Application Architect (Cloud Migration to Google Cloud Platform)

Quick Facts

• Role: Application Architect (Cloud Migration to Google Cloud Platform)

• Scope: Own target-state application architecture for migrating enterprise apps from AWS and Azure to Google Cloud Platform

• Level: Principal / Lead Architect

Description

The Application Architect owns the target-state application architecture for migrating enterprise applications from AWS and Azure to Google Cloud Platform. For each application, you decide whether to rehost, replatform, refactor, or re-engineer, then lead teams through zero-downtime cutovers. This is a hands-on leadership role coordinating business and technology stakeholders, infrastructure architecture, the PMO, and onshore/offshore engineering teams to build a modern, scalable application estate on GCP.

Responsibilities

• Define the target-state application architecture on GCP

• Choose the migration approach (rehost/replatform/refactor/re-engineer) application-by-application

• Lead zero-downtime production cutovers

• Collaborate with infrastructure architect, security, DevOps, PMO, and engineering delivery teams (onshore/offshore)

• Design scalable, highly available microservices and event-driven/API architectures on GCP

Requirements

• 12–15+ years in software engineering and application/solution architecture in high-scale distributed environments

• Direct experience migrating applications from AWS and/or Azure to Google Cloud Platform, including at least one zero-downtime production cutover

• Ability to reverse-engineer legacy applications and redesign them for scalable, highly available GCP architectures

• Deep expertise in microservices, microfrontends, APIs, event-driven design, and sidecar/service-mesh patterns

• Strong working knowledge of GKE, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, Memorystore, Apigee, and Secret Manager (and AWS/Azure equivalents)

• Extensive Kafka streaming and Redis/Valkey caching design experience

• Data migration across relational and NoSQL stores with zero data loss

• Practical use of TOGAF or Domain-Driven Design; record of leading ADR and DAR forums

• Code-level credibility in Java/Spring Boot, Python, React.js, and Kotlin

• Experience leading distributed onshore/offshore teams and working with a PMO

Benefits

Not specified in the posting.