Application Landscape Project Manager

This project aims to execute the transition of an application landscape to a controlled and reliable status in multiple tranches.

• This includes ensuring application ownership, consistent registration and maintenance in the CMDB, application lifecycle management, establishing governance, training administrators, complying with legal and regulatory frameworks, and transitioning to a hybrid cloud strategy.
• An inventory of approximately 350 applications has been carried out, with relevant application attributes centrally registered.
• an 'application wash street' has been developed to assess whether applications comply with laws and regulations and to determine the best landing zone within the hybrid cloud strategy.
• The policy is SaaS, above PaaS, above IaaS. A part of the application landscape will remain on-premise, a part will become SaaS, and a part will migrate to Azure.
• Applications active on the VDI Horizon workplace need to be transferred to target architecture based on application access via AVD and Liquidware products.
• The transition consists of 5 tracks: Ensuring application lifecycle management (ALM), application administration, manageability and cost efficiency, compliance with Laws & Regulations (AVG/WPG/AI-Act, BIO2/Cbw & Archiefwet), and applications conforming to target architecture (hybrid Cloud).

What you will do.

• You are responsible for realizing a future-proof, manageable, and secure application landscape.
• You drive the achievement of project objectives, collaborate with various teams, and ensure sustainable embedding of results within the organization.
• You combine a coaching and guiding leadership style with a strong focus on results, quality, and collaboration.
• You maintain a helicopter view without losing connection to the execution, and actively contribute to the elaboration, realization, and delivery of project results where necessary.
• You take initiative, build support, and connect stakeholders within the organization.
• You translate strategic objectives into concrete plans and actionable steps.
• You prepare a Project Initiation Document (PID) for decision-making, outlining the scope of Transition Wave 2, organizational impact, project approach, governance, planning, dependencies, and team deployment.
• You report monthly on progress, risks, bottlenecks, milestones, and decision points.
• You prepare monthly steering group meetings, provide decision-making documentation, and record agreements, decisions, and actions.
• You ensure alignment and collaboration between business, Information Management, Architecture, I&A teams, suppliers, and other stakeholders.
• You are responsible for the realization of the results defined in the PID and contribute substantively and executively where necessary. This includes:
• Migration of backend applications to the defined target architecture and landing zones.
• Access to applications via the modern workplace.
• Execution of compliance, security, and privacy assessments on applications.
• Implementation and embedding of processes, working methods, management agreements, and governance.
• The assignment is successfully completed when the line organization has the necessary frameworks, guidelines, processes, governance, and knowledge to independently carry out subsequent transitions within the application landscape.
• Activities include:
• Analyzing, determining migration strategy (6R method), and prioritizing applications for transition waves.
• Executing the transition of the application landscape to the hybrid target architecture (SaaS or Public Cloud/Azure solutions).
• Phasing out the VDI Horizon platform by "off-loading" applications and application access to the modern workplace via target architecture solutions.
• Driving and contributing to the further realization of necessary components of the target architecture for application transition, including the Azure landing zone, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Assessing applications for compliance regarding cybersecurity (BIO2/Cbw), privacy (AVG/Wpg), AI-Act, and archive laws & regulations.
• Implementing and optimizing vendor and change management processes.
• Implementing application lifecycle processes, such as registering new applications and decommissioning "end of life" or no longer relevant applications.
• Phasing out approximately 80 applications.
• Coordinating the functional management training program.
• Identifying application rationalization opportunities and coordinating decision-making.
• Application license management.
• Shaping governance roles relevant to i-portfolio, development process, and the application landscape.
• Knowledge transfer of transition and other application lifecycle management and ITIL management processes to the line organization.