Java Technical Lead

iSpace, Inc.; Torrance (CA); Hybrid; USD 77,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Honda Digital Services Development is seeking a Technical Lead/Application Architect to guide the design and delivery of enterprise-scale digital applications. You will own architecture decisions, drive cloud-native solutions on AWS, and mentor engineering teams across distributed systems.

The role emphasizes security, reliability, and performance in a hybrid environment in Torrance, CA. You will collaborate with product owners and security teams to ensure architecture compliance while advancing

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience developing large-scale enterprise applications and distributed systems.
• 3+ years in a senior technical leadership role such as Technical Lead or Lead Engineer.
• Experience in architecture design for Java/J2EE based stacks including Spring ecosystem.
• Proven ability to lead architecture reviews, code reviews, and mentoring.
• Strong background in cloud-native architectures on AWS and related services.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and design for enterprise-scale solutions using Java/J2EE and Spring.</n><li>Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineering teams.</li><li>Drive cloud-native, microservices-based solutions using AWS with EKS/ECS and serverless components.</li><li>Design scalable REST APIs and event-driven architectures with Kafka and messaging platforms.</li><li>Champion DevOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices (Terraform, CloudFormation, Jenkins, ArgoCD).</li><li>Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.</li>
• Lead proofs-of-concept, modernization initiatives, and AI-assisted development efforts.

Skills

Java/J2EE

Spring Boot

Spring Integration

Spring Data

Hibernate

Technical leadership

AWS cloud

Microservices

REST APIs

DevOps

Infrastructure as Code

Kafka

JMS

AMQ

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

ArgoCD

GitHub Copilot

Amazon Q

Cursor

Claude

OpenAI

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

ArgoCD

GitHub Copilot

Amazon Q

Cursor

Claude

OpenAI

Job description

Location :- Torrance, CA (Hybrid role 4 days Onsite, 1 day work from home)

Pay rate $66 Per hr on W2 Max

Only GC and USC local to Los Angeles, CA.

The Technical Lead/Application Architect at Honda Digital Services Development will deliver exceptional support to develop meaningful digital experience and strengthen our customer experience. The Tech Lead will support all digital applications, architecture, development, production support, and solutioning.

Key Responsibilities:

• 5-10 years of experience developing large-scale enterprise applications, distributed systems, and cloud-native backend platforms.
• 3+ years of experience in a senior technical leadership role such as Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, or similar hands-on engineering leadership positions.
• Contribute to application and solution architecture while leading the design, development, and implementation of enterprise-scale solutions utilizing Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Spring Data, JPA, Hibernate, and related technologies.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams through architecture reviews, design discussions, code reviews, and mentoring activities.
• Participate in architecture design governance, technology evaluation, technical decision-making, and solution reviews to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and architectural best practices.
• Drive adoption of cloud-native architectures and modern engineering practices using AWS services including EKS, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, IAM, CloudWatch, and related technologies.
• Design and implement scalable microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architectures, and enterprise integration solutions utilizing Kafka, Red Hat AMQ, JMS, and similar messaging platforms.
• Lead technical design and engineering decisions for highly available, secure, resilient, and scalable distributed systems following AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
• Drive architectural considerations related to scalability, performance, reliability, security, maintainability, observability, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with product owners, architects, infrastructure teams, security teams, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Champion DevOps, GitOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices utilizing tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and related CI/CD technologies.
• Evaluate, adopt, and promote AI-assisted engineering capabilities using tools such as GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q, Cursor, Claude, OpenAI, and similar solutions to improve development productivity and software quality.
• Lead proof-of-concepts, technology evaluations, modernization initiatives, and engineering innovation efforts involving cloud, platform engineering, observability, and AI-assisted development.
• Act as a technical mentor and trusted advisor while fostering a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.

Experience working within Agile delivery models and leading distributed Agile