Contract Technical Lead - Enterprise Java & AWS (Hands-On)

CapTech; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 138,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning & Development – Certification

Modern Health

Carrot Fertility

Fringe stipend

Employee Resource Groups

Philanthropic Partnerships

401(k) Matching

Job summary

CapTech, an award-winning consulting firm, seeks a Contract Technical Lead to guide a large‑scale migration and modernization program. This player‑coach role blends technical direction with hands‑on implementation, design reviews, troubleshooting, and daily engineering guidance.

The ideal candidate is a senior Java engineer who has progressed into leadership, with deep experience in Java, AWS, APIs, data migrations, and enterprise integration.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience in complex enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience with Java and backend engineering.
• 3-5+ years of AWS architecture/design experience with implementation troubleshooting.
• Experience as a Technical Lead or similar leadership role in large migrations.
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs, microservices, and enterprise integration patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design and implementation for a complex enterprise migration and modernization program.
• Remain hands-on with Java/backend development, reviewing code, making implementation decisions, and unblocking developers.
• Design and troubleshoot AWS solutions across compute, storage, networking, services, and deployment.
• Define REST APIs and service architectures, including contracts, versioning, and integrations.

Skills

Java backend

AWS architecture

REST APIs

Migration experience

Leadership mentoring

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Dynatrace

CI/CD

Messaging systems

Job description

CapTech, an award-winning consulting firm, seeks a Contract Technical Lead to guide a large‑scale migration and modernization program. This player‑coach role blends technical direction with hands‑on implementation, design reviews, troubleshooting, and daily engineering guidance.

The ideal candidate is a senior Java engineer who has progressed into leadership, with deep experience in Java, AWS, APIs, data migrations, and enterprise integration.