Senior Solution Architect

Job order - J - Permanent Full Time

Title Senior Solution Architect

Category Architecture

City Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Job Description Senior Solution Architect
Position Description
Are you passionate about shaping enterprise technology strategy and designing modern, scalable solutions that solve complex business challenges?
CGI is seeking an experienced Senior Solution Architect to join our growing consulting practice supporting enterprise clients in the Salt Lake City, UT area. This is an outstanding opportunity for a technology leader who combines deep technical expertise with strategic thinking to architect innovative, cloud-native solutions that accelerate digital transformation and deliver lasting business value.
This is a hands‑on architecture role where you'll work closely with engineering teams to guide solution implementation, review technical designs, resolve complex architectural challenges, and ensure successful delivery.
As a trusted advisor, you will collaborate with executive stakeholders, business leaders, enterprise architects, and engineering teams to define technology roadmaps, design enterprise‑scale solutions, and guide the successful delivery of mission‑critical initiatives. You'll help organizations modernize their technology landscape through cloud adoption, AI‑enabled capabilities, event‑driven architectures, microservices, enterprise integration, and modern software engineering practices.
At CGI, you'll work alongside highly skilled consultants on challenging, high‑impact projects while enjoying a collaborative culture that encourages innovation, continuous learning, and professional growth. Your expertise will help shape our clients' technology strategies while influencing the future of enterprise digital transformation.

Location:

This position is based onsite at a client location in the Salt Lake City, UT area.
Why Join CGI?
At CGI, we're more than consultants—we're trusted technology partners helping organizations solve their most complex business and technology challenges.
As one of the world's largest independent IT and business consulting firms, you'll have the opportunity to:

• Design enterprise solutions for industry‑leading organizations.
• Lead cloud modernization and digital transformation initiatives.
• Help clients adopt AI, automation, and intelligent business capabilities.
• Influence enterprise architecture and long‑term technology strategy.
• Collaborate with experienced architects, engineers, and business leaders.
• Grow your career through challenging engagements, technical leadership, and continuous learning.
• Deliver meaningful solutions that create lasting business impact.

How you'll make an impact
As a Senior Solution Architect, you will provide both strategic and technical leadership across enterprise initiatives, ensuring technology solutions align with business objectives, enterprise architecture standards, and long‑term organizational strategy.
Strategic Business Partnership

• Build trusted relationships with executive stakeholders, business leaders, product owners, and technical teams
• Partner with business and technology leadership to translate strategic objectives into scalable technology solutions
• Participate in enterprise planning, technology strategy, and investment discussions
• Support business case development, technology assessments, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis, and modernization initiatives
• Advise leadership on technology selection, architecture decisions, innovation opportunities, and emerging industry trends
• Support application portfolio management, including modernization, lifecycle planning, and technology rationalization

• Design secure, scalable, resilient, and cloud‑native enterprise solutions supporting mission‑critical business capabilities
• Translate complex business and technical requirements into comprehensive solution architectures aligned with enterprise standards
• Develop architecture blueprints, reference architectures, solution roadmaps, and integration strategies
• Design modern distributed systems leveraging:
  • Cloud‑native architectures
  • Microservices
  • Event‑driven architectures
  • API‑first integration
  • Enterp…