Overview
We are seeking an experienced Application Decommissioning Consultant to join a hybrid team, focusing on leading the discovery phase of an application decommissioning programme. In this role, the consultant will collaborate with various technical workstreams and engage with subject matter experts to map dependencies and develop strategic plans for application retirement. This position requires a strong background in IT consulting and application management, with an emphasis on stakeholder engagement and project governance.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end discovery across all technical workstreams.
- Define information requirements and assessment templates for each workstream.
- Build and maintain an integrated Dependency Register, reconciling findings from SME groups.
- Define recommended decommissioning approaches including prerequisites, sequencing, and execution activities.
- Create a decommissioning runbook template covering workstreams, governance approvals, and backup.
- Develop a high-level roadmap and execution strategy.
- Review and update governance models, RACI, approval gates, success criteria, and entry checklists.
- Produce consolidated Assessment Reports and discovery deliverables identifying benefit trigger points and the realization of benefits.
Requirements
- Over 15 years in application/technology consulting, application rationalisation, transformation, or IT service management.
- Proven delivery on application decommissioning, retirement, rationalisation, or modernisation programmes.
- Hands-on experience with application dependency mapping and impact assessment in complex enterprise environments.
- Strong technical knowledge in Java/web applications, APIs and integrations, databases, batch processing, cloud infrastructure, network dependencies, IAM/Active Directory, certificates, and monitoring/operational tooling.
- Confidence in challenging technical findings and identifying gaps.
- Skilled in facilitating workshops with multiple SMEs and strong stakeholder management.
- Desirable skills include application portfolio rationalisation and large-scale legacy retirement programmes, data retention and archival, cloud migration/modernisation on AWS or Azure, and knowledge of ITIL/service management.