Contract Senior Tech Lead - Enterprise Migration & AWS

CapTech Consulting

Reston (VA)

On-site

USD 110,000 - 138,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

CapTech is seeking a Contract Technical Lead to drive a large-scale enterprise migration and modernization in Reston, VA. This player-coach role combines hands-on Java development with architectural leadership, code reviews, and day-to-day guidance of engineering teams.

The ideal candidate is a senior Java engineer who has progressed into technical leadership with deep experience in AWS, APIs, and complex data migrations, and who can mentor engineers while defining standards and collaborating

Qualifications

10+ years of software engineering experience in complex enterprise environments.
Recent hands-on experience with Java and backend engineering.
3-5+ years of AWS architecture/design experience with implementation troubleshooting.
Experience as 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 large-scale migrations, modernization, or legacy transformation programs.
Knowledge of relational databases, data migration, 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.
Observes production observability and support, ideally including Dynatrace.
Knowledge of enterprise security and identity including Entra ID.
Ability to balance hands-on engineering with leadership, mentoring, story decomposition, and stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

Lead technical design and implementation for a complex enterprise migration and modernization program.
Remain hands-on with Java/backend development and 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 RBAC.
Translate architecture into actionable technical stories and implementation plans.
Mentor engineers, establish development standards, and provide technical direction during delivery.
Partner with business stakeholders to understand operational requirements and challenge technical assumptions.