Lead Application Modernization Consultant

Ensono

8d•$125,000 - $168,000•Remote

About The Position

As a Lead Application Modernization Consultant at Ensono, you will lead an agile delivery team or a significant workstream within a larger program, owning technical outcomes, delivery quality, and the developer experience. You will remain hands-on across architecture, design, and development while ensuring solutions achieve measurable business outcomes for clients. You will strengthen the Connected Services competency by advancing standards, documentation, and reusable modernization patterns, and by supporting discovery, assessments, and pre-sales activities as needed. You will coach and mentor engineers in modern development practices, including responsible use of AI assistants and agents, while fostering a collaborative, psychologically safe environment that prioritizes intent, quality, accountability, and learning. The role is client-facing. Ensono encourages remote work most of the time when a client site is not required, with the option to work from home or from an Ensono office. The stated good-faith annual pay range is $125,000 to $168,000 based on a full-time schedule. Eligible additional compensation may include an annual performance-based bonus and an equity grant.

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, including 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.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting application modernization discovery, assessments, solutioning, or pre-sales activities.
Experience creating reusable engineering assets, standards, reference architectures, documentation, or modernization patterns across multiple engagements.
Experience supporting technical interviews, engineering assessments, or broader capability-building initiatives.
Experience working with AI-assisted development tools or agents in enterprise software engineering environments.
Relevant cloud or architecture certifications from Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.

Responsibilities

Lead an agile delivery team or significant workstream, owning technical outcomes and developer experience while ensuring solutions deliver measurable client business outcomes.
Own technical and delivery risks within scope, 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.
Assess legacy codebases, develop application and capability inventories, and recommend modernization dispositions such as rehost, refactor, re-platform, retire, retain, or replace.
Develop assessments and target-state designs that provide clients with a credible path from legacy environments to modernized solutions.
Lead client discovery and planning to define problem statements, desired business outcomes, success criteria, technical constraints, and delivery priorities.
Champion spec-driven development by documenting requirements, architectural intent, non-functional expectations, architecture decision records (ADRs), and acceptance criteria.
Promote a modern developer experience, including effective and responsible use of AI-assisted tools to accelerate legacy analysis and improve productivity, quality, and feedback cycles.
Maintain engineering judgment and accountability, making architectural and delivery decisions transparent and well documented.
Provide technical leadership within the Connected Services competency, setting expectations for engineering quality, delivery, and developer experience.
Coach and mentor engineers in modern development practices and foster a collaborative, psychologically safe environment.
Support discovery, assessments, and pre-sales activities as needed.

Benefits

Unlimited paid days off.
Three health plan options.
401(k) 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, subject to eligibility.
Equity grant under the Associate Equity Appreciation Program, subject to eligibility.