About The Position
We are seeking a .NET Application Modernization Consultant – Senior / Pod Lead to serve as the technical authority for a large-scale .NET modernization initiative. This role combines hands-on engineering leadership with architectural decision-making and technical mentorship. The successful candidate will own the modernization strategy, establish technical standards, resolve the most complex migration challenges, and guide a team of modernization consultants through the conversion of a large enterprise application portfolio. This individual will be responsible for solving the problems that automated migration tooling cannot address.
Requirements
- Expert-level C# development experience using modern language features
- Extensive hands-on experience migrating applications from: .NET Framework, .NET Core, .NET 6 / 7 / 8
- Deep understanding of runtime and Base Class Library (BCL) differences between framework versions
- Experience converting: Legacy project formats to SDK-style projects, packages.config to PackageReference, Legacy solutions to multi-targeted architectures
- Strong understanding of: Target Framework Monikers (TFMs), .NET Standard, Shared library modernization
- Experience migrating: web.config, app.config, ConfigurationManager To: IConfiguration, appsettings.json, Options Pattern
- Extensive experience migrating: ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API To: ASP.NET Core, Kestrel, ASP.NET Core Middleware Pipeline
- Experience replacing legacy dependency injection frameworks such as: Unity, Autofac, Ninject, StructureMap With: Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection
- Strong understanding of: Global.asax to Program.cs migration, Startup modernization, HttpContext API changes
- Experience modernizing or replacing: BinaryFormatter, .NET Remoting, AppDomain-based implementations, System.Drawing.Common workloads on Linux, System.Runtime.Caching, Legacy WCF clients Including modern alternatives such as: ImageSharp, SkiaSharp, IMemoryCache, IDistributedCache, CoreWCF, gRPC, REST-based service architectures
- Experience redesigning TransactionScope and MSDTC-based systems
- Strong understanding of: Saga patterns, Outbox patterns, Idempotency, Eventual consistency
- Experience migrating or rewriting Web Forms applications using: Razor Pages, ASP.NET MVC, Blazor
- Experience assessing modernization strategies for WPF applications
- Ability to evaluate options including: Retention on Windows, Migration to web technologies, Avalonia, .NET MAUI
- Experience replacing unsupported or incompatible NuGet packages
- Ability to analyze and reverse-engineer private package dependencies when source code is unavailable
- Experience converting T4-based solutions to: Roslyn Source Generators, Mono.TextTemplating, Alternative modern code-generation approaches
- Hands-on experience with: .NET Upgrade Assistant, AWS Porting Assistant for .NET, try-convert, .NET API Portability Analyzer (apiport), Git, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Automated build, test, and deployment pipelines
- Additional experience with: Linux-targeted .NET workloads, Containerization concepts and deployment considerations
- Candidates must be U.S. Citizens or U.S. Permanent Residents (Green Card holders) and able to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship.
- Undergo fingerprinting as part of the onboarding process.
- Successfully complete a government background investigation (CJIS-type clearance).
Nice To Haves
- AWS Certifications
- Experience modernizing large monolithic enterprise applications
- Experience decomposing monolithic architectures into modern services
- Prior AWS Transformation Framework (ATF) or comparable modernization program experience
- Experience leading large-scale enterprise application modernization initiatives
Responsibilities
- Lead the .NET Framework to .NET 8+ modernization strategy across the workstream
- Establish technical standards, migration patterns, and quality expectations
- Make and document key architectural decisions regarding: Distributed transaction modernization (DTC replacement strategies), ASP.NET Web Forms migration approaches, WPF application disposition (retire, retain on Windows, or rewrite)
- Perform hands-on modernization of the most complex application components
- Lead remediation of incompatible NuGet dependencies and package modernization efforts
- Reverse-engineer and replace private packages where source code is unavailable
- Review and approve modernization work completed by staff consultants
- Ensure functional parity, maintainability, and performance of migrated applications
- Evaluate where modernization tooling can accelerate delivery versus where manual intervention is required
- Partner with delivery leadership to identify risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies
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