Senior Application Modernization Lead - Remote

Ensono; Olympia (WA); Remote; USD 125,000 - 168,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited Paid Days Off

Three health plan options

401k with company match

Eligibility for dental, vision, short-

long-term disability, life and AD&D

Flexible spending accounts

Family Forming Benefit including Fertl

Paid childbearing and paternal leave

Education Reimbursement, Student Loan

Sabbatical leave

Wellness program

Flexible work schedule

Job summary

Ensono seeks a Lead Application Modernization Consultant to steer an agile delivery team, own technical outcomes, and mentor engineers in architecture, design, and development. You will strengthen modernization standards, drive discovery, assessments, and pre-sales activities, and promote AI-assisted development while delivering measurable business outcomes for clients.

This role offers remote work across the United States, a collaborative culture built on honesty and accountability, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive software engineering, application development, or related experience, including 3+ years in application modernization, cloud architecture, or technical delivery leadership.
• Demonstrated experience leading modernization of large-scale, complex, high-availability applications, including cloud-native and microservices architectures.
• Hands-on proficiency in at least one mainstream programming language, such as Java, .NET, or Python, with the ability to analyze and reason through legacy codebases.
• Experience assessing legacy application estates, developing application inventories, and recommending modernization strategies such as rehost, refactor, re-platform, retire, retain, or replace.
• Experience leading solution design and translating business requirements into technical architectures, specifications, ADRs, acceptance criteria, and executable delivery plans.
• Strong experience designing distributed systems on Azure, AWS, or GCP, including architectural trade-offs, scalability, availability, performance, and other non-functional requirements.
• Experience establishing engineering standards and quality practices, including automation, testing, documentation, quality gates, and reusable development patterns.
• Demonstrated experience identifying and managing technical, architectural, and delivery risks across the software development lifecycle.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools to support code analysis, development, testing, documentation, or modernization while maintaining engineering oversight and accountability.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership, coaching, and mentorship to engineers while maintaining accountability for quality and delivery.
• Strong client-facing communication skills with the ability to provide clear technical direction, explain architectural decisions, and align teams around desired outcomes.
• Proven ownership of technical outcomes, including clear documentation, continuous improvement, and development of reusable engineering assets.

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.

Skills

Java

.NET

Python

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Ensono seeks a Lead Application Modernization Consultant to steer an agile delivery team, own technical outcomes, and mentor engineers in architecture, design, and development. You will strengthen modernization standards, drive discovery, assessments, and pre-sales activities, and promote AI-assisted development while delivering measurable business outcomes for clients.

This role offers remote work across the United States, a collaborative culture built on honesty and accountability, and