Strategic Technical Architect — 12-Month Onsite Contract

Pyramid, Inc; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 171,924,000 - 200,579,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid sick leave

Job summary

Pyramid Consulting, Inc. is seeking a skilled Technical Architect for a 12-month contract in Northridge, CA.

The role is onsite and focuses on assessing applications, rationalization, and modernization while coordinating with stakeholders to ensure alignment with security and regulatory requirements. The ideal candidate will lead architecture decisions, define target-state patterns, and craft transition plans for complex enterprise environments, including TSA-related considerations and

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in application or solution architecture.
• 5 years of experience assessing enterprise application portfolios.
• 3 years of experience delivering application rationalization or modernization programs.
• Experience with TSA exit, separation, divestiture, or carve-out initiatives.
• Experience with SaaS, facilities, workplace, and physical security applications.
• Strong understanding of Azure and/or AWS architecture and integration patterns.
• Ability to develop current-state and target-state architecture and executive presentations.
• Strong stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, analytical, and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Inventory and assess applications, interfaces, data flows, infrastructure dependencies, support models, costs, risks, and business criticality.
• Lead stakeholder workshops to capture functional, technical, security, compliance, operational, and continuity requirements.
• Define application disposition criteria and develop evidence-based recommendations for retain, modernize, rationalize, replace, replatform, or retire decisions.
• Create target-state architecture, integration patterns, migration sequencing, transition plans, and decommissioning roadmaps.
• Support TSA exit, separation, or carve-out planning by identifying dependencies, exit risks, interim solutions, and cutover requirements.
• Establish architecture governance, decision records, standards, and traceability across the rationalization program.
• Collaborate with business, application, infrastructure, security, compliance, data, and operations teams to validate recommendations and implementation feasibility.
• Present findings, options, risks, costs, and recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders.

Job description

Pyramid Consulting, Inc. is seeking a skilled Technical Architect for a 12-month contract in Northridge, CA.

The role is onsite and focuses on assessing applications, rationalization, and modernization while coordinating with stakeholders to ensure alignment with security and regulatory requirements. The ideal candidate will lead architecture decisions, define target-state patterns, and craft transition plans for complex enterprise environments, including TSA-related considerations and