
Application Modernization Architect
Cox Enterprises
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Florida • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $134,900 - $224,900 per year
About the role
- Assess legacy application portfolios, identify modernization opportunities, and develop technical roadmaps aligned with business outcomes.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable, secure, and cost-effective software solutions.
- Conduct technical discovery and strategy workshops to identify pain points, define modernization approaches, and guide solution design on topics such as microservices, cloud-native architecture, DevOps, and CI/CD.
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor and subject matter expert on cloud technologies and software architecture, ensuring solutions align with client objectives.
- Work with internal stakeholders to define scope, develop cost estimates and labor projections, and prepare Statements of Work (SOWs), product pricing, and RFP/RFI responses.
- Design reference architectures, solution patterns, and migration frameworks that balance cost, maintainability, security, and performance.
- Architect full-stack solutions that deliver measurable business value and enable teams to learn, iterate, and adopt modern delivery practices effectively.
- Provide hands-on development leadership, coding alongside teams when needed.
- Act as a thought leader by speaking at industry events, publishing white papers, and contributing to case studies.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 6 years of experience, OR a Master’s degree and 4 years, OR a Ph.D. and 1 year, OR 10 years of related experience in lieu of a degree.
- 5+ years working as an architect in cloud-native and modernization initiatives.
- Hands-on expertise with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
- Expertise in software architecture patterns, including microservices, monolithic refactoring, event-driven architecture and serverless computing.
- Experience with containerization & orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, or OpenShift).
- Hands-on experience with application modernization initiatives from inception to production.
- Strong client-facing communication skills, with experience delivering technical presentations and engaging with business/technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations.
- Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
- Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members.
- Additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
- Health care insurance (medical, dental, vision).
- Retirement planning (401(k)).
- Paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO).
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud-native architecturemicroservicesDevOpsCI/CDsoftware architecture patternscontainerizationorchestration technologiesapplication modernizationfull-stack solutionscoding
Soft Skills
client-facing communicationtechnical presentationsstakeholder engagementthought leadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingleadershiporganizational skillsstrategic thinkingadvisory skills