Senior Application Modernisation Architect

Codurance; Manchester; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Uncapped training support

Personal learning budget

Transparency

Private medical cover & life assurance

Pension top-up / holiday voucher

Employee assistance program (EAP)

Enhanced parental leave

EV & Cycle to Work Scheme

Job summary

Codurance is hiring an Application Modernisation Principal into Client Solutions, reporting to the Client Solutions Director. You\'ll spend about 40% of your time shaping modernisation work before it\'s sold, and 60% delivering it.

It\'s a senior, hands-on role with no line management, based in the UK with travel to client sites as engagements require. We want someone who can design the target architecture for modernising an aging application estate, then sit in front of a client CTO and explain

Qualifications

• Proven design and architecture of application modernisation moving legacy or monolithic systems to modern architectures in increments while the business keeps running
• Strong development background with hands-on credibility in at least one mainstream stack such as .NET, Java or Node.js
• Cloud-native delivery experience on at least one of Azure, AWS or GCP
• Engineering discipline: automated testing, CI/CD and safe, incremental change to legacy code
• Around five years or more in a consultancy, agency or embedded client delivery environment
• Evidence of client-facing work, such as shaping scope, running discovery, or explaining a technical approach to a non-technical buyer
• Credible AI literacy: you can explain how AI tooling changes modernisation work and have used it on real code in some form
• Care about how the work is done, including testing, pairing and passing knowledge to client teams

Responsibilities

• Own the modernisation architecture story in proposals and discovery: target architecture, migration approach and risk
• Join client calls and workshops, and explain technical approaches to non-technical buyers
• Help scope work, build estimates and defend them
• Shape repeatable modernisation offers, such as an assessment-to-roadmap package or a phased migration approach
• Lead or work hands-on in live modernisation engagements: architecture, decomposition, incremental migration and re-platforming
• Advise clients on how AI tooling changes modernisation work, and say plainly where it doesn't help
• Set architecture and engineering standards and mentor engineers, without line management
• Pass knowledge to client teams as the work goes, so they can run it themselves

Skills

Architecture design

Client-facing

Cloud-native delivery

AI literacy

Consultancy experience

Pre-sales experience

Delivery leadership

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

.NET

Java

Node.js

CI/CD

Job description

Codurance is hiring an Application Modernisation Principal into Client Solutions, reporting to the Client Solutions Director. You\'ll spend about 40% of your time shaping modernisation work before it\'s sold, and 60% delivering it.

It\'s a senior, hands-on role with no line management, based in the UK with travel to client sites as engagements require. We want someone who can design the target architecture for modernising an aging application estate, then sit in front of a client CTO and explain