Contract Technical Lead

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

📋 Description

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

• Engage in hands-on development utilizing Java and backend technologies.

• Make implementation choices and evaluate code and design work.

• Assist developers in overcoming obstacles and provide daily engineering support.

• Design and troubleshoot AWS solutions across various domains, including compute, storage, networking, services, and deployment.

• Define REST APIs and service architectures, addressing 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 that utilize messaging, queues, producer/consumer patterns, and asynchronous workflows.

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

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

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

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

• Convert architectural concepts into actionable technical stories and implementation strategies.

• Mentor engineers and set development standards.

• Offer technical guidance throughout the delivery process.

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

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Recent, hands-on experience with Java and backend engineering.

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

• Experience in roles such as Technical Lead, Lead Java Engineer, Lead Backend Engineer, Application Architect, or hands-on Solution Architect.

• Strong expertise in REST APIs, microservices/service design, and enterprise integration patterns.

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

• Profound 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 including Dynatrace.

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

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

• At this time, CapTech cannot transfer nor sponsor a work visa for this position.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Certification and tuition assistance.

• Access to digital on-demand learning courses.

• Mentorship and skill development pathways.

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

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

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

• Company-funded stipend for personalized lifestyle benefits.

• Lifestyle benefits, including student loan repayment, travel, fitness, Netflix, Spotify, and GrubHub.

• Employee Resource Groups.

• Philanthropic initiatives and pro-bono projects.

• 401(k) matching with no vesting period.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• Customizable career progression and pathways.