Senior Application Architect - Azure PaaS

- Lead thorough application discovery and portfolio assessment efforts across all environments - Document application purposes, business owners, user bases, criticalities, and regulatory requirements - Analyze application architectures, including runtime platforms, frameworks, APIs, middleware, and integration patterns - Identify and document technical dependencies within compute, VMware, databases, storage, identity, messaging, and network layers - Assess operational maturity, including monitoring, logging, patching, backup, and support processes - Evaluate non-functional attributes such as performance, scalability, availability, security posture, and resilience - Identify application risks, including technical debt, unsupported components, licensing limitations, and vendor dependencies - Classify applications by their integration readiness and modernization strategies (rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, retain) - Define application integration sequencing in alignment with infrastructure, network, and database readiness - Create comprehensive transition runbooks covering preparation, migration, validation, rollback, and stabilization - Identify opportunities for consolidation, rationalization, cost optimization, and cloud modernization - Collaborate closely with Solution, Database, Network, Security, and Operations teams - Support executive and stakeholder decision-making with clear architectural recommendations and risk assessments