Remote Senior Enterprise Architect – Modernization

CAI; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401k retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

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

You will partner with business, product, engineering, security, data, and vendor teams to drive architectural decisions and ensure scalable, sustainable 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 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.
• 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.

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 assessment

Large-scale modernization

Target-state architecture

Legacy modernization

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

.NET

Python

APIs & integrations

Data migration

Stakeholder management

Tools

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Job description

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

You will partner with business, product, engineering, security, data, and vendor teams to drive architectural decisions and ensure scalable, sustainable solutions.