Remote Application Modernization Lead

Ensono

Columbus (OH)

Remote

USD 125,000 - 168,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited Paid Days Off

401k with company match

Education Reimbursement

Sabbatical leave

Wellness program

Flexible work schedule

Job summary

Ensono is seeking a Lead Application Modernization Consultant to guide agile delivery teams across modernization initiatives. You will own technical outcomes, mentor engineers, and ensure architectural quality to deliver measurable business results for clients.

You will drive modernization with cloud-native and microservices patterns, leveraging hands-on design and architecture across Azure/AWS/GCP platforms, while promoting a modern developer experience and responsible AI-assisted tooling

Qualifications

7+ years of progressive software engineering, application development, or related experience, including 3+ years in application modernization, cloud architecture, or technical delivery leadership.

Responsibilities

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 your 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 solutions align with agreed architectures, engineering standards, and Ensono best practices.
Drive application modernization efforts by assessing legacy codebases, building application and capability inventories, and recommending appropriate dispositions, including rehost, refactor, re-platform, retire, retain, or replace.
Develop assessments and target-state designs that provide clients with a clear, credible path from legacy environments to modernized solutions.
Lead discovery and planning activities with clients to define problem statements, desired business outcomes, success criteria, technical constraints, and delivery priorities.
Champion spec-driven development by clearly documenting requirements, architectural intent, non-functional expectations, architecture decision records (ADRs), and acceptance criteria.
Promote a modern developer experience, including the effective and responsible use of AI-assisted tools to accelerate legacy analysis and improve productivity, quality, and feedback cycles.
Maintain strong engineering judgment and accountability while ensuring key architectural and delivery decisions are transparent and well documented.
Provide technical leadership within the Connected Services competency, setting clear expectations for engineering quality, delivery, and developer experience.