Remote Enterprise Architect – Modernization Leader

CAI; Juneau (AK); Remote; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k retirement plan

Job summary

CAI is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead a large-scale enterprise modernization initiative. This remote, full-time contract role focuses on target-state architecture, systems integration, data migration, and legacy transformation across complex environments.

You will partner with business, product, engineering, security, data, and vendor teams to drive architectural standards and roadmaps, ensuring scalable and maintainable solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience assessing complex enterprise environments with interconnected systems, integrations, technical debt, and modernization opportunities.
• Proven success leading large-scale technology modernization and systems integration initiatives across legacy, custom-built, third-party, and emerging technology environments.
• Experience developing target-state architectures and transition strategies supporting multi-year transformation programs.
• Strong background creating architecture roadmaps for system modernization, replacement, migration, and retirement initiatives.
• Experience with relational databases including SQL Server and/or PostgreSQL, schema design, data integrity, performance optimization, and data validation.
• Experience with .NET and Python for enterprise applications, integrations, modernization, and data-processing solutions.
• Extensive experience designing, implementing, testing, and troubleshooting application interfaces and system integrations.
• Deep expertise with data migration, ETL/ELT processes, data pipelines, data mapping, validation, reconciliation, and cutover execution.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience managing architectural dependencies, technical debt, integration risks, and data constraints while balancing immediate project needs with long-term strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise architecture for a complex, multi-year technology transformation involving modernization, integration, replacement, and retirement of legacy and emerging systems.
• Develop and guide implementation of a target-state architecture spanning legacy applications, custom-built solutions, third-party platforms, data services, integrations, and new technologies.
• Assess highly interconnected technology environments to identify technical debt, redundant capabilities, consolidation opportunities, and modernization strategies.
• Define transition architectures and roadmaps that enable legacy and modern systems to coexist throughout the transformation lifecycle.
• Establish architectural standards, integration patterns, interface strategies, and technology guardrails that promote scalability and maintainability.
• Analyze application, data, infrastructure, and integration dependencies while identifying risks related to migrations, system replacements, and modernization efforts.
• Partner with business, product, engineering, security, data, and vendor teams to translate evolving requirements into sustainable technical solutions.
• Lead architecture decisions related to modernization, system decomposition, integrations, APIs, data exchange, migrations, and legacy system retirement.
• Oversee data migration strategies, integration approaches, and enterprise-wide architectural decisions across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Develop architecture documentation, decision records, roadmaps, and transition plans that clearly define the path from current-state to future-state environments.
• Collaborate with county stakeholders and business teams to gather requirements, validate data mappings, and resolve cross-functional data and integration challenges.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Systems integration

Target-state architecture

Roadmaps

SQL Server / PostgreSQL

.NET

Python

APIs / integrations

Data migration

Stakeholder management

Tools

REST APIs

Job description

CAI is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead a large-scale enterprise modernization initiative. This remote, full-time contract role focuses on target-state architecture, systems integration, data migration, and legacy transformation across complex environments.

You will partner with business, product, engineering, security, data, and vendor teams to drive architectural standards and roadmaps, ensuring scalable and maintainable solutions.