Senior Java Tech Lead - Enterprise Migration & Modernize

CapTech Consulting; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 110,000 - 138,000; Full time

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Job summary

CapTech is seeking a Contract Technical Lead to guide a large-scale migration and modernization project. This player-coach role requires setting technical direction while staying deeply involved in implementation, design, reviews, and guidance for engineering teams.

The ideal candidate is a senior Java engineer with AWS, enterprise integration, APIs, and data migration experience who can translate architecture into actionable plans, mentor engineers, and collaborate with stakeholders across

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on Java with leadership and architecture experience.
• Experience migrating and modernizing large enterprise systems.
• Strong REST and microservices knowledge.
• Proficient in AWS and security practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation for an enterprise migration and modernization program.
• Remain hands-on with Java backend, review code and designs, unblock developers.
• Design AWS solutions across compute, storage, networking, services, deployments.
• Define REST APIs, service architectures, contracts, versioning, resilience.
• Lead data migrations including lineage, transformation, and authoritative data sources.
• Design event-driven solutions with messaging and asynchronous workflows.
• Integrate cloud apps with legacy systems and enterprise adapters.
• Drive CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code using Git/GitHub, Harness, Terraform.
• Establish observability and support using Dynatrace, logging, monitoring.
• Adhere to enterprise security and Entra ID.
• Translate architecture into actionable stories and plans.
• Mentor engineers and set development standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to validate requirements.

Skills

Java backend

AWS architecture

REST APIs

Data migrations

Leadership

Code reviews

CI/CD

Terraform

Dynatrace

Security basics

Tools

Git/GitHub

Terraform

Dynatrace

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

CapTech is seeking a Contract Technical Lead to guide a large-scale migration and modernization project. This player-coach role requires setting technical direction while staying deeply involved in implementation, design, reviews, and guidance for engineering teams.

The ideal candidate is a senior Java engineer with AWS, enterprise integration, APIs, and data migration experience who can translate architecture into actionable plans, mentor engineers, and collaborate with stakeholders across