Alridge can help deliver it.
Represent Alridge in person with professionalism and credibility, establishing trust and foundational understanding with client organizations.
Client Advisory & Business Alignment
Engage directly with business owners, executives, and senior leaders to understand organizational goals, constraints, risks, and growth initiatives.
Establish a clear understanding of clients’ current IT environments at a conceptual and practical level, sufficient to guide strategic decision‑making.
Serve as a trusted business technology advisor, framing technology discussions in terms of outcomes, tradeoffs, risk, and value.
Technology Road mapping & Recommendations
Develop technology roadmaps that align IT initiatives to client business objectives, sequencing improvements responsibly and realistically.
Collaborate with Professional Services and Managed Services teams to ensure recommendations are practical, supportable, and executable, even when this role is not responsible for implementation.
Produce client ready roadmap summaries and presentations for executive and leadership audiences.
Clearly articulate technology options, implications, and recommendations to executive and semitechnical audiences.
Help clients move from uncertainty to decision readiness through structured conversations and clear guidance.
Define project scopes of work (SOWs) for approved initiatives, enabling confident client approval and transition to delivery teams.
Serve as the primary delivery owner for select paid consulting engagements, including:
IT audits and environment assessments
Risk, gap, and maturity evaluations
Findings & Recommendations reports
Deliver recurring advisory engagements, such as fractional CIO or fractional IT Director roles, providing ongoing strategic guidance to client leadership.
Plan, execute, and present consulting engagements with clear scope, structure, and executive ready outputs.
Consulting & Advisory Engagement Delivery
Required Qualifications
Minimum 8 years of experience in an MSP, IT consulting, or technology advisory environment serving SMB or midmarket clients.
Demonstrated success in client facing, consultative roles involving executive level conversations.
Strong working knowledge of modern IT environments, including Microsoft 365, cloud platforms, identity, cybersecurity fundamentals, networking, and managed services models.
Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business language.
Experience creating client facing presentations, roadmaps, and scoped recommendations
Preferred Qualifications
Prior experience as a fractional CIO, principal consultant, solution consultant, or senior advisor.
Comfort working alongside sales teams in solutioning and opportunity development conversations.
Experience delivering paid assessments, audits, or advisory engagements.
Up to 40% travel will be required. Most travel will be short-trip, either departing and returning on the same day or with one overnight stay.
On days without travel requirements, optional work from home days are Mondays and Fridays
On days without travel, required in‑office days are Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays
Alridge Core Values
Build Trust – We continuously earn the trust of our partners through genuine, transparent communication, and unflinching accountability.
Take Swift, Meaningful Action – When every second matters, we drill to the core question and act decisively.
Create Best‑Fit Solutions – More ≠ better – We create the most value for the least added overhead and complexity.
Evolve & Improve – We know the power of a growth mindset. We do not let fear of failure stop us from finding new, and better ways to do things.
Competitive Salary and Incentive Plan
Generous Employer Contribution to Health Benefits Package
401(k) Matching
4 Weeks Paid Time Off per year, plus additional days for community service
Ongoing Training and Professional Development Opportunities
Free Snacks and Beverages!
Aldridge is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Aff
irmative Action Employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, age, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees. All employment is based on qualifications, merit, and business needs
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We help organizations move from their current IT state to a more secure, standardized, and scalable future. Our work spans assessments, architecture, and hands‑on delivery cloud transformations, Microsoft 365 modernization, security hardening, network and infrastructure upgrades, and complex migrations. We operate in a disciplined professional services environment: projects are scoped around outcomes, planned before work starts, and executed with clear ownership and governance. We are seeking a Solutions Architect to own the critical boundary between opportunity and delivery ensuring that every solution we commit to is technically sound, scalable, and ready for Professional Services to execute.
***This is a hybrid role and open to candidates in DFW and Houston, TX only.***
Position Overview Alridge is seeking a business technology solutions leader to serve as a senior, client facing advisor who helps organizations align technology decisions with business goals. This role operates at the intersection of business strategy, technology understanding, and client trust, and is designed for individuals who excel in executive level conversations rather than hands‑on implementation.
