Senior Technical Lead

Eliassen Group; Culver City (CA); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Technical Lead in Culver City, CA to drive architecture, engineering leadership, and delivery across full stack, cloud, data, and AI-enabled software engineering. Role requires hands-on depth in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, and modern web frameworks with AWS or equivalent clouds.

The position blends new development with complex production support and includes mentoring, engineering best practices, and AI-assisted development to improve quality, velocity,

Qualifications

• 12–18 years of progressive software engineering leadership with hands-on full stack delivery.
• Cloud expertise in AWS, Azure, or equivalent, including cloud-native patterns, security, and automation.
• Backend expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and microservices; frontend experience with Angular or React.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end technical architecture and solution design across cloud, web, SaaS, and enterprise ecosystems.
• Design scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable solutions and ensure adherence to standards and best practices.
• Lead modernization, integrations, and technology upgrades while evaluating frameworks and architectural trade-offs.
• Mentor engineers, conduct design and code reviews, and establish engineering quality through testing and CI/CD.
• Be hands-on for complex implementations, debugging, and proofs of concept.
• Identify and reduce technical debt to improve maintainability, performance, and reliability.
• Demonstrate depth in AWS or equivalent, serverless, containers, and infrastructure automation.
• Deliver Java-based enterprise applications with Angular or React, REST APIs, and microservices.
• Work with Oracle or equivalent RDBMS and modern data platforms including NoSQL and data lakes.
• Lead production incident resolution, root cause analysis, and permanent corrective actions.
• Improve observability, resilience, and support processes while balancing support with strategic initiatives.
• Leverage AI tools for code generation, reviews, debugging, test automation, and documentation.
• Translate business requirements into actionable technical solutions and communicate trade-offs to stakeholders.
• Drive Agile delivery with project partners, manage dependencies and risks, and support release planning.
• Foster collaboration across engineering, architecture, operations, and business teams.

Skills

Software architecture

Technical leadership

Full stack delivery

Cloud AWS

Java/Spring Boot

REST APIs

CI/CD

AI-enabled engineering

Stakeholder management

Tools

Jira

ServiceNow

Slack

Microsoft Teams

Job description

Description:

Hybrid 4 days onsite in Culver City, CA

Our client seeks a Senior Technical Lead to drive architecture, engineering leadership, and delivery across full stack, cloud, data, and AI-enabled software engineering. The role requires hands-on depth in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, modern web frameworks, AWS or equivalent clouds, and enterprise databases. The leader will balance new development with complex production support, mentor engineers, institute engineering best practices, and champion AI-assisted development to improve quality, velocity, and reliability.

We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $70.00 to $80.00/hr. w2

JN -112026-109391

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end technical architecture and solution design across cloud, web, SaaS, and enterprise ecosystems.
• Design scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable solutions and ensure adherence to standards and best practices.
• Lead modernization, integrations, and technology upgrades while evaluating frameworks and architectural trade-offs.
• Mentor engineers, conduct design and code reviews, and establish engineering quality through testing and CI/CD.
• Be hands-on for complex implementations, debugging, and proofs of concept.
• Identify and reduce technical debt to improve maintainability, performance, and reliability.
• Demonstrate depth in AWS or equivalent, serverless, containers, and infrastructure automation.
• Deliver Java-based enterprise applications with Angular or React, REST APIs, and microservices.
• Work with Oracle or equivalent RDBMS and modern data platforms including NoSQL and data lakes.
• Lead production incident resolution, root cause analysis, and permanent corrective actions.
• Improve observability, resilience, and support processes while balancing support with strategic initiatives.
• Leverage AI tools for code generation, reviews, debugging, test automation, and documentation.
• Translate business requirements into actionable technical solutions and communicate trade-offs to stakeholders.
• Drive Agile delivery with project partners, manage dependencies and risks, and support release planning.
• Foster collaboration across engineering, architecture, operations, and business teams.

Experience Requirements:

• 12–18 years of progressive software engineering leadership with hands-on full stack delivery.
• Cloud expertise in AWS, Azure, or equivalent, including cloud-native patterns, security, and automation.
• Backend expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and microservices; frontend experience with Angular or React.
• Modern web architectures, REST APIs, integrations, and distributed systems.
• Database expertise with Oracle and SQL; exposure to NoSQL, data lakes, and modern data platforms.
• DevOps practices with Git, CI/CD, containers, and automation.
• AI-enabled engineering using coding assistants, AI-enabled SDLC, and agentic development practices.
• Tools familiarity: Jira, ServiceNow, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and CI/CD platforms.
• Preferred: Media and Entertainment domain exposure across marketing, distribution, metadata, rights, or asset management; experience in GCC environments and large-scale SaaS ecosystems.
• Demonstrated stakeholder management, clear communication, ownership, and delivery governance.