Applications Architect

We are looking for an Applications Architect to join a Contract engagement based. In this role, you will help establish a new Aspera environment and guide the movement of critical file transfer capabilities into a newly separated technology landscape. This position is ideal for a hands-on architect who can balance technical design, migration planning, and cross-functional coordination while ensuring reliable data transfer operations.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and implement a new Aspera platform that aligns with the client’s target application and infrastructure environment.

• Review current file transfer processes, access controls, endpoint connectivity, storage relationships, and configuration artifacts to determine what must be rebuilt or transitioned.

• Design the future-state Aspera setup, including workflow structure, permission models, system dependencies, and integration points with connected platforms.

• Create and execute plans to migrate or reconstruct legacy transfer configurations, representative data movement activities, and supporting technical documentation.

• Partner with product stakeholders, project coordination teams, infrastructure resources, and platform engineers to track dependencies, resolve issues, and maintain delivery readiness.

• Produce detailed implementation materials such as migration procedures, operational runbooks, validation steps, cutover plans, and support handoff documents.

• Oversee testing and readiness activities to verify connectivity, access, transfer performance, and overall platform functionality before go-live.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience working with Aspera in enterprise file transfer, customer data exchange, or application migration settings.
• Hands-on background building, configuring, or transitioning Aspera environments, workflows, permissions, and related platform components.
• Solid understanding of application migration principles, infrastructure dependencies, data transfer architecture, and cutover support activities.
• Ability to convert legacy-state requirements into practical target-state designs and executable implementation plans.
• Experience preparing technical documentation such as design specifications, migration plans, runbooks, operating procedures, and validation checklists.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across product, infrastructure, and migration leadership teams.
• Capability to identify risks, blockers, dependencies, and key decision points that may affect delivery timelines.
• Familiarity with technologies such as ASP.NET, .NET, application architecture, API development, and AWS is strongly preferred.

Compensation

$70.00-$80.00 Hourly

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