Lead Application Modernization Consultant

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $125k - $168k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Ensono

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1001 - 5000 employees

💼 Consulting

Consulting • Cloud Services • IT Services

Ensono is a managed service provider and expert technology advisor focused on enabling clients to navigate complex IT environments. Ensono offers services including mainframe-as-a-service, cloud migration, and IT infrastructure management, with a strong emphasis on modernizing legacy systems and optimizing IT operations. The company is recognized for its flexibility and allyship, providing businesses with the ability to adapt and evolve through solutions like Ensono Flex®. It specializes in both mainframe and cloud solutions, holding competency in AWS mainframe modernization and is a global Azure Expert MSP. Ensono acts as an ally, helping companies achieve better business outcomes through IT innovation and strategic technology advisement.

📋 Description

• Lead an agile delivery team or significant workstream within a larger program, owning technical outcomes and the developer experience while ensuring solutions deliver measurable business outcomes for clients • Own technical and delivery risk within scope, proactively identifying, tracking, and mitigating risks related to legacy dependencies, migration patterns, new technologies, and AI-assisted approaches • Remain hands-on in architecture, design, and development while overseeing multiple work packages and ensuring alignment with agreed architectures, engineering standards, and Ensono best practices • Drive application modernization by assessing legacy codebases, building application and capability inventories, and recommending dispositions including rehost, refactor, re-platform, retire, retain, or replace • Develop assessments and target-state designs that provide clients with a clear path from legacy environments to modernized solutions • Lead client discovery and planning activities to define problem statements, business outcomes, success criteria, technical constraints, and delivery priorities • Champion spec-driven development by documenting requirements, architectural intent, non-functional expectations, architecture decision records, and acceptance criteria • Promote a modern developer experience through effective and responsible use of AI-assisted tools • Maintain strong engineering judgment and accountability while ensuring architectural and delivery decisions are transparent and documented • Provide technical leadership within the Connected Services competency, setting expectations for engineering quality, delivery, and developer experience • Strengthen Connected Services standards, documentation, and reusable modernization patterns • Support discovery, assessments, and pre-sales activities as needed • Coach and mentor engineers in modern development practices, including responsible use of AI assistants and agents • Foster a collaborative, psychologically safe environment prioritizing intent, quality, accountability, and learning

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive software engineering, application development, or related experience, including 3+ years in application modernization, cloud architecture, or technical delivery leadership • Demonstrated experience leading modernization of large-scale, complex, high-availability applications, including cloud-native and microservices architectures • Hands-on proficiency in at least one mainstream programming language, such as Java, .NET, or Python, with the ability to analyze and reason through legacy codebases • Experience assessing legacy application estates, developing application inventories, and recommending modernization strategies such as rehost, refactor, re-platform, retire, retain, or replace • Experience leading solution design and translating business requirements into technical architectures, specifications, ADRs, acceptance criteria, and executable delivery plans • Strong experience designing distributed systems on Azure, AWS, or GCP, including architectural trade-offs, scalability, availability, performance, and other non-functional requirements • Experience establishing engineering standards and quality practices, including automation, testing, documentation, quality gates, and reusable development patterns • Demonstrated experience identifying and managing technical, architectural, and delivery risks across the software development lifecycle • Experience using AI-assisted development tools to support code analysis, development, testing, documentation, or modernization while maintaining engineering oversight and accountability • Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership, coaching, and mentorship to engineers while maintaining accountability for quality and delivery • Strong client-facing communication skills with the ability to provide clear technical direction, explain architectural decisions, and align teams around desired outcomes • Proven ownership of technical outcomes, including clear documentation, continuous improvement, and development of reusable engineering assets

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited Paid Days Off • Three health plan options • 401k with company match • Eligibility for dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life and AD&D coverage, and flexible spending accounts • Family Forming Benefit including fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy reimbursement • Paid childbearing and paternal leave • Education Reimbursement, Student Loan Assistance or 529 College Funding • Sabbatical leave • Wellness program • Flexible work schedule • Annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, depending on eligibility • Equity grant under the Associate Equity Appreciation Program, depending on eligibility • Option to work from home or in Ensono offices when not required on a client site

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