Identifying the key roles
Application modernization and cloud migration are very complex programs. They require concrete planning, so it is essential to identify the right roles. Here are the critical roles of a migration and modernization program:
- Chief Technical Officer (CTO):
- Responsible for making the final decisions on different design and architecture aspects and defining the KPIs
- Chief Financial Officer (CFO):
- Provides knowledge and help for the CTO to define the KPIs
- Data Architect (DA):
- Understands the data insights, data communication pattern, data residency, data security, and compliance, and helps other architects to make the right decisions
- Designs data operations
- Application Architect (AA):
- Designs applications’ architecture and decides the correct migration pattern for different applications
- Designs continuous integration, continuous deployment (CI/CD), and other operation pipelines for applications
- Designs an automation framework for data access...