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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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Verify your degree supports specialty occupation
USCIS evaluates whether your degree field directly relates to Application Consultant duties. A computer science or information systems degree is a strong match; a general business degree may require supplemental documentation linking your coursework to the specific software domain.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Use Migrate Mate to filter Application Consultant roles by employers who have certified Labor Condition Applications for this occupation. Active LCA history signals a sponsor already familiar with the H-1B process for your exact role type.
Confirm the role title maps to your SOC code
DOL certifies LCAs by Standard Occupational Classification code. Ask the recruiter which SOC code the employer is using for the role. Mismatches between your duties and the SOC code are a common source of RFEs during adjudication.
Check prevailing wage before negotiating compensation
Look up the wage level for your occupation and metro area using the OFLC Wage Search before you discuss salary. Your employer must pay at least the prevailing wage on the certified LCA, so knowing Level I through Level IV thresholds gives you a real floor for negotiation.
Clarify project-based travel terms before filing
Application Consultant roles often require on-site client deployments. USCIS scrutinizes petitions where the worksite differs from the employer's address. Confirm your employer will file an amended H-1B or itinerary letter when extended assignments move you to a new client location.
Request premium processing for client start-date commitments
Consulting project timelines rarely accommodate standard USCIS processing windows. Ask your employer to file with premium processing so adjudication completes within 15 business days, protecting your ability to meet a client go-live date tied to your start.
H-1B Visa Application Consultant: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Application Consultant role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, provided the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as computer science, information systems, or business administration. USCIS looks at both the employer's job description and your actual degree. If your degree is in a tangential field, a credential evaluation or supporting documentation from the employer linking your coursework to the role can strengthen the petition.
How do I find employers who regularly sponsor H-1B visas for Application Consultant positions?
Search Migrate Mate for Application Consultant roles filtered by employers with verified H-1B filing history. DOL Labor Condition Application disclosure data shows which companies have certified LCAs for this occupation code, so you're targeting employers who have already navigated the process for your specific role type rather than guessing at sponsorship willingness.
Can my employer file an H-1B petition if I'll be working at client sites rather than their own office?
Yes, but the employer must document the worksite on the LCA and, for extended client assignments, may need to file an amended petition if the location changes materially. USCIS requires third-party worksite attestations in some cases. Confirm with your employer before accepting a role that involves long-term on-site client deployments in different metro areas.
What happens to my H-1B status if a consulting project ends and I'm between client assignments?
You remain in valid H-1B status as long as your employer-employee relationship continues and you're being paid the LCA wage. A gap between client projects doesn't automatically affect your status, but your employer must maintain the employment relationship and prevailing wage obligation throughout the approved petition period.
Does the O*NET occupation profile for Application Consultant support the specialty occupation argument?
O*NET classifies roles similar to Application Consultant under Job Zone 4, which requires substantial preparation including a bachelor's degree. Including the O*NET job zone classification in your employer's support letter reinforces the specialty occupation argument by demonstrating that the occupation itself, not just this employer's preference, typically requires a relevant degree.