Services Solution Architect -

Diversified
Chicago, IL
About Diversified:
Diversified is a global leader in audio visual and media innovation, recognized for designing and building the world’s most experiential environments. Our award-winning team specializes in delivering solutions for the most complex, large-scale and immersive installations. Serving a global clientele that includes major media organizations and retailers, sports and live performance venues, corporate enterprises, and government agencies, Diversified partners with clients to create spaces that bring people together and keep them coming back.

What to Expect:
At Diversified, we're on a mission to create a world without boundaries, where technology enables all people to connect and experience the moments that matter, wherever they choose to be. With clients spanning the globe and an exciting pipeline of projects across industries, Diversified offers more than just a job. We offer a career path with the flexibility to grow personally and professionally, wherever your ambitions take you.
As a Diversified associate, you'll dive headfirst into big, complex, and rewarding projects that push the boundaries of what's possible. Plus, you'll enjoy a flexible work environment, competitive compensation and benefits, and a culture that celebrates diversity and inclusion.
IF YOU CAN DREAM IT, YOU CAN DO IT AT DIVERSIFIED.

Diversified work with many of the world’s leading Enterprise customers, including, Google, Amazon, Netflix, AstraZeneca, Citibank, Facebook, and many others. Our solutions are experienced by millions every day. Removing the distance. Delivering a message. Powering business. Celebrating fandom. Even saving lives. Leveraging the best in technology and ongoing advisory services to transform businesses – connecting people, technology, and experiences.

How You’ll Contribute:
Diversified is seeking a commercially driven and technically credible Service Solution Architect to lead the design and continuous improvement of service solutions. This is presales-focused service architecture role responsible for supporting complex, multi-element, service-led opportunities from early discovery through solution design, commercial modelling, contractual definition, and executive presentation.
The role sits at the intersection of Sales, Services, and Operations, with accountability for ensuring that solutions are:
  • Technically robust
  • Commercially sound
  • Contractually clear
  • Operationally deliverable
In parallel, the role contributes to the development of scalable, repeatable service offerings, supporting long-term service & revenue growth, and portfolio evolution.

What You’ll Do:
1. Solution Architecture & Design
  • Lead structured discovery engagements to understand business objectives, operational requirements, and service outcomes
  • Define end-to-end service solutions including scope, SLAs, governance models, and transition frameworks
  • Architect complex, multi-element managed services, support agreements, and staffing models
  • Drive the use of standardized, repeatable service components to ensure scalability, consistency, and margin efficiency
  • Ensure all solutions align with established service offerings, delivery models, operational capabilities, and support frameworks
  • Define clear acceptance criteria to support seamless transition into service delivery
  • Produce high-quality, executive-level proposals and detailed solution documentation
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2. Commercial & Contractual Responsibility
  • Develop and validate service cost models in alignment with defined pricing frameworks and margin expectations
  • Responsible for financial accuracy of solutions, ensuring compliance with margin thresholds and commercial governance standards, adjusting pricing based on risk, delivery complexity, contractual exposure, and operational considerations
  • Clearly define and document all assumptions, exclusions, dependencies, and constraints to protect delivery integrity
  • Own and assure the quality of Statements of Work (SOW), ensuring contractual clarity across scope, SLAs, deliverables, and obligations
  • Support contract review and redlining activities, ensuring alignment between solution design, commercial position, and contractual commitments
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3. Complex Deal & RFPs
  • Lead the service strategy for complex, service-led opportunities in partnership with Account Executives
  • Provide subject matter expertise for service workstreams within RFI/RFP responses
  • Coordinate cross-functional inputs from Sales, Operations, Delivery, and Pre-Sales teams
  • Participate in client workshops, presentations, and executive-level solution discussions
  • Support commercial negotiations relating to service scope, SLAs, and delivery commitments
  • Participate in formal deal governance processes, ensuring solution quality, compliance, and risk mitigation prior to client commitment
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4. Delivery Readiness & Assurance
  • Ensure all solutions meet internal delivery standards, frameworks, and operational acceptance criteria
  • Identify delivery risks, dependencies, and constraints, and define appropriate mitigation strategies
  • Validate solution delivery capability across global and regional delivery models
  • Support structured handover into delivery teams, ensuring clarity and continuity
  • Use feedback from delivery teams and clients to continuously improve solution design, standards, and assumptions
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5. Service Development
  • Identify gaps and opportunities within our services portfolio
  • Partner with services offering team, sales and service leadership to develop scalable, repeatable service offerings aligned to market demand
  • Collaborate with OEMs and technology partners to shape lifecycle, consulting, and XaaS-based services
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6. Sales Enablement & Growth
  • Support and guide Account Executives in qualifying service-led opportunities using clear qualification criteria
  • Work with Service and Sales leadership to improve service attachment rates across project and technology sales
  • Contribute to the development of service scoping tools, pricing frameworks, and proposal templates in collaboration with the services offering team
  • Prioritize engagement on high-value, complex, and strategic opportunities
What You’ll Bring: Required Skills/Qualifications:

  • 3+ years’ experience within AV, Unified Communications, or technology services environments
  • Experience designing and supporting managed services solutions and lifecycle support models
  • Ability to support Account Executives on pre-sales engagements, including solution design and client discussions
  • Experience contributing to SLA definitions, service frameworks, and transition planning
  • Working knowledge of pricing structures and basic commercial considerations for managed services
  • Experience contributing to RFP/RFI responses and supporting solution documentation
  • Familiarity with Unified Communications environments and enterprise collaboration ecosystems
Core Competencies
  • Advanced discovery and consultative solution design capability
  • Strong executive-level communication and presentation skills
  • Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive decision-making
  • Structured and analytical approach to complex service challenges
  • High attention to detail across documentation, pricing, and contractual scope
  • Ability to balance client outcomes with operational scalability and risk
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration across Sales, Operations, and Delivery
What We Offer:
Along with competitive compensation, you will be eligible for the following benefits:
  • Multiple medical plan options to suit your family’s needs
  • Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans
  • Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance, and Employee Assistance Plan (EAP)
  • Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
  • 401k with Employer Match
  • Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
  • Voluntary Benefits: Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Pet Insurance, Homeowners and Auto Insurance, Supplemental Term and Dependent Life and AD&D, and Legal Services
  • Commuter Benefits
  • And much more
To learn more about becoming part of the Diversified team, visit us at our career siteor email us at [email protected].
Diversified is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. All aspects of employment will be based on job requirements, individual qualifications, merit, performance, and business need. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. We believe in fair and equitable hiring practices and strive to create an environment where all individuals feel valued and empowered.
If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process due to a disability, please contact [email protected] so we can assist you.
Our compensation ranges reflect the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The pay details below range from our lowest geographic market up to our highest geographic market. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills and experience depending on the position offered, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
Posted 2026-05-09

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