[Hiring] Senior Solutions Architect @CAI

Role Description

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.

What You'll Do

• 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.

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.
• Experience managing architectural dependencies, technical debt, integration risks, and data constraints while balancing immediate project needs with long-term strategy.

Requirements

• Preferred experience with Knowledge Graph architectures, REST APIs, SOAP/web services, event-driven architecture, enterprise integration platforms, automated testing frameworks, CJIS compliance requirements, and public-sector or justice-system environments.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401k retirement account access.
• Paid time off.
• Paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.