Senior Application Architect

We are seeking a Senior Application Architect for a Hybrid position in Austin, Texas. This position is mostly remote, but you must go into the client’s Austin Office when requested. 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, and you will play a critical role in consolidating and transitioning application support services across multiple departments into a centralized IT organization. You 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.Requirements:• 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-client applications and recommend effective enhancement/transition strategies.• Excellent communication skills with experience collaborating across diverse stakeholder groups.• Experience with application evaluations in c IT transformation initiatives is highly desirable.Preferred:• Experience as application lead in multi-department or enterprise-wide IT modernization and consolidation projects.