Strategic Application Decommissioning Lead (Discovery & Roadmap)

Consult; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Consult in Glasgow, Scotland, is seeking an experienced Application Decommissioning Lead to orchestrate discovery across multiple streams and deliver a consolidated decommissioning roadmap. This hands-on, senior consultancy role requires strong experience in decommissioning programs and effective workshop facilitation with SMEs.

You will define information requirements, build a Dependency Register, and produce the Assessment Report and Runbooks to enable controlled retirement and rationalisation

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in application/technology consulting, refurbishment or ITSM.
• Proven experience in application decommissioning, retirement, rationalisation or technology modernisation programmes.
• Experience facilitating technical workshops with multiple SME groups and strong stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Define information requirements and assessment templates for each workstream.
• Develop and maintain an integrated Dependency Register.
• Define a Runbook template for decommissioning across application, infrastructure, network, database, security, integration and operations.
• Challenge and reconcile information from different SME groups.
• Define recommended decommissioning approaches for each application.
• Identify prerequisites, sequencing and key activities for execution.
• Develop a high-level decommissioning roadmap and execution strategy.
• Review/update the decommissioning strategy, governance model, RACI, gates and success criteria.
• Produce the consolidated Assessment Report and Discovery deliverables.
• Support development of Decommissioning Entry Criteria Checklist.

Skills

15+ years exp

App decommissioning

Workshop facilitation

Stakeholder management

Enterprise app landscape

Multi-team collaboration

Java/web apps

APIs integrations

Databases

Cloud infrastructure

IAM/AD and certificates

Monitoring tools

Dependency mapping

Impact assessment

Job description

Consult in Glasgow, Scotland, is seeking an experienced Application Decommissioning Lead to orchestrate discovery across multiple streams and deliver a consolidated decommissioning roadmap. This hands-on, senior consultancy role requires strong experience in decommissioning programs and effective workshop facilitation with SMEs.

You will define information requirements, build a Dependency Register, and produce the Assessment Report and Runbooks to enable controlled retirement and rationalisation