Application Transformation Advisor

Location: London, United Kingdom. The role requires eligibility for UK Government and contractual personnel security requirements, applicable residency requirements, and the right to work in the United Kingdom. Some engagements may also require specific nationality criteria.

Company

hirify.global delivers technology transformation and application services for enterprise clients.

What you will do

• Lead executive-level advisory conversations with CIOs, CTOs, enterprise architects, and business stakeholders.
• Shape and sell application transformation opportunities, business cases, roadmaps, and operating models.
• Assess complex application portfolios and technology estates, defining modernization, migration, rationalization, and decommissioning strategies.
• Oversee cloud migration, application refactoring, containerization, legacy modernization, and transition to business-as-usual operations.
• Assess and remediate technical debt across applications, infrastructure, integrations, and operational services.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams while managing governance, risks, dependencies, quality, reporting, and stakeholder communication.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience delivering large-scale technology transformation programs.
• Proven experience leading enterprise application migration and modernization engagements.
• Hands-on experience with application assessment, migration planning, portfolio rationalization, and cloud transformation.
• Strong understanding of technical debt identification, quantification, remediation, program governance, and risk management.
• Experience across legacy, cloud-native, hybrid, and distributed application environments, plus business change associated with technology transformation.
• Must meet applicable UK Government and contractual security and residency requirements and have the right to work in the United Kingdom.

Nice to have

• Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP cloud migration.
• Background in enterprise architecture, mainframe modernization, API and integration architecture, microservices, and cloud-native design.
• Experience with DevSecOps, application portfolio management, IT service management, technology strategy, or data migration and integration.

Culture & Benefits

• Work model prioritizes in-person collaboration while offering flexibility for wellbeing, productivity, individual work styles, and life circumstances.
• Inclusive environment focused on helping people thrive.
• Emphasis on strong connections and community.