Application Architect

Role Overview

Application Architect at JODAYN. The role defines, assesses, and evolves enterprise application architecture to ensure the application landscape supports business capabilities, digital transformation priorities, integration needs, security requirements, and enterprise architecture standards.

Role Purpose

Focus on current-state application assessment, target-state design, application portfolio optimization, modernization, rationalization, interoperability, and alignment with enterprise technology direction.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture Development & Governance

• Develop and maintain the enterprise application architecture in alignment with business strategy and enterprise architecture direction.
• Define application architecture principles, standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
• Participate in architecture governance, design reviews, and Architecture Review Boards.
• Identify application architecture risks, dependencies, constraints, and remediation actions.

Application Assessment & Analysis

• Assess the current application landscape, including business applications, platforms, interfaces, dependencies, lifecycle status, and functional coverage.
• Map applications to business capabilities, business services, processes, data domains, and technology platforms.
• Identify duplication, functional overlap, application gaps, technical debt, and rationalization opportunities across the application portfolio.
• Evaluate application scalability, maintainability, interoperability, resilience, security, and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Assess commercial-off-the-shelf, SaaS, custom-developed, and platform-based solutions from an architecture perspective.

Target-State Design & Modernization

• Define target-state application architecture and transition roadmaps supporting business and digital transformation initiatives.
• Support application modernization, replacement, consolidation, retirement, and cloud migration initiatives.
• Design application interaction models, application cooperation views, dependency maps, and integration touchpoints.
• Provide architecture guidance for APIs, microservices, modular applications, event-driven solutions, and modern application platforms.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with solution, integration, data, cloud, infrastructure, and security architects to ensure coherent end-to-end architectures.
• Work with business and technology stakeholders to ensure application architecture decisions are practical, traceable, and aligned with business needs.
• Support Application Portfolio Management and technology lifecycle management activities.
• Support RFP development, vendor evaluation, technical assessments, and application selection processes.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum 8-10 years of experience in application development, software engineering, solution design, application architecture, or related disciplines.
• At least 4-5 years of hands-on experience in Application Architecture or a comparable senior architecture role.
• Demonstrated experience assessing and designing complex enterprise application landscapes.
• Experience with application modernization, rationalization, integration, cloud adoption, or digital transformation programs.
• Strong understanding of enterprise application patterns, APIs, services, integration approaches, and distributed application architectures.
• Experience working with senior business stakeholders, project teams, developers, vendors, and architecture governance bodies.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.

Skills & Competencies

• Enterprise Application Architecture.
• Application portfolio assessment and rationalization.
• Application capability mapping.
• Target-state application design.
• Application modernization.
• Application integration and interoperability.
• API and service-oriented architecture.
• Microservices and event-driven architecture concepts.
• Cloud-native and hybrid application architecture.
• Application lifecycle and technical debt management.
• Architecture governance and assurance.
• Technology and vendor evaluation.
• Stakeholder management and consulting.
• Architecture modeling and documentation.
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving capability.
• Ability to assess complex application landscapes and translate findings into clear architecture recommendations.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work effectively across business, architecture, development, and infrastructure teams.
• Strong attention to architecture quality, consistency, and traceability.
• Consulting mindset with the ability to manage multiple priorities and workstreams.

Additional Information

Preferred Frameworks, Standards & Methods

• TOGAF.
• ArchiMate.
• UML.
• BPMN where relevant.
• Service-oriented architecture and microservices principles.
• API-first and event-driven architecture patterns.
• Cloud architecture frameworks and well-architected principles.
• DevOps and DevSecOps concepts.

Preferred Tools & Technology

• Enterprise architecture tools such as Bizzdesign, Sparx Enterprise Architect, Orbus/iServer, ARIS, or similar platforms.
• Modern application development platforms and enterprise software ecosystems.
• API management, integration, middleware, and messaging technologies.
• Containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• Application Portfolio Management and software lifecycle tools.

Preferred Certifications

• TOGAF certification is highly desirable.
• ArchiMate certification is desirable.
• Cloud architecture, software architecture, application development, or DevOps certifications are advantageous.