Remote Senior Solutions Architect: Enterprise Modernization

CAI; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k retirement account access

Paid time off

Paid sick leave

Job summary

CAI is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead a large-scale enterprise modernization initiative. The role is remote, full-time, and contract-based, guiding target-state architecture, data migration, and system integration across complex environments.

You will collaborate with business, product, engineering, security, and data teams to define transition plans and architectural standards, ensuring scalable and maintainable solutions while addressing risks and dependencies.

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.
• 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.
• 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

Data migration

Target-state architecture

APIs design

Data pipelines

Tools

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

.NET

Python

Job description

CAI is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead a large-scale enterprise modernization initiative. The role is remote, full-time, and contract-based, guiding target-state architecture, data migration, and system integration across complex environments.

You will collaborate with business, product, engineering, security, and data teams to define transition plans and architectural standards, ensuring scalable and maintainable solutions while addressing risks and dependencies.