Technical Lead (Engineer/Architect)

Technical Lead (Engineer/Architect)

Location: Hybrid (Onsite expected 100% soon)
Citizenship Requirement: United States Citizen
Clearance Requirement: Must be able to obtain Public Trust
Salary Range: $145,000 – $165,000 (commensurate with experience, education, and certifications)
Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), Short/Long Term Disability, Life Insurance, PTO, Paid Holidays

Soft Tech Consulting is seeking a Technical Lead (Engineer/Architect) to lead the operations, maintenance, and cloud migration of critical IT applications for a federal client. This role is a strategic and hands-on leadership position that ensures the stability of legacy systems while enabling seamless transitions to modern platforms.

You will work closely with senior client executives, Agile teams, and technical stakeholders to drive delivery excellence, ensure high system availability, and support modernization efforts.

• Requires a high level of facetime with senior client executives weekly/daily basis.
• Lead the day-to-day operations and maintenance of client's IT applications, ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance.
• Coordinate with stakeholders and Agile teams to manage requirements, plan releases, and address operational needs.
• Oversee and support the cloud migration of existing applications from legacy platforms to AWS.
• Provide technical leadership and troubleshooting support for applications built on WebLogic, ColdFusion, PowerBuilder, Sybase, and other legacy technologies.
• Support and guide delivery across a suite of Tailored Platform applications including ServiceNow, Okta, MuleSoft, Socrata, Box, and Zendesk.
• Drive consistent application of Agile and DevSecOps practices across teams and workflows.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis for critical issues in production.
• Coordinate across technical teams to ensure standardized delivery practices and cross-system integration where needed.
• Provide technical insight and recommendations for improving application operations and infrastructure posture.

• 10+ years in IT project or delivery management roles.
• 6+ years leading Agile-based operations or support teams.
• 3+ years of experience migrating applications to AWS, with working knowledge of services such as EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, etc.
• Ability to foster/build strong relationships with senior-level executives.
• Experience with SQL, Spring, Spring Boot, J2EE, JEE, Tomcat, and Hibernate.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with legacy technologies including ColdFusion, PowerBuilder, Sybase.
• Experience with cloud migration of Sybase databases, including the use of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) to convert stored procedures and database objects to SQL Server standards.
• Working knowledge of DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and tools such as GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, SonarQube, etc., in Operations & Maintenance (O&M) environments.
• Strong problem-solving skills, especially in handling production incidents.
• Experience supporting or managing enterprise platforms such as ServiceNow, Okta, MuleSoft, Socrata, Box, Zendesk is a plus.
• Familiarity with ColdFusion, PowerBuilder, Sybase, and SSMA for database migration.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be able to work independently, with little to no oversight.

Preferred Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (or higher-level AWS certification)
• PMP or PMI-ACP

Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. is a woman and minority-owned business headquartered in Chantilly, VA. With contracts in both the public and private sectors in the DC metro area and across the country, Soft Tech is an organization made up of highly successful and talented Information Technology professionals offering enterprise class solutions for any size organization at great value. Soft Tech’s mission is to help government organizations design, implement, and maintain mission critical Information Technology solutions. By focusing jointly on our employees and our customers, we are able to achieve our mission by providing each and every one of our customers with continuous quality customer support.
 
Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.