Cloud Application and Migration Architect

Procom Consultants Group; Dearborn (MI); On-site; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT services provider is seeking a Cloud Application and Migration Architect for a contract opportunity in Dearborn, MI. The role involves designing the architecture for application migrations to a new data center, interacting with C-level executives, and leading onshore and offshore teams. Ideal candidates have experience in managing multiple project teams, cloud application strategies, and assessing application portfolios. This contract assignment is expected to last 12+ months.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to communicate effectively with C-level executives.
• Experience managing 10+ project teams with defined KPIs.
• Expertise in cloud application development and deployment strategies.

Responsibilities

• Design architecture for application migration projects.
• Analyze application portfolios to create migration groups.
• Direct teams on analysis, remediation, and migration activities.

Skills

Communication with C-level executives

Managing multiple teams

Cloud application development expertise

Data center service framework design

ITIL framework experience

Job description

Cloud Application and Migration Architect

Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada. With revenues over $500 million, the Branham Group has recognized Procom as the 3rd largest professional services firm in Canada and is now the largest “Canadian-Owned” IT staffing/consulting company.

Procom’s areas of staffing expertise include:

• Application Development
• Project Management
• Quality Assurance
• Business/Systems Analysis
• Datawarehouse & Business Intelligence
• Infrastructure & Network Services
• Risk Management & Compliance
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
• Security & Privacy

Specialties

• Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation)
• Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation)
• ICAP (Contractor Payroll)
• Flextrack (Vendor Management System)

Cloud Application and Migration Architect

On behalf of our client, Procom Services is searching for a Cloud Application and Migration Architect for a contract opportunity in Dearborn, MI.

Job Details

Design the architecture for a major application migration project for a large manufacturing company to transfer applications from a legacy data center into a cutting edge technology data center. Provide front line representation of the project to C-level executives. Analyze application portfolio to create application migration groups. Define application design, development, and deployment strategy for private cloud and public cloud. Direct onshore and offshore teams to perform analysis, remediation, and application migration activities. Design the migration factory.

Mandatory Skills

• Ability to communicate with C-level executives about project status and overall project vision
• Experience managing 10+ teams, defining KPIs for the project activities, and measuring the teams' progress against defined KPIs
• Ability to provide expert strategic advice for cloud application development, cloud application deployment, private versus public cloud options, virtualization, containerization, and DevOps
• Ability to describe data center service framework design
• Ability to provide expert strategic advice for data center migration strategy and key components of a data center migration
• Ability to discover application characteristics of mainframe, midrange, and Wintel applications that will help define migration groups
• Experience assessing applications and application architecture
• Prepare a technical and architecture plan to achieve the stated goal and adjust the plans according to progress and interdependencies
• Experience with ITIL framework

Start Date

ASAP

Assignment Length

12+ months

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Please send your resume in Word format only.