Legacy Application Solution Architect

Description

The company runs and modernizes mission-critical technology systems for large businesses worldwide, combining proven expertise with AI-powered insight.

The team values belonging, continuous learning and well-being, and the work involves building systems that customers rely on every day.

Responsibilities

• Run client discovery sessions, modernization assessments and technical due diligence.
• Lead workshops, design sessions and architecture reviews with stakeholders from several functions.
• Assess application portfolios and legacy estates to map business capabilities, dependencies, risks, modernization options and migration complexity.
• Advise senior client leaders on modernization strategy and roadmaps, including decisions on AI adoption.
• Analyze application architectures, technologies, batch processing and integration patterns.
• Define target-state architectures, modernization strategies and implementation roadmaps.
• Produce architecture deliverables such as assessment reports, dependency maps, migration plans, testing strategies and roadmaps.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture governance, design reviews, implementation oversight and solution assurance.
• Guide delivery teams on modernization tooling, testing, DevSecOps, migration planning and cutover readiness.
• Use AI-assisted analysis and the company's modernization accelerators to speed up discovery, dependency analysis, code understanding, testing, documentation and migration planning.
• Find where agentic AI and automation can speed up modernization delivery and improve client results.
• Define integration patterns that connect AI agents to enterprise systems such as CRMs, ERPs, APIs and data lakes.
• Support proposals, Statements of Work, RFP responses, solution estimates and opportunity shaping.
• Write architecture narratives and present modernization recommendations to business and technical audiences.

Requirements

• 10+ years in application architecture, software engineering, enterprise modernization or technical consulting.
• Hands-on development in legacy or modern languages such as COBOL, PL/I, Java or C.
• Proven leadership of architecture in large-scale application modernization, migration or transformation programs.
• Proven record in client-facing advisory or pre-sales architecture roles.
• Experience with IBM Z, Fujitsu, Unisys or comparable legacy platforms, including COBOL, PL/I, JCL, CICS, IMS, DB2, VSAM, MQ, batch processing and related modernization patterns.
• Experience assessing complex application portfolios and defining modernization strategies.
• Experience using AI-assisted modernization tools, with familiarity with responsible AI principles, data privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA) and enterprise security requirements.
• Solid understanding of enterprise application, integration, data, security and cloud architectures in hybrid environments.
• Ability to analyze dependencies, batch flows, interfaces, databases, operational processes and technical risks to set modernization scope and architecture recommendations.
• Experience defining target-state, transition-state and migration architectures and implementation roadmaps.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to turn business objectives into architecture and modernization plans.
• Customer-success mindset, with a drive to keep learning and innovating.
• Preferred: experience in a management consulting or professional services firm.
• Preferred: background in one or more verticals: Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail/CPG, Telecommunications, Manufacturing or the Public Sector.
• Preferred: certifications such as AWS, Azure or GCP Solutions Architect, Google PDE, or equivalent.

Conditions

Hybrid-friendly work model.

The company welcomes people of all cultures, backgrounds and experiences, and encourages applications even if you do not meet every requirement.

Benefits

• Be Well programs supporting financial, mental, physical and social health.
• Tools to plan your career path, personal development goals aligned with your ambitions, and regular feedback.
• Access to certifications from Microsoft, Google and Amazon, plus coaching and hands-on learning opportunities.