Position : Application Architect – Cloud Migration to Google Cloud Platform : Only USA
Location : New York- Onsite or Travel to New York
Type of Contract : 12 Months
Experience : 15+ Years
ROLE SUMMARY
The Application Architect owns the target-state application architecture for migrating enterprise applications from AWS and Azure to Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform). The role decides, application by application, whether to rehost, replatform, refactor or re-engineer, and then leads teams through zero-downtime cutovers.
This is a hands-on leadership role. The architect works with business and technology stakeholders, the infrastructure architect, the PMO, and onshore and offshore engineering teams. The goal is a modern, scalable application estate on Google Cloud Platform, not a copy of the current AWS or Azure environment.
Attribute Detail
Level Principal / Lead Architect
Experience 12–15+ years
Reports to VP Engineering / CTO or Chief Architect
Source clouds AWS, Azure
Target cloud Google Cloud Platform
Key partners Infrastructure Architect, security, DevOps, PMO, offshore delivery teams
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
12–15+ years in software engineering and application or solution architecture in high-scale distributed environments.
Direct experience migrating applications from AWS and/or Azure to Google Cloud Platform, including at least one zero-downtime production cutover.
Proven ability to reverse-engineer legacy applications and redesign them as scalable, highly available Google Cloud Platform architectures.
Deep expertise in microservices, microfrontends, APIs, event-driven design and sidecar/service-mesh patterns.
Strong working knowledge of GKE, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, Memorystore, Apigee and Secret Manager, and their AWS/Azure equivalents.
Extensive Kafka streaming and Redis/Valkey caching design experience.
Data migration experience across relational and NoSQL stores with zero data loss.
Practical use of TOGAF or Domain-Driven Design, and a record of leading ADR and DAR forums.
Code-level credibility in Java/Spring Boot, Python, React.js and Kotlin.
Experience leading distributed onshore and offshore teams and working with a PMO.
Target technology stack
Area Technologies
Cloud Google Cloud Platform (target); AWS and Azure (sources)
Compute and runtime GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Istio
Backend Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Kotlin, Python, REST APIs, Apigee
Web and mobile React.js, microfrontends, native/hybrid mobile, BFF
Streaming and caching Apache Kafka, Pub/Sub, Redis, Valkey, Memorystore
Data Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Firestore, Cosmos DB
DevOps and observability Azure DevOps, ArgoCD, Datadog, Cloud Operations, JProfiler
Governance and AI ADR, DAR, TOGAF, DDD, Copilot, Cursor
