Solutions Architect Contractor: 6-9 years (Advanced)

KAYGEN•Irving, TX

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

KAYGEN is an emerging leader in providing top talent for technology-based staffing services. We specialize in providing high-volume contingent staffing, direct hire staffing and project-based solutions to companies worldwide ranging from startups to Fortune 500 and Managed Service Providers (MSP) across a wide variety of industries. This role involves designing and developing a "Data as a Product" strategy, creating target-state data architectures using modern techniques like lakehouse architectures and ETL-free approaches, and defining migration strategies from legacy systems. The position requires close collaboration with Enterprise/Solution Architects for portfolio-level data architecture alignment.

Requirements

Extensive experience as a data architect on large-scale data platform modernization initiatives.
Hands-on familiarity with lakehouse architecture, data mesh, and data virtualization approaches.
Practical experience migrating legacy ETL platforms (e.g. Ab Initio, Informatica) to modern architectures is highly relevant.
6-9 years of experience.

Nice To Haves

Banking and capital markets experience.

Responsibilities

Design and develop a "Data as a Product" strategy for the domain.
Develop target-state data architecture using modern techniques — lakehouse architectures and ETL-free architecture via data virtualization / data mesh.
Define migration approach from legacy batch-ETL platforms toward the target architecture.
Partner with Enterprise/Solution Architects on portfolio-level data architecture alignment.