Senior Solutions Architect

CAI • Santa Rosa, CA

3d • $150,000 - $175,000 • Remote

About The Position

CAI is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead a large-scale, multi-year enterprise modernization initiative across complex, highly interconnected business and technology environments. The role will drive target-state architecture, systems integration, data migration, and legacy transformation strategy, covering legacy applications, custom-built solutions, third-party platforms, data services, integrations, and emerging technologies. The position is full-time, remote, and contract.

Requirements

• 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 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.

Nice To Haves

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

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 target-state architecture across applications, platforms, data services, integrations, and new technologies.
• Assess interconnected technology environments to identify technical debt, redundant capabilities, consolidation opportunities, and modernization strategies.
• Define transition architectures and roadmaps that support coexistence between legacy and modern systems.
• Establish architectural standards, integration patterns, interface strategies, and technology guardrails.
• Analyze application, data, infrastructure, and integration dependencies, and identify risks associated with migrations, replacements, and modernization.
• 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 teams and stakeholders.
• Develop architecture documentation, decision records, roadmaps, and transition plans defining 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.

Benefits

• Medical insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Access to a 401(k) retirement account.
• Paid time off.
• May be entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed