Contract Technical Lead
About The Position
CapTech is seeking a highly technical, hands-on Technical Lead for a contractual enterprise migration and modernization initiative. This player-coach role sets technical direction while remaining closely involved in implementation, design and code reviews, troubleshooting, and day-to-day engineering guidance. The ideal candidate is a senior Java engineer who has advanced into technical leadership or architecture while retaining hands-on expertise across Java, AWS, enterprise integration, APIs, and complex data migrations. The role leads technical design and implementation, supports backend development, and designs and troubleshoots AWS solutions. It defines REST APIs and service architectures, guides data migration and event-driven designs, and integrates cloud applications with legacy systems and enterprise platforms. The Technical Lead also advances CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability, identity, and security practices; translates architecture into actionable work; mentors engineers; and partners with business stakeholders to understand operational requirements and evaluate technical assumptions.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in 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 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; CapTech cannot transfer or sponsor a work visa for this position.
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 an 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 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 challenge technical or implementation assumptions appropriately.
Benefits
- Customizable career progression and career paths.
- Certification and tuition support, digital on-demand learning courses, mentorship, and skill development paths.
- Modern Health mental health and well-being platform with one-to-one care, group support sessions, and self-serve resources for employees and families.
- Carrot Fertility and family-forming coverage, including adoption, surrogacy, fertility treatments, pregnancy, and potential employer-sponsored funds.
- Company-paid Fringe stipend for personalized lifestyle benefits, with options including student loan repayment, travel, fitness, and subscriptions.
- 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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