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Lead Application Modernization Consultant
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.
About the role and what you’ll be doing:
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.
Key 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.
We want all new Associates to succeed in their roles at Ensono. That’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 Qualifications, we still encourage you to apply.
What You Will Need:
- 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.
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience supporting application modernization discovery, assessments, solutioning, or pre-sales activities.
- Experience creating reusable engineering assets, standards, reference architectures, documentation, or modernization patterns across multiple engagements.
- Experience supporting technical interviews, engineering assessments, or broader capability-building initiatives.
- Experience working with AI-assisted development tools or agents in enterprise software engineering environments.
- Relevant cloud or architecture certifications from Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
Why Ensono?
Ensono is a place to make better happen – for our clients and for your career. You can do great things through innovation or collaboration, by learning or volunteering, or to promote diversity and inclusion. You can do great things for your own health or for a healthier planet. Whatever it means to you to do great things we want Ensono to be the place you can do it.
We are a client-facing business, but we do encourage clients to allow us to work remotely most of the time so if you are not required to be on a client site, you can choose to work from home or in our Ensono offices.
Some of our benefits include:
- Unlimited Paid Days Off
- Three health plan options
- 401k with company match
- Eligibility for dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life and AD&D coverage, and flexible spending accounts
- Family Forming Benefit including fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy reimbursement
- Paid childbearing and paternal leave
- Education Reimbursement, Student Loan Assistance or 529 College Funding
- Sabbatical leave
- Wellness program
- Flexible work schedule
As of the date of this posting, a good faith estimate of the current pay scale for this role is $125,000 to $168,000 annually based on a full-time schedule. Please note that placement in the range may vary based on numerous factors including but not limited to skills, experience, internal equity, and business needs. In addition to base salary, other compensation programs, depending on eligibility, include an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, and an equity grant under our Associate Equity Appreciation Program.
Ensono is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to providing equal employment to our Associates and building a diverse and inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.
Pay transparency nondiscrimination statement/posting OFCCP’s pay transparency policy can be found on OFCCP’s website.
If you need accommodation at any point during the application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email USTalentAcquisition@ensono.com.
Lead Application Modernization Consultant
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.
About the role and what you’ll be doing:
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.
Key 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.
We want all new Associates to succeed in their roles at Ensono. That’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 Qualifications, we still encourage you to apply.
What You Will Need:
- 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.
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience supporting application modernization discovery, assessments, solutioning, or pre-sales activities.
- Experience creating reusable engineering assets, standards, reference architectures, documentation, or modernization patterns across multiple engagements.
- Experience supporting technical interviews, engineering assessments, or broader capability-building initiatives.
- Experience working with AI-assisted development tools or agents in enterprise software engineering environments.
- Relevant cloud or architecture certifications from Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
Why Ensono?
Ensono is a place to make better happen – for our clients and for your career. You can do great things through innovation or collaboration, by learning or volunteering, or to promote diversity and inclusion. You can do great things for your own health or for a healthier planet. Whatever it means to you to do great things we want Ensono to be the place you can do it.
We are a client-facing business, but we do encourage clients to allow us to work remotely most of the time so if you are not required to be on a client site, you can choose to work from home or in our Ensono offices.
Some of our benefits include:
- Unlimited Paid Days Off
- Three health plan options
- 401k with company match
- Eligibility for dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life and AD&D coverage, and flexible spending accounts
- Family Forming Benefit including fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy reimbursement
- Paid childbearing and paternal leave
- Education Reimbursement, Student Loan Assistance or 529 College Funding
- Sabbatical leave
- Wellness program
- Flexible work schedule
As of the date of this posting, a good faith estimate of the current pay scale for this role is $125,000 to $168,000 annually based on a full-time schedule. Please note that placement in the range may vary based on numerous factors including but not limited to skills, experience, internal equity, and business needs. In addition to base salary, other compensation programs, depending on eligibility, include an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, and an equity grant under our Associate Equity Appreciation Program.
Ensono is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to providing equal employment to our Associates and building a diverse and inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.
Pay transparency nondiscrimination statement/posting OFCCP’s pay transparency policy can be found on OFCCP’s website.
If you need accommodation at any point during the application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email USTalentAcquisition@ensono.com.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in application consultant jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in information systems, business, or a related field
- Experience implementing or configuring enterprise software platforms such as Salesforce, SAP, or Workday
- Proven ability to gather business requirements and translate them into system configurations
- Strong client-facing communication and stakeholder management skills
- Familiarity with project delivery methodologies including agile and waterfall
- Relevant platform certifications such as Salesforce Administrator or SAP Certified Application Associate
Tips for Your Application Consultant Job Search
Tailor your resume to each platform
Application consultants are often hired for a specific platform, so listing Salesforce, SAP, or Workday in your resume header signals fit immediately. Recruiters scan for the platform name first, then dig into your implementation experience.
Quantify your implementation outcomes
Hiring managers want to know how many end users you onboarded, how many modules you configured, or how fast go-live happened. Replace vague phrases like 'assisted with deployment' with specific delivery milestones you owned or contributed to directly.
Target roles by deployment methodology
Some employers run waterfall implementations, others use agile sprints. Filtering your search by methodology terms in the job description, then mirroring that language in your application, shows you understand how their team actually delivers projects.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists application consultant openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a configuration scenario for interviews
Many application consultant interviews include a live demo or walkthrough where you configure a module or map a business process. Practicing a tight five-minute scenario using a free sandbox environment shows hands-on readiness that a resume alone cannot.
Negotiate your travel expectations upfront
Client-facing consultant roles often carry implicit travel expectations that differ from what the posting states. Ask directly about on-site requirements during your first interview so you can evaluate whether the role matches your actual availability before receiving an offer.
Application Consultant Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most application consultants?
The companies hiring the most application consultants right now include Capgemini, Amazon Web Services, and Swickard Auto, with the largest share of openings in Georgia, California, and Tennessee, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is concentrated in professional services firms and large enterprise software vendors with active implementation practices.
How many application consultant jobs are remote?
About 91% of application consultant openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, making it one of the more flexible consulting roles available. Post-implementation support, training delivery, and configuration work tend to be the most remote-friendly sub-areas, while initial discovery and go-live phases more often require on-site presence.
How do you become an application consultant?
Start by earning a degree in information systems, business administration, or a related field, then pursue a platform-specific certification in a widely adopted enterprise system. Build hands-on experience through internships, entry-level implementation analyst roles, or sandbox projects you can demo. Client-facing communication skills are as important as technical configuration ability, so practice translating business problems into system solutions.
Can you get hired as an application consultant with little or no experience?
Yes, many employers hire junior application consultants or implementation analysts who come from adjacent roles such as business analysis, IT support, or customer success. Earning a free or low-cost platform certification and building a demo project in a sandbox environment gives you concrete evidence of hands-on ability that partially offsets limited professional experience when applying.
What does the application consultant interview process look like?
Most application consultant interviews include a recruiter screen, a hiring manager conversation focused on past implementations or client scenarios, and a technical or platform exercise where you configure a module, map a process, or walk through a requirements-gathering approach. Final rounds often involve a panel with a project manager or delivery lead who evaluates how you communicate with non-technical stakeholders.
Where can I find and apply to application consultant jobs?
You can find and apply to application consultant jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your platform experience and seniority level, then apply directly to each listing.
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