Overview
On Site
Contract - Independent
Skills
Required Qualifications: Excellent communication
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Job Details
Key Responsibilities
- Lead comprehensive application and infrastructure discovery across on-premises, including servers, databases, load balancers, NFS mount points, dependencies, integrations, and data flows.
- Develop and maintain a living application inventory with clear business and technical metadata to guide migration prioritization.
- Conduct interviews and workshops with application owners, SMEs, security, and business partners to clarify usage patterns, SLAs, integration points, and operational considerations.
- Analyze application architectures, technology stacks, deployment patterns, and hosting models to determine migration readiness and fit to Azure landing zones.
- Design logical move groups and migration waves that minimize risk, reduce interdependency friction, and create efficient cut over paths.
- Recommend modernization or remediation approaches where gaps exist (e.g., refactor, replatform, retire, containerize).
- Partner with Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, and PMO to ensure alignment of strategy, timelines, and sequencing.
- Generate and communicate target-state architecture blueprints, reference diagrams, and run books to enable execution teams.
- Build strong relationships across business and engineering groups to ensure adoption and shared ownership of migration outcomes.
Qualifications
- Proven application architecture, cloud migration planning, or infrastructure solutions, ideally within enterprise-scale environments.
- Proven experience conducting discovery and dependency mapping for multi-tier, integrated application landscapes.
- Strong understanding of Azure services, landing zone concepts, identity, networking, and platform governance.
- Ability to reason about technical interdependencies and articulate ?why these apps move together? based on data, integration topology, performance, and business timing.
- Confident communicator who can engage both business stakeholders and deep technical engineers; able to translate complexity into clear, actionable direction.
- Experience with common tooling such as ServiceNow CMDB, Azure Migrate, Cloudamize, Tidal, Device42, or equivalent platforms.
- Demonstrated ability to develop structured wave plans, sequencing maps, and migration path recommendations.
- High EQ and collaboration orientation ? able to drive clarity in environments where application documentation may be incomplete.
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