ARCHITECT / LEAD APPLICATION MODERNIZATION

Tech Talent International

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 a public 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 $150,000 - $165,000 (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 organization's 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

• ASP.NET 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.