Contract Technical Lead

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

📋 Description

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

• Engage in hands-on Java/backend development.

• Make critical implementation choices and evaluate code and design.

• Resolve issues and assist developers in overcoming obstacles.

• Architect and troubleshoot AWS solutions across computing, storage, networking, services, and deployment.

• Define REST APIs and service architectures, covering contracts, versioning, integrations, resilience, and failure management.

• Lead decisions on data migration and architecture concerning relational data, lineage, reconciliation, transformation, and authoritative data sources.

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

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

• Promote CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code methodologies using Git/GitHub, Harness, Terraform, and related technologies.

• Establish production observability and support practices using Dynatrace, logging, monitoring, retries, error handling, and troubleshooting techniques.

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

• Convert architecture into technical stories and implementation strategies.

• Mentor engineers and set development standards.

• Provide technical guidance throughout the delivery process.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to comprehend operational needs and question technical or implementation assumptions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in software engineering, particularly in complex enterprise settings.

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

• 3–5+ years of AWS architecture/design experience with practical troubleshooting capabilities.

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

• Extensive experience with REST APIs, microservices/service design, and enterprise integration patterns.

• Experience in leading or supporting large-scale migrations, application modernization, or legacy transformation efforts.

• In-depth knowledge of relational databases, data migration, reconciliation, lineage, and system-of-record decisions.

• Familiarity with event-driven architecture, messaging, and asynchronous systems.

• Proficient in Terraform, CI/CD, Git/GitHub, and contemporary deployment practices.

• Experience with production observability and support, ideally involving 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.

• Preferred: experience in modernizing or migrating complex legacy enterprise systems to AWS.

• Preferred: background in intricate system integrations, high-volume data, or mission-critical applications.

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

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

• Applicants must be authorized to work directly for any employer in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Support for certification and tuition.

• Digital on-demand learning courses.

• Mentorship and skill enhancement pathways.

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

• Coverage for adoption, surrogacy, fertility treatments, pregnancy, and other family-forming needs through Carrot Fertility.

• Employer-sponsored funds to assist with fertility and family-forming care expenses.

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

• Participation in Employee Resource Groups.

• Opportunities for philanthropic partnerships and pro-bono projects.

• 401(k) matching with no vesting period.

• Commitment to Equal Pay.

• Customizable career progression and paths.