Contract Technical Lead

CapTech Consulting • Columbus, OH

2h • $80 - $100

About The Position

CapTech is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead on a contractual basis to support a large-scale enterprise migration and modernization initiative. This player-coach role sets technical direction while staying closely involved in implementation, design and code reviews, troubleshooting, and day-to-day guidance of engineering teams. The ideal candidate is a senior Java engineer who has advanced into technical leadership or architecture and retains deep hands-on experience with Java, AWS, enterprise integration, APIs, and complex data migrations.

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 and design experience, including implementation-level troubleshooting.
• Experience 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.
• Must be authorized to work directly for any employer in the United States without visa sponsorship.

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

• 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.
• Carrot Fertility coverage and potential employer-sponsored funds for fertility, family-forming, adoption, surrogacy, and related care.
• Company-paid 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.
• Comprehensive benefits package.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed