Contract Technical Lead
About The Position
CapTech is seeking a highly technical, hands-on Technical Lead for a contractual role supporting a large-scale enterprise migration and modernization initiative. This player-coach position sets technical direction while contributing directly to implementation, design and code reviews, troubleshooting, and day-to-day engineering guidance. The ideal candidate is a senior Java engineer who has grown into technical leadership or architecture while staying hands-on, with substantial experience in Java, AWS, enterprise integration, APIs, and complex data migrations. The role leads technical design and implementation, advises on AWS solutions and REST API and service architecture, and makes decisions for complex data migrations and event-driven systems. It also integrates cloud applications with legacy enterprise technologies, advances CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code, establishes production observability and support practices, and applies enterprise identity and security standards. The Technical Lead translates architecture into actionable implementation plans, mentors engineers, and partners with business stakeholders to understand operational needs and challenge assumptions where appropriate.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, ideally within complex enterprise environments.
- Recent, hands-on experience with Java and backend engineering.
- 3–5+ years of AWS architecture/design experience, with the ability to troubleshoot at an implementation level.
- Experience serving as a Technical Lead, Lead Java Engineer, Lead Backend Engineer, Application Architect, or hands-on Solution Architect.
- Strong experience with REST APIs, microservices/service design, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Experience leading or supporting large-scale migrations, application modernization, or legacy transformation programs.
- Strong knowledge of relational databases, data migration, reconciliation, lineage, and system-of-record decisions.
- Experience with event-driven architecture, messaging, and asynchronous systems.
- Experience with Terraform, CI/CD, Git/GitHub, and modern deployment practices.
- Experience with production observability and support, ideally including Dynatrace.
- Working knowledge of enterprise security and identity, including Entra ID.
- Ability to balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership, mentoring, story decomposition, and stakeholder communication.
Nice To Haves
- Experience modernizing or migrating complex legacy enterprise systems to AWS.
- Background working in environments with complicated system integrations, high-volume data, or mission-critical applications.
- Experience within airline, rail, transportation, or similarly complex operational industries.
- Experience supporting systems involving crew, employee records, training, certification, or other operational data.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical design and implementation for a complex enterprise migration and modernization program.
- Remain hands-on with Java and backend development, make implementation decisions, review code and designs, and unblock developers.
- Design and troubleshoot AWS solutions across compute, storage, networking, services, and deployment.
- Define REST APIs and service architectures, including contracts, versioning, integrations, resilience, and failure handling.
- Lead complex data migration and architecture decisions involving relational data, lineage, reconciliation, transformation, and authoritative data sources.
- Design event-driven solutions using messaging, queues, producer/consumer patterns, and asynchronous workflows.
- Integrate modern cloud applications with legacy databases, APIs, messaging platforms, files/SFTP, and enterprise adapters.
- Drive CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code practices using Git/GitHub, Harness, Terraform, and related technologies.
- Establish production-ready observability and support practices, including Dynatrace, logging, monitoring, retries, error handling, and troubleshooting.
- Incorporate enterprise identity and security standards, including Entra ID and role-based access controls.
- Translate architecture into actionable technical stories and implementation plans.
- Mentor engineers, establish development standards, and provide technical direction throughout delivery.
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand operational requirements and appropriately challenge technical or implementation assumptions.
Benefits
- Customizable career progression and career paths.
- Certification and tuition support, on-demand learning courses, mentorship, and skill development paths.
- Modern Health mental health and well-being platform, including 1:1 care, group support sessions, and self-serve resources for employees and their families.
- Carrot Fertility family-forming coverage, including adoption, surrogacy, fertility treatments, and pregnancy, with potential employer-sponsored funds.
- Company-paid Fringe stipend for personalized lifestyle benefits.
- Employee Resource Groups.
- Opportunities to participate in philanthropic partnerships and pro-bono projects.
- 401(k) matching with no vesting period.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
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