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Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSAzureCloudITSMJavaOracle
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead the discovery phase of an application decommissioning programme
- Coordinate across Application, Infrastructure, Network, Database, Security, Integration, and Operations workstreams
- Lead end-to-end discovery across all technical workstreams
- Define information requirements and assessment templates for each workstream
- Build and maintain an integrated Dependency Register, reconciling findings from SME groups
- Define recommended decommissioning approaches, including prerequisites, sequencing, and execution activities
- Create a decommissioning runbook template covering workstreams, governance approvals, and backup
- Develop a high-level roadmap and execution strategy
- Review and update governance models, RACI, approval gates, success criteria, and entry checklists
- Produce consolidated Assessment Reports and discovery deliverables identifying benefit trigger points and realisation of benefits
Requirements
What you’ll need- Over 15 years in application/technology consulting, application rationalisation, transformation, or IT service management
- Proven delivery on application decommissioning, retirement, rationalisation, or modernisation programmes
- Hands-on experience with application dependency mapping and impact assessment in complex enterprise environments
- Strong technical knowledge in Java/web applications, APIs and integrations, databases, batch processing, cloud infrastructure, network dependencies, IAM/Active Directory, certificates, and monitoring/operational tooling
- Confidence in challenging technical findings and identifying gaps
- Skilled in facilitating workshops with multiple SMEs and strong stakeholder management
- Desirable: application portfolio rationalisation and large-scale legacy retirement programmes
- Desirable: data retention and archival
- Desirable: cloud migration/modernisation on AWS or Azure
- Desirable: experience with Java/Oracle ecosystems and MuleSoft/API integrations
- Desirable: knowledge of ITIL/service management and enterprise architecture
Benefits
Comp & perks- Probable extension after the initial 3-month engagement
- Outside IR35 contract status, pending final determination