Remote Enterprise Solutions Architect – Modernization Lead

CAI; City of Albany (NY); Remote; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

CAI is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead a large-scale enterprise modernization initiative, directing target-state architecture, systems integration, data migration, and legacy transformation strategy across complex, highly interconnected business and technology environments.

This full-time remote contract role requires guiding architecture decisions, collaborating with business, product, engineering, and security teams, and delivering transition plans from current to future states.

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise architecture for a complex, multi-year technology transformation involving modernization, integration, replacement, and retirement of legacy and emerging systems.
• Develop target-state architecture and roadmaps that enable coexistence of legacy and modern systems during transformation.
• Collaborate with business, product, engineering, security, data, and vendor teams to translate evolving requirements into sustainable technical solutions.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Systems integration

Data migration

Stakeholder management

SQL/DB design

.NET/Python

APIs/integrations

Tools

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

.NET

Python

Job description

CAI is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead a large-scale enterprise modernization initiative, directing target-state architecture, systems integration, data migration, and legacy transformation strategy across complex, highly interconnected business and technology environments.

This full-time remote contract role requires guiding architecture decisions, collaborating with business, product, engineering, and security teams, and delivering transition plans from current to future states.