Senior Technical Lead & Cloud-Native Architect

TEKsystems; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 83,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) Retirement Plan

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

HSA

Transportation benefits

Job summary

TEKsystems is seeking a Technical Lead/Application Architect for an onsite, 12-month contract in Torrance, CA. You will provide technical leadership across engineering teams, define architectural direction, and drive cloud-native design using AWS services and modern tooling.

This role demands deep experience with Java/J2EE ecosystems and microservices, plus mentorship of distributed teams. The position emphasizes architecture governance, hands-on development leadership, and collaboration with

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience developing large-scale enterprise applications, distributed systems, and cloud-native backend platforms.
• 3+ years of experience in a technical leadership role or hands-on engineering leadership positions.
• Contribute to application and solution architecture using Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Spring Data, JPA, Hibernate.

Responsibilities

• 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 engineering teams.

Skills

Enterprise apps

Technical leadership

Java/Spring stack

Tools

Kafka

AWS

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Job description

TEKsystems is seeking a Technical Lead/Application Architect for an onsite, 12-month contract in Torrance, CA. You will provide technical leadership across engineering teams, define architectural direction, and drive cloud-native design using AWS services and modern tooling.

This role demands deep experience with Java/J2EE ecosystems and microservices, plus mentorship of distributed teams. The position emphasizes architecture governance, hands-on development leadership, and collaboration with