Technical Lead: Remote Modernization & AI Solutions

System One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Job summary

System One is seeking a Technical Lead for a contract-to-hire role in McLean, VA. The position is 99% remote, but the team is encouraged to meet in person in the Washington DC metro area.

You will provide hands-on technical leadership for a development team, guide architecture and coding standards, and drive modernization efforts across platforms and services using Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#/.NET, and Go.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership for a development team, establishing implementation direction, engineering standards, delivery priorities, and clear accountability for technical outcomes.
• Lead solution design, technical discovery, estimation, work decomposition, and implementation planning for complex modernization features and releases.
• Conduct architecture, design, and code reviews; enforce secure coding, testing, documentation, and maintainability standards; and ensure timely remediation of technical debt and quality issues.
• Mentor developers through pairing, technical coaching, constructive review feedback, reusable patterns, and knowledge sharing that improves team capability and consistency.
• Identify and communicate technical risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and escalation needs; coordinate resolution across architecture, security, data, DevSecOps, vendor, and product teams.
• Develop interoperability between legacy applications, modern services, vendor platforms, and analytics capabilities using synchronous APIs, asynchronous messaging, events, batch processing, and change-data patterns.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Architecture reviews

Tools

Python

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

C#/.NET

Go

Job description

System One is seeking a Technical Lead for a contract-to-hire role in McLean, VA. The position is 99% remote, but the team is encouraged to meet in person in the Washington DC metro area.

You will provide hands-on technical leadership for a development team, guide architecture and coding standards, and drive modernization efforts across platforms and services using Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#/.NET, and Go.