ARCHITECT LEAD APPLICATION MODERNIZATION

Tech Talent International (SI) supplies technical talent to a variety of clients ranging from Fortune 100/500/1000 companies to small and mid-sized organizations in Canada/US and Europe.

We currently have a role as an ARCHITECT / LEAD APPLICATION MODERNIZATION with our large consulting client working for a large modernization project for apublic sector crown corporation in the Montreal area.

Role: ARCHITECT / LEAD APPLICATION MODERNIZATION

Type: Permanent or Long Term Contract

Location: Hybrid - Montreal QC -(2/3 days per week onsite)

Salary: Base salary ranges from $150000 - $165000 (depending on experience) 9% bonus 4-5 weeks paid vacation 6% RRSP matching benefits sick/personal day cell phone allowance discounts for public transit and may other perks

Contract Pay Rate: $110 - $130/hr (freelance/incorporated)

Language Requirements: English & French

Key Info: Candidates must be based out of Quebec

Support the progressive modernization of legacy applications towards the organizations target architectures. Act as a technical leader within a multidisciplinary squad and drive architecture decisions to accelerate transformation while reducing operational risks.

Responsibilities

• Perform analysis of existing systems their architecture and dependencies.
• Map application flows and integrations.
• Define the target architecture and modernization trajectories.
• Develop strategies for slicing refactoring and incremental migration.
• Support the development teams in the implementation of solutions.
• Participate in technology governance and architecture reviews.
• Define the standards of quality safety performance and resilience.
• Supervise the implementation of DevOps and CI/CD practices.
• Contribute to the observability monitoring and exploitation strategy.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners Enterprise Architects and Operations Teams.

Desired experience

• 10 years and more in software development and architecture.
• Demonstrated experience in modernizing legacy applications.
• Participation in large-scale transformation or migration programs.
• Recognized technical leadership with multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to communicate with technical and business stakeholders.

Environments and technologies sought

Architecture & Modernization

• Service-oriented architecture (SOA)
• Microservices
• Domain Driven Design (DDD)
• API First
• Event Driven Architecture
• Distributed architecture

Development

• Java
• .NET
• Spring Boot
• Core

Integration

• API REST
• GraphQL
• Kafka
• RabbitMQ

Cloud & Platforms

• Azure
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift
• Docker

DevOps

• Azure DevOps
• Git
• CI/CD
• Infrastructure as Code

Observability & Operations

• Dynatrace
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Elastic Stack
• OpenTelemetry

Methods

• Agile Scrum
• SAFe
• DevSecOps

Ideal profile

Senior professional with the ability to quickly assess a complex application estate establish a realistic modernization roadmap and guide teams toward a modern high-performance and actionable target architecture.