Remote Enterprise Solutions Architect - Modernization Lead

CAI; Dover (DE); 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. This remote, full-time contract role focuses on target-state architecture, systems integration, and data migration across complex environments.

You will collaborate with business, product, security, data, and vendor teams to translate requirements into sustainable technical solutions, manage dependencies, and guide modernization roadmaps from current to future state.

Qualifications

• Experience assessing complex enterprise environments with interconnected systems
• Proven success leading large-scale technology modernization and systems integration initiatives
• Experience developing target-state architectures and transition strategies
• Strong background creating architecture roadmaps for system modernization, replacement, migration, and retirement initiatives
• Experience with relational databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and data validation

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 modernization

Systems integration

Target-state architecture

Data migration

Legacy transformation

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

.NET

Python

APIs

Stakeholder management

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, and data migration across complex environments.

You will collaborate with business, product, security, data, and vendor teams to translate requirements into sustainable technical solutions, manage dependencies, and guide modernization roadmaps from current to future state.