Contract Technical Lead

CapTech Consulting•Denver, CO

1h•$80 - $100

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 remaining actively involved in implementation, design and code reviews, troubleshooting, and day-to-day engineering guidance. The ideal candidate is a senior Java engineer who has moved into technical leadership or architecture while retaining hands-on expertise across Java, AWS, enterprise integration, APIs, and complex data migrations. The Technical Lead will lead technical design and implementation, make backend implementation decisions, and guide engineers through delivery. The role also involves designing AWS solutions, REST APIs, service architectures, event-driven systems, and complex data migrations; integrating cloud applications with legacy and enterprise systems; and establishing CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability, support, identity, and security practices. The position partners with business stakeholders to understand operational requirements and translate architecture into actionable plans and technical stories. CapTech offers career paths and a comprehensive benefits package, including learning and development support, well-being and family-forming resources, personalized lifestyle benefits, employee resource groups, philanthropic opportunities, and 401(k) matching. The stated base pay range is $80–$100 per hour. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship; CapTech cannot transfer or sponsor a work visa for this position.

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.
Applicants 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/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

Learning and development programs, certification and tuition support, digital on-demand courses, mentorship, and skill development paths.
Modern Health mental health and well-being platform with 1:1 care, group support sessions, and self-serve resources for employees and their families.
Carrot Fertility coverage and potential employer-sponsored funds for fertility, family-forming, pregnancy, adoption, and surrogacy care.
Company-paid Fringe stipend for personalized lifestyle benefits.
Employee Resource Groups.
Philanthropic partnerships and opportunities to participate in pro-bono community projects.
401(k) matching with no vesting period.

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