Senior Application Architect

Senior Application Architect (Migration Assessment & Modernization Strategy) Must have 15 years of exp Local to Herndon VA

Senior  Application Architect

Location: Preferably Herndon,VA

Employment Type:  Contract

Work Mode  : 3 days from Office / 2 days Remote

This is NOT a DevOps / Delivery / Program Manager role. 

We are looking for a front-end transformation architect who specializes in:

•              Application Portfolio Assessment

•              Migration Strategy (7Rs / R-treatment)

•              Modernization Roadmap Design

•              Pre-sales / Solutioning support

Candidates must have personally led assessment and strategy phases, not just delivery or execution.

Must-Have Experience

Please submit only candidates who clearly demonstrate:

1. Application Portfolio Assessment Experience

•              Hands-on experience assessing 50–1000+ applications

•              Experience creating:

o             Application inventories

o             Portfolio heatmaps

o             Readiness scores

 Resume must explicitly mention “application assessment” or “portfolio assessment”

2. Migration Strategy & R-Treatment Expertise (Critical)

•              Strong experience with 7Rs (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Rebuild, Replace, Retire, Retain)

•              Ability to define modernization approach per application

 Must show decision-making examples, not just migration execution 

3. Modernization Roadmap & Wave Planning

•              Experience building:

o             Multi-year migration roadmaps

o             Wave-based migration plans

o             Dependency-based sequencing

Look for keywords:

•              “migration roadmap”

•              “wave planning”

•              “transformation strategy”

 4. Pre-Sales / Consulting Experience

•              Experience in:

o             Solutioning

o             Proposal development

o             Client workshops / discovery sessions

Candidates should have worked in consulting or client-facing architecture roles

 5. Cloud & Architecture Knowledge

•              Strong understanding of:

o             AWS migration strategies

o             Microservices, APIs, containerization

•              Familiarity with tools:

o             CAST, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, AWS MGN (preferred)

 Avoid profiles that are primarily:

•              DevOps Engineers / Kubernetes Leads

•              Delivery Managers / Program Managers

•              Pure Application Developers (.NET / Java heavy)

•              Cloud Engineers without assessment/strategy experience

•              Architects who only worked on design/delivery, not assessment

Look for titles like:

•              Application Architect – Modernization

•              Cloud Transformation Architect

•              Enterprise Architect – Application Portfolio

•              Migration Architect (Strategy-focused)

•              Pre-Sales / Solution Architect (Cloud Transformation)