Applications Migration lead Architect

Role: Applications Migration lead Architect

Location: Dallas, TX (Remote)

Type: Contract

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.

Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience designing and implementing enterprise integration solutions.
• 8+ years experience with middleware platforms, integration technologies, and API management solutions.
• 8+ years experience designing RESTful and SOAP-based service integrations.
• 5+ years experience conducting interface inventory analysis, dependency mapping, and integration assessments.
• 5+ years’ experience leading technical workshops and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.