Senior Application Architect

Overview

Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)

Skills

Enterprise application architecture
application integration
application remediation
application consolidation
application lifecycle management (ALM)
IT modernization
IT service delivery
IT governance
public-sector IT
cross-functional collaboration
enterprise security
access control
cybersecurity principles
system dependencies analysis
scalable application design
transition planning
migration strategy
centralized IT models
technical leadership
stakeholder management
requirements analysis
process standardization
documentation
enterprise systems evaluation
modernization strategy
service-level requirements analysis.

Job Details

Our client is looking for a Senior Application Technical Lead needed to support a major IT centralization and modernization initiative. This role evaluates decentralized application environments, recommends consolidation strategies, and leads the technical transition of application support services into a centralized IT division. The Lead will assess current-state applications, guide integration efforts across departments, define standards, and support the development of scalable, sustainable application support practices. Experience with enterprise application architecture, public-sector IT governance, and large-scale modernization projects is required.

Position Summary:

Our client is seeking a Senior Application Technical Lead to play a critical role in consolidating and transitioning application support services across multiple departments into a centralized IT organization. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and business units to evaluate existing application support structures, recommend integration strategies, and guide the alignment of support services under the new centralized model.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Review and assess current applications and resource designations distributed across various business units.
  • Identify and recommend application consolidation opportunities to eliminate redundancies.
  • Lead the technical integration of application services into the centralized IT structure.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand application dependencies, support needs, and service-level requirements.
  • Support the transition planning, role realignment, and onboarding of staff affected by application support changes.
  • Contribute to the development of standardized processes and procedures for application development and maintenance.
  • Provide application technical leadership in defining scalable and sustainable application support practices.
  • Help inventory and assess current and planned IT applications/systems and projects for consolidation.

Required Qualifications:

  • Minimum of 12 years of experience in enterprise application architecture or application development leadership roles.
  • Proven experience leading application integration or centralization efforts across complex organizational structures.
  • Deep understanding of application lifecycle management and IT service delivery.
  • Experience working in or with public-sector organizations, with an understanding of government IT structures and governance models.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; able to assess current-state applications and recommend effective enhancement/transition strategies.
  • Effective communicator with experience collaborating across diverse stakeholder groups.
  • Experience with application evaluations in large-scale IT transformation initiatives is highly desirable.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience as application lead in multi-department or enterprise-wide IT modernization and consolidation projects.
  • Understanding of cybersecurity, access control, and enterprise application security in the public sector.
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