Sr. Solutions Architect

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. 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.

A leading Consulting Company is seeking a Sr. Solutions Architect for a 6 month contract to hire role. Are you passionate about shaping enterprise technology strategy and designing modern, scalable solutions that solve complex business challenges? The client 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. Your future duties and responsibilities 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 Solution Architecture & Technical Leadership * 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 * Enterprise messaging * AI-enabled services * Lead application modernization initiatives, including legacy transformation and cloud migration * Ensure architectural decisions promote scalability, security, maintainability, observability, and operational excellence * Establish architecture principles, governance standards, reusable design patterns, and engineering best practices * Partner with development teams to ensure successful implementation of architectural designs Enterprise Architecture & Governance * Collaborate with Enterprise Architects to ensure solution alignment with long-term technology strategy * Participate in Architecture Review Boards (ARBs) and governance processes * Evaluate technology risks, technical debt, and modernization opportunities * Develop future-state technology roadmaps that support evolving business capabilities * Promote standardized, reusable, secure, and automated architectural approaches * Drive architecture documentation, design standards, and governance throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Innovation & Engineering Excellence * Champion innovation through the adoption of AI, automation, cloud-native engineering, and emerging technologies * Mentor architects, developers, and technical teams on architecture principles and engineering excellence * Foster a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and technical leadership * Stay current with industry trends, cloud platforms, AI technologies, enterprise integration patterns, and software architecture best practices * Improve engineering productivity through automation, DevSecOps, AI-assisted development, and platform modernization Required qualifications to be successful in this role What you'll bring Education * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent professional experience) Experience * 8+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or enterprise application development * Demonstrated progression from senior software engineer into architecture, technical leadership, or enterprise solution design roles * Experience designing enterprise-scale, cloud-native applications supporting complex business environments * Proven success leading architecture decisions across multiple concurrent initiatives * Experience collaborating with executive stakeholders and cross-functional technical teams Technical Expertise Strong experience designing and implementing enterprise solutions utilizing technologies such as: Programming * Java * Python * Modern object-oriented programming languages Cloud Platforms * Amazon Web Services (AWS) * Microsoft Azure * Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - Preferred Architecture & Design * Microservices * Event-driven architecture * Enterprise integration patterns * API-first design * Domain-Driven Design (DDD) * Distributed systems Integration Technologies * RESTful APIs * JSON * XML * API Management platforms * Enterprise messaging * Apache Kafka or comparable event-streaming technologies DevOps & Cloud Engineering * Docker * Kubernetes * Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, or similar) * CI/CD pipelines * Git * Azure DevOps * GitHub Data Technologies * SQL * Relational databases * Data modeling and query optimization Operating Systems * Linux * Shell scripting AI & Emerging Technologies * Generative AI * Agentic AI * AI-assisted software development * Intelligent automation Preferred Qualifications Experience in one or more of the following is highly desirable: * Enterprise Architecture frameworks (TOGAF or equivalent) * Cloud migration and modernization initiatives * API Management platforms (Apigee, Kong, MuleSoft, Azure API Management, etc.) * Event streaming platforms (Kafka, Event Hubs, or similar) * Data integration and analytics platforms * Security architecture, identity, and access management (IAM) * DevSecOps practices * Observability and monitoring platforms (Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, etc.) * Experience within financial services, government, healthcare, or other regulated industries * Agile, Scrum, and SAFe delivery environments * Technical leadership across geographically distributed engineering organizations