The primary purpose of this role is to lead business technology conversations with clients, understand their business objectives and current IT environments, and translate those inputs into clear roadmaps, recommendations, and actionable next steps. This role is frequently brought into client conversations by Outside Sales and Account Management when technology challenges require thoughtful solutioning, prioritization, or executive level explanation.
In addition, this role may act as the primary delivery resource for select paid consulting and recurring advisory engagements, such as IT audits, assessments, findings & recommendations work, and fractional CIO or fractional IT Director services.
Key Responsibilities
Partner closely with Outside Sales and Account Management, joining client conversations where solution leadership and strategic context are required.
Support opportunity development by shaping solution direction and building confidence in Alridge’s recommended approach.
Help clients understand why change is needed and how Alridge can help deliver it.
Represent Alridge in person with professionalism and credibility, establishing trust and foundational understanding with client organizations.
Client Advisory & Business Alignment
Engage directly with business owners, executives, and senior leaders to understand organizational goals, constraints, risks, and growth initiatives.
Establish a clear understanding of clients’ current IT environments at a conceptual and practical level, sufficient to guide strategic decision‑making.
Serve as a trusted business technology advisor, framing technology discussions in terms of outcomes, tradeoffs, risk, and value.
Technology Road mapping & Recommendations
Develop technology roadmaps that align IT initiatives to client business objectives, sequencing improvements responsibly and realistically.
Collaborate with Professional Services and Managed Services teams to ensure recommendations are practical, supportable, and executable, even when this role is not responsible for implementation.
Produce client ready roadmap summaries and presentations for executive and leadership audiences.
Clearly articulate technology options, implications, and recommendations to executive and semitechnical audiences.
Help clients move from uncertainty to decision readiness through structured conversations and clear guidance.
Define project scopes of work (SOWs) for approved initiatives, enabling confident client approval and transition to delivery teams.
Serve as the primary delivery owner for select paid consulting engagements, including:
IT audits and environment assessments
Risk, gap, and maturity evaluations
Findings & Recommendations reports
Deliver recurring advisory engagements, such as fractional CIO or fractional IT Director roles, providing ongoing strategic guidance to client leadership.
Plan, execute, and present consulting engagements with clear scope, structure, and executive ready outputs.
Consulting & Advisory Engagement Delivery
Required Qualifications
Minimum 8 years of experience in an MSP, IT consulting, or technology advisory environment serving SMB or midmarket clients.
Demonstrated success in client facing, consultative roles involving executive level conversations.
Strong working knowledge of modern IT environments, including Microsoft 365, cloud platforms, identity, cybersecurity fundamentals, networking, and managed services models.
Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business language.
Experience creating client facing presentations, roadmaps, and scoped recommendations
Preferred Qualifications
Prior experience as a fractional CIO, principal consultant, solution consultant, or senior advisor.
Comfort working alongside sales teams in solutioning and opportunity development conversations.
Experience delivering paid assessments, audits, or advisory engagements.
Up to 40% travel will be required. Most travel will be short-trip, either departing and returning on the same day or with one overnight stay.
On days without travel requirements, optional work from home days are Mondays and Fridays
On days without travel, required in‑office days are Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays
Alridge Core Values
Build Trust – We continuously earn the trust of our partners through genuine, transparent communication, and unflinching accountability.
Take Swift, Meaningful Action – When every second matters, we drill to the core question and act decisively.
Create Best‑Fit Solutions – More ≠ better – We create the most value for the least added overhead and complexity.
Evolve & Improve – We know the power of a growth mindset. We do not let fear of failure stop us from finding new, and better ways to do things.
Competitive Salary and Incentive Plan
Generous Employer Contribution to Health Benefits Package
401(k) Matching
4 Weeks Paid Time Off per year, plus additional days for community service
Ongoing Training and Professional Development Opportunities
Free Snacks and Beverages!
Aldridge is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Aff
irmative Action Employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, age, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees. All employment is based on qualifications, merit, and business needs
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