The Application Architecture Consultant is responsible for designing evaluating and optimizing enterprise application architectures. This role involves working closely with business and technology stakeholders to align application strategies with organizational goals ensuring scalability security and performance. The consultant provides expert guidance on application modernization cloud adoption and integration best practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Application Architecture Design & Strategy:
- Develop enterprisewide application architecture strategies aligned with business objectives.
- Define principles guidelines and best practices for software development and application integration.
- Assess and recommend technology stacks frameworks and platforms based on business needs.
- Modernization & Cloud Adoption:
- Lead application modernization initiatives including cloud migration and microservices adoption.
- Evaluate legacy applications and recommend strategies for rearchitecting replatforming or replacing.
- Ensure cloudnative architectures (AWS Azure GCP) align with performance and security standards.
- Integration & API Management:
- Design robust integration architectures including APIfirst and eventdriven architectures.
- Ensure seamless communication between enterprise applications using middleware ESB or API gateways.
- Define and enforce governance models for API development and lifecycle management.
- Security & Compliance:
- Implement secure coding practices data protection mechanisms and identity management frameworks.
- Ensure application architectures comply with industry standards (e.g. OWASP ISO 27001 NIST).
- Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement:
- Work with enterprise architects business leaders and development teams to define architecture roadmaps.
- Provide technical leadership mentoring teams on best practices in software and application design.
- Conduct architecture reviews proofofconcepts and feasibility assessments for new technologies.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Education:
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field.
- Experience:
- 8 years of experience in application architecture enterprise architecture or software development.
- Strong background in designing scalable resilient and secure enterprise applications.
- Experience in cloud computing (AWS Azure GCP) and containerization (Docker Kubernetes).
- Proficiency in modern application frameworks (Spring Boot .NET Core Node.js Angular React).
- Skills & Certifications:
- Expertise in software architecture patterns (microservices eventdriven SOA).
- Strong knowledge of DevOps practices CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (IaC).
- Familiarity with enterprise integration platforms (Mulesoft Apache Kafka Azure Logic Apps).
- Certifications such as TOGAF AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect are a plus.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in consulting or advisory roles within large enterprises or government organizations.
- Knowledge of AIdriven application development edge computing and blockchain solutions.
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