Lead Modernization Consultant

Lead Application Modernization Consultant Remote - United StatesJR
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At Ensono, our Purpose is to be a relentless ally, disrupting the status quo and unleashing our clients to Do Great Things ! We enable our clients to achieve key business outcomes that reshape how our world runs. As an expert technology adviser and managed service provider with cross-platform certifications, Ensono empowers our clients to keep up with continuous change and embrace innovation.

We can Do Great Things because we have great Associates. The Ensono Core Values unify our diverse talents and are woven into how we do business. These five traits are the key to achieving our purpose:
Honesty, Reliability, Curiosity, Collaboration, and Passion.

As a Lead Application Modernization Consultant at Ensono, you will lead an agile delivery team or a significant workstream within a larger program, owning technical outcomes, delivery quality, and the developer experience. You will remain hands‑on across architecture, design, and development while ensuring solutions achieve measurable business outcomes for our clients.

You will strengthen the Connected Services competency by advancing standards, documentation, and reusable modernization patterns, and by supporting discovery, assessments, and pre‑sales activities as needed.

You will also coach and mentor engineers in modern development practices, including the responsible use of AI assistants and agents, while fostering a collaborative, psychologically safe environment that prioritizes intent, quality, accountability, and learning.

• 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.

We want all new Associates to succeed in their roles t’s why we’ve outlined the job requirements below. To be considered for this role, it’s important that you meet all Required Qualifications. If you do not meet all of the Preferred…