Remote Lead Application Modernization Architect

Ensono; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 125,000 - 168,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited Paid Days Off

Health plan options

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 in modernizing complex, high-availability applications. You will stay hands-on across architecture, design, and development while shaping reusable modernization patterns and AI-assisted approaches to improve outcomes for clients.

You will coach engineers, advance standards, and support discovery, assessments, and pre-sales activities.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive software engineering or related experience, including 3+ years in modernization or delivery leadership.
• Experience leading modernization of large-scale, high-availability apps, with cloud-native/microservices patterns.
• Hands-on proficiency in at least one mainstream language (Java, .NET, Python).
• Experience assessing legacy estates and recommending modernization strategies.
• Experience designing distributed systems on cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Experience establishing engineering standards, automation, testing, and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead an agile delivery team or major workstream, delivering measurable business outcomes.
• Own technical and delivery risk, mitigating legacy, migrations, new tech, and AI approaches.
• Remain hands-on in architecture, design, and development across multiple work packages.
• Drive modernization by assessing legacy codebases and recommending dispositions (rehost, refactor, re-platform, retire, retain, replace).
• Develop assessments and target-state designs guiding legacy-to-modern transitions.
• Lead discovery and planning with clients, defining problems, outcomes, success criteria, and priorities.
• Document requirements, architectural intent, non-functional expectations, ADRs, and acceptance criteria.
• Promote modern developer experience and responsible AI-assisted tool use.
• Maintain engineering judgment and transparency in decisions; document outcomes.

Skills

Agile leadership

Cloud architecture

Java

.NET

Python

Architectural design

AI tools

Client communication

Mentoring

Job description

Ensono is seeking a Lead Application Modernization Consultant to guide agile delivery teams in modernizing complex, high-availability applications. You will stay hands-on across architecture, design, and development while shaping reusable modernization patterns and AI-assisted approaches to improve outcomes for clients.

You will coach engineers, advance standards, and support discovery, assessments, and pre-sales activities.