Job Summary
We are seeking a GCP Practice Architect to lead discovery, assessment, and architecture activities for application modernization and migration initiatives. The role will work with application owners, infrastructure teams, business stakeholders, project teams, clients, and partners to evaluate current-state environments and develop practical GCP-native architecture recommendations, migration pathways, risks, and remediation actions. The position requires strong ownership, communication, and the ability to navigate legacy environments and incomplete information while balancing modernization goals with application constraints, vendor support, risk, and operational considerations.

Key Responsibilities
• Lead discovery workshops with application owners, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders.
• Evaluate statefulness, data persistence, compute and data separation, deployment architecture, hosting models, and application dependencies.
• Assess compatibility with Managed Instance Groups, golden images, automated self-healing, and snapshot-based recovery.
• Review installer and upgrade behavior, data locations, licensing constraints, certificates, secrets, backup approaches, recovery procedures, and support models.
• Develop current-state findings, target-state GCP recommendations, migration pathways, risks, and remediation actions.
• Present technical findings and executive-level recommendations to stakeholders.
• Act as a trusted advisor with strong ownership and accountability.
• Facilitate clear and structured discussions with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Translate operational and business requirements into practical GCP-native architecture recommendations.
• Navigate legacy environments and incomplete information while maintaining progress toward project objectives.
• Balance modernization goals with application constraints, vendor support, risk, and operational realities.
• Work independently while collaborating closely with project, practice, client, and partner teams.