Senior Java Tech Lead - Enterprise Migration (Contract)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Learning & Development – certification

Modern Health – mental health support

Carrot Fertility – family-forming and育

Fringe – lifestyle benefits stipend

Employee Resource Groups

Philanthropic Partnerships

401(k) Matching

Job summary

CapTech Consulting seeks a highly technical, hands-on Technical Lead to guide a large-scale enterprise migration and modernization program. You will set technical direction while remaining deeply involved in implementation, design and code reviews, troubleshooting, and day-to-day guidance of engineering teams.

The ideal candidate is a senior Java engineer with leadership experience, strong AWS, enterprise integration, APIs, and data migration expertise, capable of mentoring engineers and

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 troubleshooting at implementation level.
• Experience as Technical Lead / Lead Engineer / Architect.
• Strong experience with REST APIs, microservices, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience leading large-scale migrations or modernization initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases and data migrations.
• 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.
• Knowledge of enterprise security and identity, including Entra ID.
• Ability to balance hands-on engineering with leadership and stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design and implementation for a complex enterprise migration and modernization program.
• Remain hands-on with Java/backend development, reviewing code and designs, and guiding engineers.
• Design and troubleshoot AWS solutions across compute, storage, networking, services, and deployment.
• Define REST APIs and service architectures, contracts, versioning, integrations, resilience, and failure handling.
• Lead complex data migration and architecture decisions involving relational data, lineage, reconciliation, and authoritative data sources.
• Design event-driven solutions using messaging, queues, and asynchronous workflows.
• Integrate modern cloud apps with legacy databases, APIs, messaging platforms, files/SFTP, and enterprise adapters.
• Drive CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code using Git/GitHub, Harness, Terraform, and related technologies.
• Establish production-ready observability and support practices (Dynatrace, logging, monitoring, retries).
• Incorporate enterprise identity and security standards (Entra ID, RBAC).
• Translate architecture into actionable stories and plans.
• Mentor engineers and define development standards.
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand requirements and challenge assumptions.

Skills

Java backend

AWS

REST APIs

Microservices

CI/CD

Terraform

Git/GitHub

Observability/Dynatrace

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Harness

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

CapTech Consulting seeks a highly technical, hands-on Technical Lead to guide a large-scale enterprise migration and modernization program. You will set technical direction while remaining deeply involved in implementation, design and code reviews, troubleshooting, and day-to-day guidance of engineering teams.

The ideal candidate is a senior Java engineer with leadership experience, strong AWS, enterprise integration, APIs, and data migration expertise, capable of mentoring engineers and