Application Architect

FedEx; Memphis (TN); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 218,000; Full time

Job summary

FedEx is seeking a senior architect to lead the modernization of enterprise applications with a focus on Google Cloud Platform. The role requires guiding design that improves performance, scalability, reliability, and cloud readiness.

You will collaborate with engineering leaders to align architecture with enterprise strategy and governance. Ideal candidates will have strong Java/Spring Boot experience, and a track record of reducing technical debt while leveraging AI tools to accelerate

Qualifications

• Experience architecting or modernizing large enterprise apps.
• Design for GCP and cloud-ready, scalable, secure systems.
• Strong Java-based enterprise app knowledge; Spring/Spring Boot.
• Ability to communicate complex tech to non-technical audiences.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and modernization of enterprise apps for GCP.
• Improve performance, scalability, reliability, and cloud readiness.
• Assess and plan architectural changes to meet cloud standards.
• Upgrade dependencies and reduce technical debt and security risk.
• Drive adoption of architecture standards across teams.
• Create architecture diagrams and roadmaps for stakeholders.

Skills

Architecture

GCP

Java

Spring Boot

Cloud readiness

AI tools

Leadership

Communication

Tools

Sparx EA

Visio

Job description

This is a hybrid position located in Memphis TN & Pittsburg PA. Candidates must live within 50 miles of the campus location. Employees will be required to work at the FedEx campus location several times per week.

Essential Functions / Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, modernization, and technical evolution of existing enterprise applications, with a focus on preparing and optimizing applications to run effectively within Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Design application functionality and identify opportunities to improve the performance, scalability, reliability, and cloud readiness of Java-based applications.
• Assess existing applications and platforms to determine necessary architectural changes, upgrades, and modernization efforts required to meet public cloud infrastructure standards.
• Proactively upgrade application dependencies, frameworks, and libraries while identifying and remediating vulnerabilities to reduce technical debt, security risk, and long-term maintenance challenges.
• Identify process and technical improvements that reduce developer friction, repetitive work, and time spent resolving avoidable engineering issues.
• Leverage Claude, GitHub Copilot, Large Language Models, and other AI-assisted development tools to accelerate development, troubleshooting, modernization, documentation, and overall delivery.
• Serve as a technical leader and architectural resource for development teams, helping engineers make sound design decisions and implement established architectural standards.
• Collaborate closely with developers, architects, engineering leaders, and cross-functional partners to establish and propagate architecture and engineering best practices across teams and the broader organization.
• Develop and communicate application architecture diagrams, technical designs, solution recommendations, and modernization roadmaps using tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect, Visio, or similar platforms.
• Present technical concepts, architectural recommendations, risks, and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.
• Drive architectural initiatives forward by building alignment across teams, challenging existing approaches when appropriate, and helping move technical decisions through leadership and governance processes.
• Maintain a strong understanding of the broader application/platform ecosystem and ensure individual application decisions align with enterprise architecture and cloud strategy.

Required Skills / Qualifications

• Strong experience with application architecture, software architecture, or technical architecture within a large or complex enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated experience designing, modernizing, or migrating applications for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or a comparable public cloud environment.
• Strong working knowledge of Java-based enterprise applications, ideally including modern Java and Spring/Spring Boot.
• Experience evaluating existing applications and determining the changes necessary to make them cloud-ready, scalable, secure, and maintainable.
• Strong understanding of application architecture principles, design patterns, integrations, dependencies, APIs, and distributed application environments.
• Experience identifying and addressing technical debt, application vulnerabilities, outdated dependencies, and legacy technology concerns.
• Experience creating and communicating architectural designs using tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect, Microsoft Visio, or similar architecture/diagramming tools.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted software development, including tools such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, LLMs, or comparable generative AI technologies.
• Strong presentation and communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical information for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a technical leader and influencer, working across development teams without necessarily having direct management responsibility.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to independently identify opportunities for technical and process improvement.
• Ability to drive initiatives through ambiguity, gain stakeholder alignment, and move architectural recommendations through senior leadership and organizational decision-making processes.

Nice to Have

• Experience presenting architecture strategy, modernization recommendations, or major technical initiatives directly to executive-level stakeholders.
• Experience leading large-scale application modernization or public cloud transformation initiatives.
• Deep experience with GCP-native services, cloud architecture patterns, and application modernization strategies.
• Experience establishing or improving enterprise-wide architecture standards, reusable patterns, governance, or development best practices.
• Experience using AI/LLM tools beyond basic code generation, including applications such as architecture analysis, documentation, dependency modernization, troubleshooting, testing, or developer productivity improvements.
• Experience with large, highly integrated enterprise platforms where architectural decisions span multiple applications, development teams, and business functions.
• Demonstrated track record of influencing senior technical leaders and successfully driving adoption of new platforms, standards, technologies, or architectural approaches.

Pay Ranges: USA: $8,007.29/mo - $18,149.85/mo, CO: $8,007.29/mo - $17,393.61/mo, CA: $8,452.14/mo - $14,413.11/mo, NJ: $8,452.14/mo - $13,523.42/mo, OH & VT: $8,452.14/mo - $14,368.63/mo, MN: $8,452.14/mo - $16,637.36/mo, IL & NV: $8,452.14/mo - $17,393.61/mo, MD, NY & WA: $8,452.14/mo - $18,149.85/mo, MA: $8,896.99/mo - $18,149.85/mo, RI: $9,786.68/mo - $16,637.36/mo, CT: $9,786.68/mo - $17,393.61/mo, DC & HI: $10,231.53/mo - $17,393.61/mo, NYC: $10,231.53/mo - $18,149.85/mo

Pay Transparency: This compensation range is provided as a reasonable estimate of the current starting salary range for this role across all potential locations. If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the range is a reasonable estimate of the current starting salary for the lowest level to the current starting salary of the highest level. Actual starting pay would be determined by experience relative to the job, market level, pay at the location for this job and other job-related factors permitted by law. An employee may be eligible for additional pay, premiums, or bonus potential. The Company offers eligible employees health, vision and dental insurance, retirement, and tuition reimbursement

Pay: US: $8,007.29/mo - $18,149.85/mo, CO: $8,007.29/mo - $17,393.61/mo, MD: $8,452.14/mo - $18,149.85/mo, NJ: $8,452.14/mo - $18,149.85/mo, NY: $8,452.14/mo - $18,149.85/mo, NYC: $10,231.53/mo - $18,149.85/mo, WA: $8,452.14/mo - $18,149.85/mo

Federal Express Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer including, Vets/Disability.

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