Remote Senior Solutions Architect: Enterprise Modernization

CAI; Hartford (CT); 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 modernization initiative across complex enterprise environments. This remote, full-time contract role focuses on target-state architecture, data migration, and system integration with multi-year scope.

You will collaborate with business, product, engineering, security, and data teams to define roadmaps, standards, and transition plans, delivering sustainable technical solutions for clients in diverse sectors.

Qualifications

• Experience assessing complex enterprise environments with interconnected systems and modernization opportunities.
• Proven success leading large-scale technology modernization and systems integration initiatives.
• Experience developing target-state architectures and transition strategies for 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.
• Experience managing architectural dependencies, technical debt, integration risks, and data constraints while balancing immediate project needs with long-term strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise architecture for a multi-year technology transformation.
• Develop and guide target-state architecture across legacy and new systems.
• Assess environment to identify technical debt and modernization opportunities.
• Define transition architectures and roadmaps for coexistence of legacy and modern systems.
• Establish standards, integration patterns, and guardrails for scalability.
• Analyze dependencies and risks related to migrations and modernization.
• Partner with business, product, engineering, security, data, and vendor teams.
• Lead decisions on modernization, decomposition, integrations, APIs, data exchange, migrations, retirement.
• Oversee data migration strategies and enterprise-wide decisions.
• Develop architecture documentation and transition plans.
• Collaborate with county stakeholders to gather requirements and resolve data challenges.

Skills

Enterprise modernization leadership

Systems integration

Target-state architecture

Data migration expertise

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

SQL Server / PostgreSQL

.NET & Python

Tools

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

.NET

Python

ETL/ELT

Job description

CAI is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead a large-scale modernization initiative across complex enterprise environments. This remote, full-time contract role focuses on target-state architecture, data migration, and system integration with multi-year scope.

You will collaborate with business, product, engineering, security, and data teams to define roadmaps, standards, and transition plans, delivering sustainable technical solutions for clients in diverse sectors.