Senior Solutions Architect

Senior Solutions Architect

Req number:

R8824

Employment type:

Full time

Worksite flexibility:

Remote

CAI is a global services firm with over 9,000 associates worldwide and a yearly revenue of $1.3 billion+. We have over 40 years of excellence in uniting talent and technology to power the possible for our clients, colleagues, and communities. As a privately held company, we have the freedom and focus to do what is right—whatever it takes. Our tailor-made solutions create lasting results across the public and commercial sectors, and we are trailblazers in bringing neurodiversity to the enterprise.

The Senior Solution Architect will be responsible for leading a large-scale enterprise modernization initiative, driving target-state architecture, systems integration, data migration, and legacy transformation strategy across complex, highly interconnected business and technology environments.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Solutions Architect to join our IT team. This position will be full-time, remote, and is a contract position.

• 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

• 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…