Remote Lead Application Modernization Architect

Ensono; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 125,000 - 168,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited Paid Days Off

Health plan options

401k with company match

Dental, vision, disability, life and A

Fertility coverage and adoption/surrog

Job summary

Ensono is seeking a Lead Application Modernization Consultant to lead an agile delivery team, own technical outcomes, and stay hands-on across architecture, design, and development to achieve measurable business outcomes for clients.

You will coach engineers, promote AI-assisted development, advance modernization standards, and contribute to discovery, assessments, and pre-sales activities, while maintaining a collaborative, high-quality developer experience.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive software engineering or equivalent experience, with 3+ years in application modernization, cloud architecture, or technical delivery leadership.
• Experience modernizing large-scale, high-availability apps with cloud-native and microservices architectures.
• Hands-on in at least one mainstream language (Java, .NET, Python) and ability to analyze legacy codebases.
• Experience building inventories of legacy estates and recommending modernization strategies (rehost, refactor, re-platform, retire, retain, replace).
• Experience leading solution design, translating requirements into architectures, ADRs, acceptance criteria, and delivery plans.
• Strong design for distributed systems on Azure/AWS/GCP with non-functional quality, scalability, and performance considerations.
• Experience establishing engineering standards, automation, testing, documentation, and reusable patterns.
• Experience identifying and managing risks across the SDLC and guiding teams toward mitigations.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools to support code analysis, development, testing, documentation, or modernization with oversight.
• Experience providing technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring while ensuring accountability for quality and delivery.
• Strong client-facing communication skills to explain architectural decisions and align teams to outcomes.
• Ownership of technical outcomes, with clear documentation and reusable engineering assets.

Responsibilities

• Lead an agile delivery team or significant workstream, owning technical outcomes and the developer experience while delivering measurable business outcomes for clients.
• Own technical and delivery risk, proactively identifying and mitigating risks related to legacy dependencies, migrations, new technologies, and AI approaches.
• Remain hands-on in architecture, design, and development while overseeing multiple work packages and ensuring alignment with architectures and standards.
• Drive modernization efforts by assessing legacy codebases, building inventories, and recommending dispositions (rehost, refactor, re-platform, retire, retain, replace).
• Develop assessments and target-state designs for a clear path from legacy to modernized solutions.
• Lead discovery and planning with clients to define problem statements, outcomes, success criteria, constraints, and priorities.
• Champion spec-driven development with ADRs, requirements, non-functional expectations, and acceptance criteria.
• Promote a modern developer experience including AI-assisted tools to accelerate legacy analysis and productivity.
• Maintain engineering judgment and ensure transparent, well-documented architectural and delivery decisions.
• Provide technical leadership within Connected Services, setting expectations for quality, delivery, and developer experience.

Skills

Java

.NET

Python

Cloud architecture

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Ensono is seeking a Lead Application Modernization Consultant to lead an agile delivery team, own technical outcomes, and stay hands-on across architecture, design, and development to achieve measurable business outcomes for clients.

You will coach engineers, promote AI-assisted development, advance modernization standards, and contribute to discovery, assessments, and pre-sales activities, while maintaining a collaborative, high-quality developer experience.