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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
- 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.
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
- 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.
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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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as an Application Engineer
Match your degree to the petition category
EB-2 requires a master's degree or a bachelor's plus five years of progressive experience in a related engineering field. If your employer files under EB-3, a bachelor's in electrical, mechanical, or computer engineering generally satisfies the minimum requirements USCIS expects for this role.
Document your technical specialization early
PERM labor certification requires your employer to define the job duties precisely. Gather performance reviews, project scopes, and any published technical documentation now. Gaps between your resume and the certified job description can trigger a Request for Evidence during the I-140 stage.
Search employers with active EB filing history
Target companies that have filed PERM applications for Application Engineer or closely related SOC codes in the last three years. Use Migrate Mate to filter green-card-sponsoring employers by role and industry, so you're talking to hiring managers who already know the process.
Ask about the prevailing wage determination upfront
Before accepting an offer, confirm the employer intends to meet the DOL prevailing wage for your specific work location. Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the wage level for your SOC code and metro area, and verify the offer falls at or above that threshold.
Understand how priority date backlog affects your timeline
If you were born in India or China, EB-3 priority date backlogs can stretch your green card wait by years beyond the PERM and I-140 stages. Confirm your country's current cut-off date with USCIS before comparing offers, since timeline differences between employers can be significant.
Negotiate portability protection into your employment plan
Once your I-485 adjustment of status application has been pending for 180 days and your I-140 is approved, AC21 portability lets you change to a same-or-similar role without restarting your green card. Negotiate job title flexibility with your employer before filing so you're not locked into a single position description.
Green Card Application Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Application Engineer role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Both categories are available, depending on how the employer defines the position. EB-2 applies when the role requires a master's degree or its equivalent in experience. EB-3 covers positions requiring a bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field. Your employer chooses the category when filing the PERM labor certification, and that choice shapes both the filing requirements and, for some nationalities, the priority date backlog you'll face.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for this role?
H-1B visa is a temporary nonimmigrant status tied to an employer and subject to an annual lottery cap. Green card sponsorship through PERM and I-140 leads to permanent residency, has no annual cap at the EB-3 level for most countries, and isn't lottery-based. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM labor certification alone takes six months to over a year, and priority date backlogs add more wait time for applicants born in India or China.
What does the PERM labor certification process require from my employer?
Your employer must conduct a supervised recruitment campaign to demonstrate no qualified U.S. workers are available for the position. They file the ETA 9089 with DOL, document the recruitment results, and certify the offered wage meets the prevailing wage for your location. You don't file anything at the PERM stage, but your education and experience credentials must match the certified job requirements exactly when USCIS reviews the I-140 petition.
How do I find Application Engineer jobs with green card sponsorship?
Search for employers with a documented history of filing PERM applications for engineering roles, not just companies that say they're open to sponsorship. Migrate Mate filters job listings by employers with active green card filing history, so you can focus your applications on companies that have already run the PERM process for comparable positions rather than starting from scratch with an employer who's never sponsored a foreign worker.
Can I switch employers after my green card process has started?
You can change employers under AC21 portability once your I-485 has been pending for at least 180 days and your I-140 is approved, as long as the new role is in the same or a similar occupational classification. If you change jobs before those thresholds, your green card process generally restarts from the PERM stage with the new employer. Confirm the new role's SOC code aligns with your certified petition before accepting an offer.