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Lead Application Modernization Consultant

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Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Thu, Oct 29, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

Leading an agile delivery team remotely, the full-time Lead Application Modernization Consultant will own technical outcomes, ensure delivery quality, and enhance the developer experience while driving application modernization efforts for clients.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead an agile delivery team or significant workstream, ensuring solutions deliver measurable business outcomes for clients
  • Proactively identify and mitigate technical and delivery risks related to legacy dependencies and new technologies
  • Drive application modernization efforts by assessing legacy codebases and recommending appropriate modernization strategies
Required Qualifications:
  • 7+ years of experience in software engineering or application development, including 3+ years in application modernization or technical leadership
  • Hands-on proficiency in at least one mainstream programming language, such as Java, .NET, or Python
  • Experience leading modernization of large-scale, complex applications, including cloud-native and microservices architectures
  • Strong experience designing distributed systems on Azure, AWS, or GCP
  • Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams

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