Digerati Systems Inc

Compensation

Full Description

Location: Hybrid (must go to Austin office as requested - mostly remote) (Resume and Photo ID required:For the safety and security of our clients and their systems, any candidate resume submitted must also include a photo ID of the candidate. Any candidate resume submitted without a photo ID will be eliminated from potential selection for the role.) Please place this at the beginning of the resume when submitting the resume. REQUIREMENTS: Project Overview: This Application Lead role supports a strategic initiative to assess and implement the transition of decentralized or shadow IT resources into a centralized IT division in preparation for modernization initiatives. The project initially focuses on enhancing IT governance, optimizing service delivery, and improving enterprise-wide visibility, security, and reporting. This initial transformation will involve aligning resources, recommending application remediation/consolidation, developing standards and modernizing new applications and systems. Modernization and application remediation responsibilities will follow this initial phase. Position Summary: We are seeking a Senior Application Technical Lead to play a critical role in consolidating and transitioning application support services across multiple departments into a centralized IT organization. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and business units to evaluate existing application support structures, recommend integration strategies, and guide the alignment of support services under the new centralized model. Key Responsibilities: • Review and assess current applications and resource designations distributed across various business units. • Identify and recommend application consolidation opportunities to eliminate redundancies. • Lead the technical integration of application services into the centralized IT structure. • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand application dependencies, support needs, and service-level requirements. • Support the transition planning, role realignment, and onboarding of staff affected by application support changes. • Contribute to the development of standardized processes and procedures for application development and maintenance. • Provide application technical leadership in defining scalable and sustainable application support practices. • Help inventory and assess current and planned IT applications/systems and projects for consolidation. Required Qualifications: • Minimum of 8 years of experience in enterprise application architecture or application development leadership roles. • Proven experience leading application integration or centralization efforts across complex organizational structures. • Deep understanding of application lifecycle management and IT service delivery. • Experience working in or with public-sector organizations, with an understanding of government IT structures and governance models. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; able to assess current-state applications and recommend effective enhancement/transition strategies. • Effective communicator with experience collaborating across diverse stakeholder groups. • Experience with application evaluations in large-scale IT transformation initiatives is highly desirable. Preferred Qualifications: • Experience as application lead in multi-department or enterprise-wide IT modernization and consolidation projects. • Understanding of cybersecurity, access control, and enterprise application security in the public sector.