Job Summary
The Applications Migration Lead Architect is responsible for leading discovery, assessment, design, and governance of enterprise integration environments, interfaces, and connectivity solutions. The role focuses on developing integration architectures and migration strategies that support application, data, and business process interoperability. The architect provides technical leadership for integration platform deployments, upgrades, migrations, and optimization initiatives while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards and best practices.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead discovery and assessment activities for enterprise integration environments, interfaces, and connectivity solutions.
• Design and define integration architectures supporting application, data, and business process interoperability.
• Assess existing interfaces, dependencies, communication protocols, and integration patterns to support transformation and modernization initiatives.
• Develop integration strategies, implementation roadmaps, and transition plans.
• Design and govern API, middleware, and event-driven integration solutions.
• Analyze application-to-application, business-to-business, and external partner connectivity requirements.
• Define interface standards, integration governance processes, and architectural best practices.
• Provide technical leadership for integration platform deployments, upgrades, migrations, and optimization initiatives.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, and business teams to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
• Support effort estimation, planning, risk management, and dependency analysis activities.
• Review technical designs and implementation plans to ensure scalability, reliability, maintainability, and security.
• Facilitate technical workshops, architecture reviews, and design discussions with stakeholders.
• Support testing, deployment planning, cutover readiness, and operational transition activities.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to development and support teams on integration best practices.
Required Qualifications
• 8+ years of experience designing and implementing enterprise integration solutions.
• 8+ years of experience with middleware platforms, integration technologies, and API management solutions.
• 8+ years of experience designing RESTful and SOAP-based service integrations.
• 5+ years of experience conducting interface inventory analysis, dependency mapping, and integration assessments.
• 5+ years of experience leading technical workshops and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.