Senior Application Architect/Technical Lead (Local to TX only)

Location: Hybrid (must go to Austin office as requested - mostly remote)

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Project Overview:

This Application Lead role supports a strategic initiative to assess and implement the transition of decentralized or shadow IT resources into a centralized IT division in preparation for modernization initiatives. The project initially focuses on enhancing IT governance, optimizing service delivery, and improving enterprise-wide visibility, security, and reporting. This initial transformation will involve aligning resources, recommending application remediation/consolidation, developing standards and modernizing new applications and systems. Modernization and application remediation responsibilities will follow this initial phase.

Position Summary:

We are 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 8 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.