Contract Technical Lead: Java, AWS & Data Migration

CapTech Consulting; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 138,000; Full time

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Job summary

CapTech Consulting is seeking a senior Java engineer who will transition into a hands-on Technical Lead role for a large-scale migration and modernization program. You will set technical direction while actively implementing, reviewing code, and guiding engineering teams.

You will design REST APIs, lead data migrations, and drive CI/CD and IaC using GitHub, Harness, and Terraform, with a focus on observability and security practices across Entra ID and RBAC.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering in complex enterprise environments.
• Recent hands-on Java backend development experience.
• 3-5+ years of AWS architecture/design experience with implementation troubleshooting.
• Experience serving as a 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 or supporting large-scale migrations, application modernization, or legacy transformation programs.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, data migration, reconciliation, 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.
• Experience with production observability and support, ideally including 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design and implementation for a complex enterprise migration and modernization program.
• Remain hands-on with Java/backend development, making implementation decisions, reviewing code and designs, and unblocking 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 complex 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 role-based access controls.
• Translate architecture into actionable technical stories and implementation plans.
• Mentor engineers, establish development standards, and provide technical direction throughout delivery.
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand operational requirements and appropriately challenge technical or implementation assumptions.

Skills

Java backend

AWS architecture

REST APIs

Microservices

CI/CD

Terraform

Dynatrace

Entra ID

Leadership

Data migration

Tools

Terraform

Git/GitHub

Harness

Job description

CapTech Consulting is seeking a senior Java engineer who will transition into a hands-on Technical Lead role for a large-scale migration and modernization program. You will set technical direction while actively implementing, reviewing code, and guiding engineering teams.

You will design REST APIs, lead data migrations, and drive CI/CD and IaC using GitHub, Harness, and Terraform, with a focus on observability and security practices across Entra ID and RBAC.