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App rationalization Architect - Principal Engg

About Providence

Providence, one of the US’s largest not-for-profit healthcare systems, is committed to high quality, compassionate healthcare for all. Driven by the belief that health is a human right and the vision, ‘Health for a better world’, Providence and its 121,000 caregivers strive to provide everyone access to affordable quality care and services.

Providence has a network of 51 hospitals, 1,000+ care clinics, senior services, supportive housing, and other health and educational services in the US.

Providence India is bringing to fruition the transformational shift of the healthcare ecosystem to Health 2.0. The India center will have focused efforts around healthcare technology and innovation, and play a vital role in driving digital transformation of health systems for improved patient outcomes and experiences, caregiver efficiency, and running the business of Providence at scale.


Why Us?

  • Best In-class Benefits
  • Inclusive Leadership
  • Reimagining Healthcare
  • Competitive Pay
  • Supportive Reporting Relation

Profile Background

We are looking for an experienced Application Rationalization Architect to lead initiatives that optimize our application portfolio strategy. This role demands a strategic thinker who can assess the current landscape, lead the modernization of applications, and drive the adoption of scalable and secure cloud-native solutions. You will work closely with business and technology leaders to rationalize applications duly aligned with business goals.

What will you be responsible for?

  • Overseeing the rationalization of the application portfolio, driving modernization, and ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
  • Application Rationalization: Lead efforts to assess, streamline, and modernize the existing application portfolio. Identify redundancies, consolidate applications, and propose cloud-native or serverless alternatives where applicable.
  • Service Now: Understanding of service now and other organization application and meta data discovery and data mining techniques in discovery effort.
  • Collaboration: Work cross-functionally with development, product, infrastructure, and security teams to drive efficiencies and ensure alignment with business goals.
  • Architect Scalable Infrastructure: Design and implement cloud-native and hybrid infrastructures leveraging containers, microservices, and serverless technologies.
  • Technical Leadership: Act as a technical advisor and mentor to teams, providing thought leadership on DevOps, automation, and application modernization.
  • Cloud Transformation: Drive cloud adoption and migration strategies, focusing on performance, cost optimization, and compliance.
  • Develop comprehensive rationalization roadmaps that include recommendations for cloud migration, SaaS adoption, or legacy system upgrades.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to inform rationalization strategies and ensure alignment with IT strategic objectives.

Who are we looking for?

  • 10+ years of experience in IT with relevant experience of more 4+ into application rationalization space.
  • Strong background in application rationalization, modernization, and cloud migration (Azure preferably) strategies.
  • Strong skills in creating and maintaining technical documentation, including process maps and system architecture diagrams.
  • Proficiency in tools like ServiceNow or similar for application management.
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, capable of influencing stakeholders at all levels.
  • Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles and design patterns.
  • Strong problem solving and analytical skills having ability to critically analyze application functionality and identify improvement opportunities.
  • Expertise into building and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible.
  • Expertise at least into one of prevailing programming language such as C#.Net / Java / Python.

Nice to have:

  • DevOps Practices: Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools.
  • Programming Skills: Familiarity with programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, Java, SQL) for data manipulation and automation tasks.
  • Collaboration Tools: Experience with collaboration platforms (e.g., Jira, Confluence) for project tracking and documentation.

Providence’s vision to create ‘Health for a Better World’ aids us to provide a fair and equitable workplace for all in our employment, whether temporary, part-time or full time, and to promote individuality and diversity of thought and background, and acknowledge its role in the organization’s success. This makes us committed towards equal employment opportunities, regardless of race, religion or belief, color, ancestry, disability, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, ethnic origin, pregnancy, or related needs, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, or any other category protected by applicable law. In furtherance to our mission in building a more inclusive and equitable environment, we shall, from time to time, undertake programs to assist, uplift and empower underrepresented groups including but not limited to Women, PWD (Persons with Disabilities), LGTBQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Bisexual or Queer), Veterans and others. We strive to address all forms of discrimination or harassment and provide a safe and confidential process to report any misconduct.

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