Senior Application Technical Lead

Job Title: Senior Application Technical Lead
Location: Austin, TX Onsite
Duration: 12+ months on W2 Contract

Job Description:

Description:

We are seeking a Senior Application Technical Lead to work On-Site at our Austin, Texas client playing a critical role in consolidating and transitioning application support services across multiple departments into a centralized IT organization. This role supports a strategic initiative to assess and implement the transition of decentralized or 'shadow' IT resources into a centralized IT division. The project focuses on enhancing IT governance, optimizing service delivery, and improving enterprise-wide visibility, security, and reporting. This transformation will involve evaluating current IT roles, aligning resources with a new organizational design, and facilitating infrastructure and application support integration. You 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 application support responsibilities distributed across various business units.
• Identify and recommend consolidation opportunities to eliminate redundancies and optimize support coverage.
• 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 support and maintenance.
• Partner with Organizational Change Management (OCM) and communications teams to ensure smooth stakeholder engagement and adoption of new support models.
• Provide technical leadership in defining scalable and sustainable application support practices.
• Help inventory and assess current and planned IT systems and projects for centralization.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in enterprise application support or technical leadership roles.
• Proven experience leading application integration or centralization efforts across complex organizational structures.
• Deep understanding of application lifecycle management, infrastructure support, 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 operations and recommend effective transition strategies.
• Effective communicator with experience collaborating across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Familiarity with classification analysis, organizational redesign, and role alignment strategies is a strong plus.
• Experience supporting large-scale IT transformation or OCM initiatives is highly desirable.

Preferred:

• PMP, ITIL, or relevant technical certifications.
• Experience in multi-department or enterprise-wide IT consolidation projects.
• Understanding of cybersecurity, access control, and enterprise application security in the public sector.

Thanks and Regards
Eshant Sharma

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