Cloud App Modernization Practice Lead

Cloud App Modernization Practice Lead

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Role Summary

Cloud App Modernization Practice Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute the strategic roadmap

  for the App Modernization practice, ensuring alignment with business goals, market trends, and client needs.

• Drive business growth

  by shaping solutions, supporting strategic deals, and providing subject matter expertise in client engagements.

• Oversee delivery excellence

  for large-scale modernization projects, ensuring best-in-class standards, quality, and client satisfaction.

• Develop and maintain a portfolio of reusable assets, accelerators, and methodologies

  that differentiate the practice in the market.

• Own the app modernization strategy

  and reference implementation roadmap, including frameworks for 12-factor app assessment, monolith decomposition, and cloud-native enablement.

• Define and maintain modernization assessment templates

  (e.g., 12-factor, cloud readiness, technical debt analysis), automation tools, and best-practice runbooks.

• Establish standards and review processes

  for modernization patterns: re-platforming, re-architecting, refactoring, containerization, and serverless adoption.

• Develop and curate blueprints and accelerators

  for:
• Monolith-to-microservices decomposition (e.g., Strangler Fig, domain-driven design)
• Code conversion and refactoring (e.g., .NET to .NET Core, Java upgrades, API modernization)
• Cloud-native frameworks (Spring Boot, Node.js, .NET Core, etc.)
• Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
• Service mesh and event-driven architectures

• Lead the creation of automated code analysis and assessment tools

  (e.g., CAST, SonarQube) to identify modernization opportunities and technical debt.

• Deliver technical briefings and workshops

  to customer executives, articulating modernization value, technical roadmaps, and transformation outcomes.

• Design and oversee multi-phase modernization workflows

  : discovery, assessment, planning, code conversion, refactoring, containerization, validation, and cutover.

• Guide teams in automated code conversion and remediation

  , leveraging tools and accelerators for language/platform upgrades.

• Define and enforce cloud-native design principles

  : statelessness, API-first, configuration management, CI/CD, observability, and resilience.

• Drive adoption of DevSecOps pipelines

  , shift-left testing, and continuous delivery for modernized workloads.

• Ensure observability by design

  : implement logging, distributed tracing, and monitoring for all modernized applications.

• Lead risk assessment and mitigation

  for modernization projects, including compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.

• Standardize validation schemas and rollback patterns

  for safe modernization, including blue/green and canary deployments.

• Own the quality assurance framework

  :
• Automated unit, integration, and regression testing for modernized code
• Performance, reliability, and security metrics for cloud-native workloads

• Set governance policies for change management, approvals, and incident response

  in modernization programs.

• Collaborate with Cloud Migration, Data Modernization, and Security teams

  for integrated, end-to-end transformation solutions.

Technical Skills Required

• Software Development Expertise:

• 15+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering

  , with deep proficiency in modern programming languages such as

  Java, C#, Python, Go, or Node.js.

• Strong understanding of

  software architecture patterns,

  including

  domain-driven design, event-driven architectures, and API-first development

  .

• Cloud-Native & Modernization Technologies:

• Mastery of containerization technologies:

• Docker:

  Building, managing, and securing container images; optimizing Dockerfiles for production workloads.

• Kubernetes:

  Advanced deployment, scaling, rolling updates, Helm chart authoring, operator patterns, and troubleshooting in production clusters.

• OpenShift:

  Enterprise Kubernetes management, multi-tenancy, CI/CD integration, and security controls.
• Familiarity with other platforms:

  AWS ECS/EKS, Azure AKS, Google GKE, VMware Tanzu.

• Experience with

  service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd

  ) for traffic management, security, and observability in

  microservices environments

  .
• Deep knowledge of

  cloud-native frameworks: Spring Boot, .NET Core, Node.js, Quarkus, Micronaut, etc.

• Proficiency

  in serverless architectures (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions) and event-driven patterns

  .

• App Modernization & Assessment:

• Expertise in

  12-factor app assessment

  and remediation, including configuration management, stateless design, and environment parity.
• Experience in

  monolith-to-microservices decomposition

  , using patterns like Strangler Fig, domain-driven design, and event sourcing.
• Hands-on experience with automated code analysis and

  refactoring tools

  (e.g., CAST, SonarQube, Resharper).

• Code conversion and modernization

  : legacy to modern frameworks, language upgrades, and API modernization.

• DevSecOps & Automation:

• Building and managing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI).

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation, Pulumi).

• Automated testing (unit, integration, regression), shift-left security, and continuous delivery practices.

• Observability & Operations:

• Implementing logging, distributed tracing, and monitoring using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK stack, Jaeger, or OpenTelemetry.

• Performance tuning, troubleshooting, and optimizing cloud-native workloads.

• Security & Compliance:

• Deep understanding of cloud security best practices, IAM, encryption, and regulatory compliance (GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS).
• Experience with vulnerability scanning, container security, and policy enforcement in Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.

• Consulting & Leadership:

• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable strategies for clients and internal teams.
• Experience leading technical teams, mentoring engineers, and driving adoption of modern engineering practices.

Nice-to-Have

• Background in data modernization or cloud security.
• Certifications in major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience developing or contributing to open-source modernization tools or frameworks.