Senior Technical Lead | Onsite - Delaware

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional engineering team to deliver application, cloud, and infrastructure modernization initiatives.
• Translate architect-defined target-state designs and modernization roadmaps into actionable delivery plans, sprint tasks, and implementation standards.
• Assess existing systems for modernization opportunities and provide technical input and recommendations to solution and enterprise architects.
• Analyze existing applications, architectures, codebases, and operational metrics to identify modernization gaps and recommend pragmatic technical solutions (refactoring, replatforming, rearchitecting, or migration), including cost, risk, and effort estimates.
• Drive hands-on delivery of cloud-native, microservices-based, API-driven, and event-driven solutions aligned to approved architecture designs.
• Collaborate with solution architects, product owners, and engineering managers to break down technical requirements into deliverable work items.
• Enforce engineering standards, coding best practices, and architectural guidelines across the SDLC.
• Conduct code reviews, technical design reviews, and proof-of-concepts; recommend practical implementation approaches.
• Mentor and coach developers on cloud technologies, DevOps practices, security, and modernization techniques.
• Implement and champion automation, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), observability, and operational excellence practices.
• Identify, track, and escalate technical risks, delivery blockers, and cross-team dependencies to programme architects and engineering leadership.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years in a technical lead or senior engineer role.
• Hands-on experience delivering application modernization and cloud migration programmes.
• Proficiency in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Strong experience with microservices, APIs, containerization, Kubernetes, and modern integration patterns.
• Practical knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, security practices, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
• Strong communication, team leadership, and problem-solving skills; able to work effectively with architects and product stakeholders.

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with Enterprise Architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) as a consumer.
• Cloud certifications (Associate or Professional level).
• Data and analytics modernization delivery experience.
• Event-driven architecture implementation experience.
• Platform engineering and developer experience (DevEx).
• AI/ML and generative AI feature delivery experience.
• Agile and Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe) exposure.

Experience

• 8-12+ years of overall IT experience.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams in cloud modernization or digital transformation delivery programmes.

Compensation, Benefits and Duration

Minimum Compensation: USD 56,000

Maximum Compensation: USD 196,000

Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.

Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full-time employees.

This position is available for independent contractors

No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post