Contract Technical LeadWe 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.The 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.What You'll DoLead technical design and implementation for a complex enterprise migration and modernization program.Remain hands-on with Java/backend development, making implementation decisions, reviewing code and designs, and unblocking developers.Design and troubleshoot AWS solutions across compute, storage, networking, services, and deployment.Define REST APIs and service architectures, including contracts, versioning, integrations, resilience, and failure handling.Lead complex data migration and architecture decisions involving relational data, lineage, reconciliation, transformation, and authoritative data sources.Design event-driven solutions using messaging, queues, producer/consumer patterns, and asynchronous workflows.Integrate modern cloud applications with legacy databases, APIs, messaging platforms, files/SFTP, and enterprise adapters.Drive CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code practices using Git/GitHub, Harness, Terraform, and related technologies.Establish production-ready observability and support practices, including Dynatrace, logging, monitoring, retries, error handling, and troubleshooting.Incorporate enterprise identity and security standards, including Entra ID and role-based access controls.Translate architecture into actionable technical stories and implementation plans.Mentor engineers, establish development standards, and provide technical direction throughout delivery.Partner with business stakeholders to understand operational requirements and appropriately challenge technical or implementation assumptions.