Remote Enterprise Modernization Solutions Architect

CAI; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

CAI is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead a large-scale enterprise modernization with target-state architecture, data migration, and legacy transformation across complex environments. This full-time remote contract role demands strong leadership and hands-on architectural expertise to guide multi-team efforts.

You will collaborate with business, product, and security teams to define transition roadmaps, establish API and data exchange standards, and drive modernization initiatives

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 database architecture, 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.

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.
• Collaborate with county stakeholders and business teams to gather requirements, validate data mappings, and resolve cross-functional data and integration challenges.
• 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.

Skills

Enterprise modernization

Systems integration

Target-state architecture

Data migration

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Relational DB design

.NET & Python

Tools

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

.NET

Python

Job description

CAI is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead a large-scale enterprise modernization with target-state architecture, data migration, and legacy transformation across complex environments. This full-time remote contract role demands strong leadership and hands-on architectural expertise to guide multi-team efforts.

You will collaborate with business, product, and security teams to define transition roadmaps, establish API and data exchange standards, and drive modernization initiatives