{"id":3993097,"url":"https://alion.io/job/captech-contract-technical-lead-5","title":"Contract Technical Lead","company":{"id":690319,"name":"CapTech","domain":"captechconsulting.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/captechconsulting","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"services","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SmartRecruiters","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":16,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":34,"computed_at":"2026-11-09T06:03:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"contractor","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Richmond, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":80,"max":100,"currency":"USD","period":"hour","gross":null,"usd_annual":200000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Dynatrace","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"Microsoft Entra ID","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-09T18:51:39Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-09","last_verified_at":"2026-11-10T00:16:51Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"CapTech is an award-winning consulting firm that collaborates with clients to achieve what’s possible through the power of technology. At CapTech, we’re passionate about the work we do and the results we achieve for our clients. From the outset, our founders shared a collective passion to create a consultancy centered on strong relationships that would stand the test of time. Today we work alongside clients that include Fortune 100 companies, mid-sized enterprises, and government agencies, a list that spans across the country.\nContract Technical Lead\nWe are seeking a highly technical, hands-on Technical Lead to support a large-scale enterprise migration and modernization initiative on a contractual basis with CapTech. This is a player-coach role for someone who can set technical direction while remaining deeply involved in implementation, design and code reviews, troubleshooting, and day-to-day guidance of engineering teams.\nThe ideal candidate is a senior Java engineer who has progressed into technical leadership or architecture while remaining hands-on, with deep experience across Java, AWS, enterprise integration, APIs, and complex data migrations.\nWhat You'll Do\nLead technical design and implementation for a complex enterprise migration and modernization program.\nRemain hands-on with Java/backend development, making implementation decisions, reviewing code and designs, and unblocking developers.\nDesign and troubleshoot AWS solutions across compute, storage, networking, services, and deployment.\nDefine REST APIs and service architectures, including contracts, versioning, integrations, resilience, and failure handling.\nLead complex data migration and architecture decisions involving relational data, lineage, reconciliation, transformation, and authoritative data sources.\nDesign event-driven solutions using messaging, queues, producer/consumer patterns, and asynchronous workflows.\nIntegrate modern cloud applications with legacy databases, APIs, messaging platforms, files/SFTP, and enterprise adapters.\nDrive CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code practices using Git/GitHub, Harness, Terraform, and related technologies.\nEstablish production-ready observability and support practices, including Dynatrace, logging, monitoring, retries, error handling, and troubleshooting.\nIncorporate enterprise identity and security standards, including Entra ID and role-based access controls.\nTranslate architecture into actionable technical stories and implementation plans.\nMentor engineers, establish development standards, and provide technical direction throughout delivery.\nPartner with business stakeholders to understand operational requirements and appropriately challenge technical or implementation assumptions.\nRequired Qualifications:\n10+ years of software engineering experience, ideally within complex enterprise environments.\nRecent, hands-on experience with Java and backend engineering.\n3-5+ years of AWS architecture/design experience, with the ability to troubleshoot at an implementation level.\nExperience serving as a Technical Lead, Lead Java Engineer, Lead Backend Engineer, Application Architect, or hands-on Solution Architect.\nStrong experience with REST APIs, microservices/service design, and enterprise integration patterns.\nExperience leading or supporting large-scale migrations, application modernization, or legacy transformation programs.\nStrong knowledge of relational databases, data migration, reconciliation, lineage, and system-of-record decisions.\nExperience with event-driven architecture, messaging, and asynchronous systems.\nExperience with Terraform, CI/CD, Git/GitHub, and modern deployment practices.\nExperience with production observability and support, ideally including Dynatrace.\nWorking knowledge of enterprise security and identity, including Entra ID.\nAbility to balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership, mentoring, story decomposition, and stakeholder communication.\nPreferred\nExperience modernizing or migrating complex legacy enterprise systems to AWS.\nBackground working in environments with complicated system integrations, high-volume data, or mission-critical applications.\nExperience within airline, rail, transportation, or similarly complex operational industries.\nExperience supporting systems involving crew, employee records, training, certification, or other operational data.\nWe want everyone at CapTech to be able to envision a lasting and rewarding career here, which is why we offer a variety of career paths based on your skills and passions. You decide where and how you want to develop, and we help get you there with customizable career progression and a comprehensive benefits package to support you along the way.\nLearning & Development - Programs offering certification and tuition support, digital on-demand learning courses, mentorship, and skill development paths\nModern Health -A mental health and well-being platform that provides 1:1 care, group support sessions, and self-serve resources to support employees and their families through life’s ups and downs\nCarrot Fertility -Inclusive fertility and family-forming coverage for all paths to parenthood - including adoption, surrogacy, fertility treatments, pregnancy, and more - and opportunities for employer-sponsored funds to help pay for care\nFringe -A company paid stipend program for personalized lifestyle benefits, allowing employees to choose benefits that matter most to them - ranging from vendors like Netflix, Spotify, and GrubHub to services like student loan repayment, travel, fitness, and more\nEmployee Resource Groups - Employee-led committees that embrace and incorporate diversity and inclusion into our day-to-day operations\nPhilanthropic Partnerships - Opportunities to engage in partnerships and pro-bono projects that support our communities. \n401(k) Matching - Generous matching and no vesting period to help you continue to build financial wellness\nCapTech supports Equal Pay for all. In addition, in the State of Colorado, we are committed to Equal Pay for ALL in accordance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. The base pay range for this role is: $80/hr-100/hr.\nCapTech is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a culture of equality, inclusion and fairness - each foundational to our core values. We strive to create a diverse environment where each employee is encouraged to bring their unique ideas, backgrounds and experiences to the workplace. For more information about our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging efforts, clickHERE.\nAt this time, CapTech cannot transfer nor sponsor a work visa for this position. Applicants must be authorized to work directly for any employer in the United States without visa sponsorship.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6746,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["IT Consulting & Digital Transformation","Management Consulting","Custom Software Development"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-10T00:16:51Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"adverts_offering_sponsorship_24m":0,"sanctioned_now":false,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 2","filings_12m":2,"filings_prev_12m":0,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":157500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-11-09T07:32:21+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":1}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":34,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-10T00:49:27Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":200000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/captech-contract-technical-lead-5","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/captech-contract-technical-lead-5.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-10T00:49:27Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1768,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-11T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":690319},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=690319"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcaptech-contract-technical-lead-5"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fcaptech-contract-technical-lead-5"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fcaptech-contract-technical-lead-5"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/captech-contract-technical-lead-5\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcaptech-contract-technical-lead-5"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3993097}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"captechconsulting.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3993097},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}