Remote Lead: Application Modernization Architect

Ensono; Oregon; Hybrid; 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 + AD&

Education Reimbursement

Job summary

Ensono is seeking a Lead Application Modernization Consultant to steer agile delivery and drive modernization across large-scale, cloud-native applications. The role emphasizes architectural leadership, hands-on design, and mentoring engineers, while advancing AI-assisted development practices.

You will guide clients through legacy-to-modern transitions, manage delivery risks, and ensure alignment with architectures and engineering standards in a collaborative, client-facing environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive software engineering or related experience with modernization
• Experience leading modernization of large-scale, cloud-native apps
• Hands-on in at least one mainstream language (Java/.NET/Python)
• Experience assessing legacy estates and modernization strategies
• Experience leading solution design with ADRs and acceptance criteria
• Experience designing distributed systems on Azure, AWS, or GCP

Responsibilities

• Lead an agile delivery team or major workstream, owning outcomes
• Own technical and delivery risk, mitigate legacy dependencies and AI-assisted approaches
• Remain hands-on in architecture, design, and development across multiple work packages
• Drive modernization by assessing legacy codebases and recommending rehost/refactor/retarget
• Develop target-state designs guiding legacy-to-modern solutions
• Lead discovery and planning to define problem statements and success criteria

Skills

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Java/.NET/Python

AI-assisted tools

Client-facing

Risk management

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Ensono is seeking a Lead Application Modernization Consultant to steer agile delivery and drive modernization across large-scale, cloud-native applications. The role emphasizes architectural leadership, hands-on design, and mentoring engineers, while advancing AI-assisted development practices.

You will guide clients through legacy-to-modern transitions, manage delivery risks, and ensure alignment with architectures and engineering standards in a collaborative, client-facing environment.