Application Decommissioning & Discovery Lead

LA International; Glasgow; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

LA International is recruiting an experienced Application Decommissioning Consultant to lead discovery and end-to-end decommissioning initiatives across complex enterprise environments in the UK. You will coordinate across Application, Infrastructure, Network, Database, Security, Integration and Operations streams from discovery through to governance delivery.

You will own the dependency mapping, Runbook development, and decommissioning strategy, working with SMEs to define requirements, manage

Qualifications

• Proven application decommissioning, retirement, rationalisation or technology modernisation experience is essential.
• Experience in application/technology consulting, rationalisation, transformation or ITSM.
• Strong understanding of complex enterprise application landscapes and dependencies.
• Experience across Application, Infrastructure, Network, Database, Security and Operations teams.
• Strong knowledge of Java/web apps, APIs, integrations and databases.
• Understanding of batch processing, cloud infra and network dependencies.
• Knowledge of IAM, Active Directory, certificates, monitoring and tooling.
• Strong application dependency mapping and impact assessment experience.
• Experience facilitating technical workshops with multiple SME groups.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to challenge findings and reconcile information across workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Define information requirements and assessment templates across technical workstreams.
• Develop and maintain an integrated Dependency Register.
• Define Runbook templates covering tech workstreams, governance and backups.
• Challenge and reconcile conflicting information from SME groups.
• Define recommended decommissioning approach for each application.
• Identify prerequisites, dependencies, sequencing, and execution activities.
• Develop a high-level decommissioning roadmap and execution strategy.
• Review and update the Decommissioning Strategy including governance and gates.
• Produce consolidated Assessment Reports and deliverables.
• Develop the Decommissioning Entry Criteria Checklist.
• Facilitate technical discovery workshops across multiple SME groups.

Skills

Application decommissioning

Technology modernisation

Stakeholder management

Workshop facilitation

Discovery coordination

Complex enterprise apps

Tools

IAM

Active Directory

Monitoring tools

Operational tooling

Job description

LA International is recruiting an experienced Application Decommissioning Consultant to lead discovery and end-to-end decommissioning initiatives across complex enterprise environments in the UK. You will coordinate across Application, Infrastructure, Network, Database, Security, Integration and Operations streams from discovery through to governance delivery.

You will own the dependency mapping, Runbook development, and decommissioning strategy, working with SMEs to define requirements, manage