Solutions Architect Team Lead - Utilities Vertical
Job in
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60601, USA
Listing for:
Convergint
Full Time
position
Listed on 2026-11-11
Job specializations:
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Engineering
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Management
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Job Description:
Convergint is seeking a full-time, enthusiastic, results-driven, and forward-thinking Solutions Architect to lead our Public Sector Verticals focused Design and Estimating team. This role leads a team of design engineering, estimating, solution development, and construction drawing resources that support opportunities and projects across critical infrastructure and government-focused markets, including defense, aviation, federal, utilities (electric, water, wastewater, and gas utilities), as well as federal, state, and local agencies, education, and public safety organizations.
For information about how we use your personal information, please see our Colleague & Applicant Privacy Notice, available on You Are You are a highly skilled problem-solver with an eye for detail and precision. You thrive in managing complex, large-scale opportunities and have the expertise to navigate specialized security requirements. You are collaborative, resourceful, and committed to delivering results on high-stakes projects.
Who We Are With 20 years of proven growth and exceptional performance, our mission is to be our customer’s best service provider. Our company is built upon a solid foundation of 10 Values and Beliefs that drive our unmatched culture, making us the #1 global, service-based systems integrator. We take pride in protecting the lives and assets of our customers and their communities with the solutions we provide.
What you’ll do with “Our Training and Your Experience”Provide overall leadership for design, engineering, estimating, solution development, and construction drawing support across the Public Sector verticals.
Lead and manage a multidisciplinary team of designers, engineers, estimators, and technical specialists, including workload coordination, mentoring, performance management, and technical guidance.
Serve as the senior technical leader and escalation point for complex opportunities, regulated installations, specialized environments, and large-scale, multi-site, or global programs.
Define and implement consistent standards, processes, tools, and best practices for solution design, scopes of work, estimates, proposals, and construction documentation across both verticals.
Coordinate resources across regions and Convergint Technology Centers to support strategic pursuits, high-value opportunities, and customer commitments.
Collaborate with sales leadership and vertical leadership to align solution strategies with customer requirements, organizational growth objectives, business goals, and market conditions.
Guide teams in developing integrated system designs, solution strategies, estimates, proposal content, specifications, and construction drawings for complex critical infrastructure and public sector opportunities.
Work directly with customers and sales colleagues to clarify requirements, develop solutions, define scope, and communicate technical and business value.
Participate in pre-bid meetings, site and technical discussions, solution reviews, and customer presentations to assess project needs and unique requirements.
Lead the preparation and review of detailed cost estimates for complex, multi-site, multi-country, regulated, and mission-critical security projects.
Partner with engineering, procurement, operations, installation teams, vendors, subcontractors, and technology partners to validate feasibility, pricing, compliance, schedules, and delivery assumptions.
Identify project risks, special handling requirements, scope gaps, regulatory considerations, and mitigation strategies before proposal submission.
Evaluate emerging technologies and advanced analytics and promote appropriate convergence of physical…
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