Principal Consultant – Enterprise Application Portfolio Assessment Lead (m/f/d)

We are looking for an experienced Principal Consultant to lead enterprise application portfolio assessments for a large industrial customer in Germany.

The role focuses on evaluating the existing application landscape, identifying business and technical challenges, assessing opportunities for rationalization and modernization, and developing recommendations for future transformation initiatives.

This is an assessment and consulting engagement rather than a software development or implementation role.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead application portfolio assessment and discovery activities across enterprise application domains.
• Analyze existing applications, integrations, dependencies, architecture and business criticality.
• Conduct workshops and interviews with application owners, technical teams, engineers and business stakeholders.
• Identify application landscape challenges, technical risks, redundancies and improvement opportunities.
• Evaluate potential application consolidation, rationalization, modernization and transformation approaches.
• Develop high-level solution recommendations, resource estimates and cost assessments.
• Prepare application assessment reports, target-state recommendations and transformation roadmaps.
• Present findings and recommendations to customer stakeholders.
• Contribute to the technical and commercial inputs required for subsequent project planning.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive experience in enterprise application consulting, application portfolio management or enterprise architecture.
• Proven involvement in application landscape assessments, portfolio rationalization or enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of application architectures, integrations, dependencies and technology lifecycles.
• Experience conducting technical discovery workshops and engaging with business and IT stakeholders.
• Ability to translate assessment findings into structured recommendations, effort estimates and transformation plans.
• Strong analytical, documentation and presentation skills.
• Fluent German, both written and spoken, at C1/C2 professional level.
• Willingness to work full-time on-site in Ludwigshafen throughout the assignment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in industrial, engineering, manufacturing or chemical-sector environments.
• Knowledge of engineering applications, PLM systems or complex enterprise application landscapes.
• Experience with Application Management Services (AMS) strategy or operating model assessment.
• Familiarity with TOGAF or enterprise architecture frameworks.
• Experience with complex application modernization or IT transformation programs.

HCLTech is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of gender, age, disability, ethnic or social origin, nationality, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

All hiring decisions are based on qualifications, professional experience, skills, and business requirements.