Senior Migration and Transformation Architect

Role: Senior Migration and Transformation Architect

Location: Dallas, TX (Remote)

Type: Contract

Overview:

• The Senior Migration and Transformation Architect is responsible for leading the assessment, planning, design, and execution of large-scale application, infrastructure, and data transformation initiatives. This role works closely with technical and business stakeholders to define migration strategies, identify risks and dependencies, and ensure successful delivery of modernization and migration programs.
• The successful candidate will provide technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle, including discovery, solution design, planning, implementation oversight, testing, and transition activities. This role requires strong consulting, architecture, and stakeholder management skills, along with experience delivering complex technology transformation programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and assessment activities to evaluate the current technology landscape.
• Define migration and transformation strategies aligned with business and technical objectives.
• Develop solution architectures, migration approaches, implementation roadmaps, and transition plans.
• Analyze applications, infrastructure, integrations, and data dependencies to support migration planning.
• Identify project risks, assumptions, constraints, and mitigation strategies.
• Provide architectural guidance and governance throughout project execution.
• Support effort estimation, project planning, and delivery management activities.
• Review solution designs and implementation plans to ensure compliance with architectural standards and best practices.
• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder discussions, and architecture reviews.
• Define testing, validation, and acceptance criteria for migration and transformation activities.
• Support knowledge transfer and operational readiness activities during project transition.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, cloud transformation, or migration programs.
• 5+ Experience designing and implementing large-scale technology migration and modernization initiatives.
• Strong understanding of application architectures, infrastructure platforms, networking, security, and data management concepts.
• 5+Experience performing technology assessments, dependency analysis, and migration planning.
• 5+ Demonstrated experience developing target-state architectures and transformation roadmaps.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication, and presentation skills.
• 5+ Experience leading technical workshops and architecture review sessions.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities across complex delivery environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.