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Senior Application Architect

VDart

 

United States

Posted On: 6 days ago
Experience: 15+ years
Availability: Onsite
Openings: 1
Category: Application Architect
Tenure: Full-time Only
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Description

Key Responsibilities

Application Portfolio Assessment

  • Lead large-scale application portfolio discovery and assessment engagements across enterprise client environments — covering 100s to 1000s of applications spanning Java, .NET, legacy frameworks, packaged COTS applications, and custom-built systems
  • Design and execute application assessment frameworks covering Technical health, cloud readiness, containerization / serverless readiness and potential modernization pathways
  • Conduct and Lead application dependency mapping and integration topology analysis
  • Lead technical interviews and workshops with client development, operations, and architecture teams to supplement automated discovery data with qualitative context
  • Produce formal Application Assessment Reports with executive summary, portfolio heat maps, technical findings, R-Treatment recommendations, and migration / modernization readiness scores per application

Large-Scale Application Migration & Modernization Architecture

  • Design target state cloud architectures for complex, multi-tier enterprise applications — spanning web, middleware, and database layers across Java, .NET, and polyglot environments
  • Architect DevSecOps transformation pipelines including CI/CD design, automated testing integration, security scanning, and GitOps adoption for modernized application platforms

Migration Strategy & R-Treatment Decision Making

  • Develop and apply structured R-Treatment decision frameworks based on business value, technical health, cloud fit, and strategic priority
  • Define application placement strategies with precision — prescribing the right modernization treatment for each application across the 7-Rs
  • Design migration sequencing and wave planning strategies — balancing business priority, technical dependency order, risk concentration, and delivery team capacity across multi-year migration programs
  • Develop risk registers for migration programs, identifying application-level technical risks, integration risks, data migration dependencies, and organizational change management considerations

Modernization Roadmap Development

  • Translate assessment findings and migration strategy decisions into detailed, milestone driven, multi-horizon modernization roadmaps
  • Prepare business case for modernization roadmaps — quantifying expected outcomes while aligning them to Client organizational constraints
  • Develop application-level effort estimation models tied to migration wave plans — providing granular, defensible estimates by treatment type, application complexity, and integration scope

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Partner with the Project Manager on customer readiness between Assessment reports and conversion milestone
  • Collaborate with the Lead Program Manager on deal structure, Phase 2 scope definition, and conversion metrics
  • Work alongside Engagement Leaders to ensure technical findings are represented accurately in the narrative

 

Ideal Candidate Profile

  • 15+ years in enterprise technology, with a development / solutioning experience.
  • 8–12 years of experience in application architecture with a clear, demonstrated specialization in application portfolio assessment, migration strategy, and modernization roadmap development at enterprise scale
  • Proven experience leading application assessment engagements for large enterprise clients with portfolios of 50–1000+ applications across heterogeneous technology landscapes
  • Deep expertise in R-Treatment decision frameworks — ability to independently assess, classify, and prescribe modernization treatment for diverse application types with clear, defensible rationale
  • Strong understanding of application placement strategy across containerization, serverless, re-platform, and rearchitect patterns — with ability to articulate trade-offs at both technical and business levels
  • Hands-on knowledge of application discovery and assessment tooling such as MGN, CAST, Dynatrace, App Dynamics, SonarQube, Veracode and AWS X-Ray
  • Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture patterns: microservices, containers (Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift), serverless (Lambda, API Gateway), event-driven design, and API-first principles — sufficient to assess application fitness for each pattern and design the target architecture
  • Experience with DevSecOps toolchains (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ADO, Terraform, CloudFormation) and ability to define DevSecOps enablement as part of migration roadmaps
  • Strong business case development skills — ability to construct TCO models, ROI analyses, and modernization investment justifications for executive audiences
  • Excellent written communication and presentation skills — able to produce and present board-quality assessment reports, portfolio heat maps, and roadmap decks
  • Proven ability to operate in onsite-offshore engagement models with direct CxO and technical stakeholder engagement
  • Prior consulting or pre-sales solutioning experience is strongly preferred

Education

Bachelor's degree

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