Application Architect
Role Overview
Defines and evolves enterprise application architecture to support business capabilities, digital transformation, integration, security, and enterprise standards.
Focuses on application landscape assessment, target-state design, portfolio optimization, modernization, rationalization, interoperability, and technology alignment.
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Role overview
Defines and evolves enterprise application architecture to support business capabilities, digital transformation, integration, security, and enterprise standards.
Focuses on application landscape assessment, target-state design, portfolio optimization, modernization, rationalization, interoperability, and technology alignment.
Responsibilities
- Assess applications, platforms, interfaces, dependencies, lifecycle status, and functional coverage; map applications to capabilities, services, processes, data domains, and platforms.
- Design target states, transition roadmaps, interaction models, cooperation views, dependency maps, and integration touchpoints.
- Identify duplication, gaps, technical debt, modernization and rationalization opportunities; support replacement, consolidation, retirement, and cloud migration.
- Define principles, standards, patterns, and reference architectures; guide APIs, microservices, modular applications, event-driven solutions, and modern platforms.
- Collaborate across architecture and technology teams; assess solution options for scalability, maintainability, interoperability, resilience, security, and standards alignment.
- Support portfolio and lifecycle management, architecture governance, design reviews, Architecture Review Boards, RFPs, vendor evaluations, and application selection.
Required experience
- 8–10 years in application development, software engineering, solution design, application architecture, or related disciplines.
- At least 4–5 years of hands-on Application Architecture or comparable senior architecture experience.
- Demonstrated experience assessing and designing complex enterprise application landscapes.
- Experience with application modernization, rationalization, integration, cloud adoption, or digital transformation programs.
- Strong understanding of enterprise application patterns, APIs, services, integration approaches, and distributed application architectures.
- Experience working with senior business stakeholders, project teams, developers, vendors, and architecture governance bodies.
Preferred frameworks and tools
- Preferred frameworks and methods include TOGAF, ArchiMate, UML, BPMN where relevant, service-oriented and microservices principles, API-first and event-driven patterns, cloud architecture frameworks, and DevOps/DevSecOps concepts.
- Preferred tool exposure includes Bizzdesign, Sparx Enterprise Architect, Orbus/iServer, ARIS, similar enterprise architecture tools, API management, integration and messaging technologies, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and portfolio or lifecycle tools.
Preferred qualifications
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline is preferred.
- TOGAF certification is highly desirable; ArchiMate certification is desirable, and cloud architecture, software architecture, application development, or DevOps certifications are advantageous.
Personal attributes
Seeks analytical problem-solving, clear architecture recommendations, strong communication and facilitation, stakeholder management, cross-team collaboration, attention to quality and traceability, and a consulting mindset.
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