Senior Application Architect

Trianz

6d•$165,000 - $195,000•Remote

About The Position

As a Senior Modernization Architect – Cloud Migration Assessment within the Transformation Solutions & Technology Office, you will be the lead for application portfolio assessment, migration strategy, and modernization roadmap development across complex enterprise client environments. Where the broader Application Architect role spans design and delivery, this role is specifically anchored in the front-end of the engagement lifecycle — helping clients understand what they have, what it will take to modernize it, and how to sequence and fund the journey. You will work at the intersection of technical depth and strategic advisory, translating sprawling, heterogeneous application estates into structured, executable, cloud transformation roadmaps.

Requirements

15+ years in enterprise technology, with a development / solutioning experience.
8–12 years of experience in application architecture with a clear, demonstrated specialization in application portfolio assessment, migration strategy, and modernization roadmap development at enterprise scale
Proven experience leading application assessment engagements for large enterprise clients with portfolios of 50–1000+ applications across heterogeneous technology landscapes
Deep expertise in R-Treatment decision frameworks — ability to independently assess, classify, and prescribe modernization treatment for diverse application types with clear, defensible rationale
Strong understanding of application placement strategy across containerization, serverless, re-platform, and rearchitect patterns — with ability to articulate trade-offs at both technical and business levels
Hands-on knowledge of application discovery and assessment tooling such as MGN, CAST, Dynatrace, App Dynamics, SonarQube, Veracode and AWS X-Ray
Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture patterns: microservices, containers (Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift), serverless (Lambda, API Gateway), event-driven design, and API-first principles — sufficient to assess application fitness for each pattern and design the target architecture
Experience with DevSecOps toolchains (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ADO, Terraform, CloudFormation) and ability to define DevSecOps enablement as part of migration roadmaps
Strong business case development skills — ability to construct TCO models, ROI analyses, and modernization investment justifications for executive audiences
Excellent written communication and presentation skills — able to produce and present board-quality assessment reports, portfolio heat maps, and roadmap decks
Proven ability to operate in onsite-offshore engagement models with direct CxO and technical stakeholder engagement
Prior consulting or pre-sales solutioning experience is strongly preferred

Responsibilities

Lead large-scale application portfolio discovery and assessment engagements across enterprise client environments — covering 100s to 1000s of applications spanning Java, .NET, legacy frameworks, packaged COTS applications, and custom-built systems
Design and execute application assessment frameworks covering Technical health, cloud readiness, containerization / serverless readiness and potential modernization pathways
Conduct and Lead application dependency mapping and integration topology analysis
Lead technical interviews and workshops with client development, operations, and architecture teams to supplement automated discovery data with qualitative context
Produce formal Application Assessment Reports with executive summary, portfolio heat maps, technical findings, R-Treatment recommendations, and migration / modernization readiness scores per application
Design target state cloud architectures for complex, multi-tier enterprise applications — spanning web, middleware, and database layers across Java, .NET, and polyglot environments
Architect DevSecOps transformation pipelines including CI/CD design, automated testing integration, security scanning, and GitOps adoption for modernized application platforms
Develop and apply structured R-Treatment decision frameworks based on business value, technical health, cloud fit, and strategic priority
Define application placement strategies with precision — prescribing the right modernization treatment for each application across the 7-Rs
Design migration sequencing and wave planning strategies — balancing business priority, technical dependency order, risk concentration, and delivery team capacity across multi-year migration programs
Develop risk registers for migration programs, identifying application-level technical risks, integration risks, data migration dependencies, and organizational change management considerations
Translate assessment findings and migration strategy decisions into detailed, milestone driven, multi-horizon modernization roadmaps
Prepare business case for modernization roadmaps — quantifying expected outcomes while aligning them to Client organizational constraints
Develop application-level effort estimation models tied to migration wave plans — providing granular, defensible estimates by treatment type, application complexity, and integration scope
Partner with the Project Manager on customer readiness between Assessment reports and conversion milestone
Collaborate with the Lead Program Manager on deal structure, Phase 2 scope definition, and conversion metrics
Work alongside Engagement Leaders to ensure technical findings are accurately represented in the narrative