Contract Technical Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ohio.

📋 Description

• Oversee the technical design and execution of a sophisticated enterprise migration and modernization initiative.

• Maintain active involvement in Java/backend development.

• Make key implementation choices and evaluate code and design submissions.

• Remove obstacles for developers and offer daily engineering support.

• Architect and troubleshoot AWS solutions spanning compute, storage, networking, services, and deployment.

• Define REST APIs and service architectures, including contracts, versioning, integrations, resilience, and error management.

• Guide complex data migration and architectural decisions concerning relational data, lineage, reconciliation, transformation, and authoritative data sources.

• Design event-driven solutions utilizing messaging, queues, producer/consumer patterns, and asynchronous workflows.

• Connect modern cloud applications with legacy databases, APIs, messaging platforms, files/SFTP, and enterprise adapters.

• Spearhead CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code initiatives using Git/GitHub, Harness, Terraform, and associated technologies.

• Set up production-ready observability and support practices, including Dynatrace, logging, monitoring, retries, error management, and troubleshooting.

• Integrate enterprise identity and security protocols, including Entra ID and role-based access controls.

• Convert architectural designs into implementable technical stories and execution plans.

• Guide engineers and establish development standards.

• Offer technical leadership throughout the delivery process.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to comprehend operational requirements and appropriately challenge technical or implementation assumptions.

⛳️ Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in complex enterprise settings.

• Recent hands-on expertise in Java and backend engineering.

• 3-5+ years of AWS architecture/design experience with a focus on implementation-level troubleshooting.

• Proven experience as a Technical Lead, Lead Java Engineer, Lead Backend Engineer, Application Architect, or hands-on Solution Architect.

• Extensive knowledge of REST APIs, microservices/service design, and enterprise integration patterns.

• Experience leading or assisting with large-scale migrations, application modernization, or legacy transformation initiatives.

• Strong understanding of relational databases, data migration, reconciliation, lineage, and system-of-record decisions.

• Proficiency in event-driven architecture, messaging, and asynchronous systems.

• Familiarity with Terraform, CI/CD, Git/GitHub, and current deployment practices.

• Experience with production observability and support, preferably including Dynatrace.

• Working knowledge of enterprise security and identity frameworks, including Entra ID.

• Ability to balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership, mentoring, story decomposition, and communication with stakeholders.

• Must be authorized to work directly for any employer in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.

• Preferred: Experience in modernizing or migrating intricate legacy enterprise systems to AWS.

• Preferred: Background in complex system integrations, high-volume data processing, or mission-critical applications.

• Preferred: Experience in the airline, rail, transportation, or similarly complex operational sectors.

• Preferred: Experience supporting crew, employee records, training, certification, or other operational data systems.

🏝️ Benefits

• Certification and tuition assistance.

• Access to digital on-demand learning courses.

• Mentorship and pathways for skill development.

• Modern Health platform for mental health and well-being, offering 1:1 care, group support sessions, and self-service resources for employees and their families.

• Carrot Fertility coverage for adoption, surrogacy, fertility treatments, pregnancy, and other family-forming care.

• Employer-sponsored funds to support fertility and family-forming care costs.

• Company-paid stipend for personalized lifestyle benefits, including student loan repayment, travel, fitness, Netflix, Spotify, and GrubHub.

• Employee Resource Groups.

• Partnership opportunities for philanthropy and pro-bono projects.

• 401(k) matching with no vesting period.

• Customizable career progression and development paths.