Application Architect – Cloud Migration to Google Cloud Platform

Position : Application Architect – Cloud Migration to Google Cloud Platform : Only USA

Location : New York- Onsite or Travel to New York

Type of Contract : 12 Months

Experience : 15+ Years

ROLE SUMMARY

The Application Architect owns the target-state application architecture for migrating enterprise applications from AWS and Azure to Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform). The role decides, application by application, whether to rehost, replatform, refactor or re-engineer, and then leads teams through zero-downtime cutovers.

This is a hands-on leadership role. The architect works with business and technology stakeholders, the infrastructure architect, the PMO, and onshore and offshore engineering teams. The goal is a modern, scalable application estate on Google Cloud Platform, not a copy of the current AWS or Azure environment.

Attribute Detail

Level Principal / Lead Architect

Experience 12–15+ years

Reports to VP Engineering / CTO or Chief Architect

Source clouds AWS, Azure

Target cloud Google Cloud Platform

Key partners Infrastructure Architect, security, DevOps, PMO, offshore delivery teams

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

12–15+ years in software engineering and application or solution architecture in high-scale distributed environments.

Direct experience migrating applications from AWS and/or Azure to Google Cloud Platform, including at least one zero-downtime production cutover.

Proven ability to reverse-engineer legacy applications and redesign them as scalable, highly available Google Cloud Platform architectures.

Deep expertise in microservices, microfrontends, APIs, event-driven design and sidecar/service-mesh patterns.

Strong working knowledge of GKE, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, Memorystore, Apigee and Secret Manager, and their AWS/Azure equivalents.

Extensive Kafka streaming and Redis/Valkey caching design experience.

Data migration experience across relational and NoSQL stores with zero data loss.

Practical use of TOGAF or Domain-Driven Design, and a record of leading ADR and DAR forums.

Code-level credibility in Java/Spring Boot, Python, React.js and Kotlin.

Experience leading distributed onshore and offshore teams and working with a PMO.

Target technology stack

Area Technologies

Cloud Google Cloud Platform (target); AWS and Azure (sources)

Compute and runtime GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Istio

Backend Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Kotlin, Python, REST APIs, Apigee

Web and mobile React.js, microfrontends, native/hybrid mobile, BFF

Streaming and caching Apache Kafka, Pub/Sub, Redis, Valkey, Memorystore

Data Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Firestore, Cosmos DB

DevOps and observability Azure DevOps, ArgoCD, Datadog, Cloud Operations, JProfiler

Governance and AI ADR, DAR, TOGAF, DDD, Copilot, Cursor