Senior Technology Consultant

About Us (Ensono)

 Ensono is an expert technology adviser and managed service provider. As a relentless ally, we accelerate clients’ digital transformation to achieve business outcomes that stand to last. Our dedicated team helps organizations optimize today’s systems across any hybrid environment with services such as consulting, mainframe and application modernization, public cloud migration and cloud-native development. With certified experts in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud and recognized as Microsoft Datacenter Transformation Partner of the Year, Ensono has over 3500+ associates globally and is headquartered in greater Chicago.

We care about your success, offering comprehensive strategic and managed services for mission-critical applications. Our Advisory and Consulting services can help upfront with an application strategy or find the right places for your applications – whether it’s public, multi or hybrid cloud, or mainframe. And because we span across all mission-critical platforms, we can meet you wherever you are in your digital transformation journey, with 24/7 support when you need it. We are your relentless ally, flexing with you when challenges emerge so you don’t feel stuck in place. With cross-platform certifications and decades of experience, our technology experts have become an extension of your team so you’re continuously innovating – doing more with less while remaining secure. And that’s just the beginning.

Job Summary

Do you see yourself working with smart, motivated people that build creative solutions to challenging problems? Ensono is seeking to fill a newly created position on our software modernization tools team.  Joining our team as a senior software engineer, you will be tasked with extending the capabilities and value of our AI and automation-enriched tools that refactor and optimize legacy code and data.

A qualified candidate is a full stack senior software engineer with experience in JAVA or .Net development.  This smart, passionate, and curious problem solver will support our refactoring tool stack.  While previous experiences with compiler development, IDE plugin development, legacy programming languages, and mainframe data migration projects would have you standing out amongst the crowd, it’s not required.  If necessary, we’ll align you with others to groom your skills and knowledge in these areas. 

Principle Responsibilities

• Analyze, design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain software.
• Lead designs for new features that expand the capabilities of our refactoring tool stack.
• Participate in or lead design and code reviews with peers and stakeholders.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Triage product issues and analyze the impact on business outcomes.
• Contribute to existing documentation and educational content.

Skills & Behaviors that are reliable indications that you can contribute

• Experience in mainframe migrations – code and data conversions
• Experience with Java or C#
• Hands on experience with Eclipse, IntelliJ, and/or Visual Studio plugin development
• Experience in compiler development or PROLOG is a big plus
• Experience or knowledge of the IBM Z platform architecture
• Experience with React, angular or similar front end technologies and frameworks
• Strong experience in database design fundamentals
• Exposure to agile ways of working and code deployment and familiar with Jira, Git/SVN, Jenkins, CI/CD, containerization
• Self-motivated and driven to define and complete deliverables
• Excellent analytic, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
• Fearless in researching, deploying, and leveraging technologies that achieve the best results
• Strong verbal and written communications skills

Preferred Education or Equivalent Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, or equivalent work-related experience
• Certifications in related technology fields is a plus