Application Modernization Engineering Manager

EY; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Pension/401(k)

Paid time off

Job summary

EY is seeking an Application Modernization Engineer Manager to lead modernization efforts for government and infrastructure clients in a fast-paced, federal-focused setting. You will validate automated assessments, guide architectural decisions, and supervise engineers across modernization waves, cloud, and DevSecOps disciplines.

The role requires 6–10+ years of software engineering leadership, deep AWS/Azure and container experience, and the ability to navigate federal security requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, computer engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• U.S. citizenship and clearance-eligible: must be able to obtain and maintain a federal security clearance.
• 6–10+ years of software engineering experience, including leading application portfolio assessments, rationalization or modernization programs and leading engineering teams in federal or large enterprise environments.
• Professional software engineering experience in C#/.NET and/or Java, including maintaining, enhancing or modernizing existing applications.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with Oracle, SQL Server or PostgreSQL.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly read, understand and assess unfamiliar or poorly documented codebases.
• Solid understanding of web application architecture, APIs, authentication and deployment.
• Git-based development and version control.
• Must be comfortable working in-person as needed in the Washington, DC area

Responsibilities

• Perform targeted technical validation of automated assessment results for assigned applications: confirm component inventories, technology versions, dependencies, interfaces and data flows, and resolve gaps, ambiguities and false positives.
• Evaluate code quality, maintainability, test coverage, framework and library currency, end-of-support exposure and technical debt using tooling (e.g., SonarQube) and expert review.
• Assess database design and usage across Oracle, SQL Server and PostgreSQL, including tightly coupled and shared databases, cross-application data access and replication.
• Assess architecture and cloud readiness, including statefulness, configuration management, session handling, authentication patterns and hosting dependencies.
• Identify functional overlap and redundant business capabilities across applications to support consolidation analysis.
• Score applications against defined rationalization criteria and recommend a disposition and a modernization pathway.
• Develop target-state direction, effort and complexity estimates, dependencies and sequencing constraints for the modernization roadmap.
• Document findings and supporting evidence in a traceable form suitable for client review and acceptance.
• Lead the modernization engineering team, coordinating application modernization, cloud, DevSecOps and integration engineers.

Skills

AWS/Azure hands-on

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

PowerShell/Bash/Python scripting

Git version control

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/CE or related field

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Azure/AWS GovCloud

Job description

EY is seeking an Application Modernization Engineer Manager to lead modernization efforts for government and infrastructure clients in a fast-paced, federal-focused setting. You will validate automated assessments, guide architectural decisions, and supervise engineers across modernization waves, cloud, and DevSecOps disciplines.

The role requires 6–10+ years of software engineering leadership, deep AWS/Azure and container experience, and the ability to navigate federal security requirements