Application Decommissioning Consultant

Location: Glasgow (UK)

Role Overview

The primary ask is the proven experience in application decommissioning, retirement, rationalisation, or technology modernisation programmes. The Decommissioning Consultant will lead and coordinate application decommissioning discovery activities, acting as the end-to-end discovery orchestrator across Application, Infrastructure, Network, Database, Security, Integration, and Operations workstreams.

Key Responsibilities

• Define information requirements and assessment templates for each workstream.
• Develop and maintain an integrated Dependency Register.
• Define Runbook template for decommissioning which covers all the areas across Application, Infrastructure, Network, Database, Security, Integration, and Operations workstreams as well as governance approval and backup.
• Challenge and reconcile conflicting information received from different SME groups.
• Define the recommended decommissioning approach for each application.
• Identify prerequisites, sequencing considerations, and key activities required for execution.
• Develop a high-level decommissioning roadmap and execution strategy.
• Review and update Decommissioning strategy including governance model, RACI, approval gates, success criteria, etc.
• Produce the consolidated Assessment Report and supporting Discovery deliverables.
• Support development of the Decommissioning Entry Criteria Checklist.