Technical Lead

Job Title: Technical Lead

Job Location: Plano, TX

Job Type: Contract

Job Overview:

Requirement/Must Have:

• Strong experience with Java and Spring Boot.
• Strong experience with MuleSoft.
• Strong SQL skills.
• Working knowledge of financial services compliance requirements.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2 to 3+ years of experience leading an engineering team and owning technical direction and delivery.
• Hands-on experience writing and reviewing production-quality code.
• Strong experience with microservices architecture and event-driven design patterns.
• Experience designing and building REST and SOAP APIs.
• Practical experience with AWS cloud services.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working in Agile delivery frameworks such as SAFe, Scrum, or Kanban.

Experience:

• Experience delivering complex, cross-functional programs in a large enterprise environment.
• Experience in financial services, automotive, or another regulated industry is preferred.
• Experience leading or playing a central role in legacy modernization, re-platforming, or migration programs.
• Experience with API-first and event-driven integration design.
• Experience contributing to architecture decisions and cloud migration strategies.
• Experience with frontend frameworks such as React or Angular.
• Experience with data integration, ETL/ELT pipelines, and reporting or data warehouse integrations.
• Experience mentoring engineers and driving engineering best practices across teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the engineering team day to day by setting direction, unblocking team members, reviewing work in progress, and maintaining clear visibility into delivery status.
• Take accountability for the team s technical output, ensuring solutions are well-designed, properly tested, and production-ready.
• Run or contribute to sprint ceremonies with a focus on technical readiness and story quality.
• Manage technical dependencies across workstreams, identify risks early, and resolve delivery blockers.
• Communicate delivery status and technical risks clearly to engineering leadership and business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with business and product stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into sound technical solutions.
• Lead the assessment and incremental modernization of legacy platforms, including decomposition of monolithic applications into independently deployable services.
• Define and drive re-platforming strategies to reduce technical debt without disrupting live services.
• Champion API-first and event-driven design patterns as legacy integrations are modernized.
• Support migration of workloads to cloud environments and contribute to architecture decisions.
• Maintain visibility into technical debt and ensure it is addressed in planning.
• Own technical delivery for new product enhancements from design through production release.
• Translate business requirements into detailed technical designs and implementation plans.
• Ensure new capabilities are scalable, well-tested, observable, and operationally documented.
• Contribute to delivery planning and estimation with realistic effort and timeline assessments.
• Work with Security and Compliance teams to ensure solutions meet regulatory requirements including PCI DSS, SOX, and data privacy obligations.
• Lead the technical design and delivery of internal and dealer-facing portal applications.
• Establish frontend architecture standards for portal development, including component structure, state management, and API consumption patterns.
• Provide technical input during product and UX design reviews.
• Ensure accessibility and resilience are treated as core requirements in portal development.
• Design and implement reliable data integration patterns across platforms.
• Work with Data and Analytics teams to ensure platform data is modeled correctly and surfaced through dependable reporting pipelines.
• Lead the build of reconciliation, audit, and financial reporting features with strong accuracy and traceability.
• Drive the development of operational dashboards and internal reporting tools.
• Ensure all data flows comply with enterprise data governance policies and regulatory requirements.
• Set and uphold engineering standards across code quality, testing strategy, API design, CI/CD practices, and observability.
• Conduct code reviews and technical design reviews, providing constructive feedback to engineers.
• Mentor engineers across different experience levels and support their growth.
• Contribute to shared engineering practices and knowledge-sharing across the broader engineering organization.
• Stay current with relevant technologies and industry practices and bring pragmatic improvements into the team.

Should Have:

• Experience with Python for automation, scripting, and data pipeline development.
• Experience with AWS serverless, containerized, and managed service patterns.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, or enterprise-grade databases.
• Experience with MongoDB or key-value/document stores.
• Experience with React or Angular for portal and internal tooling applications.
• Experience with enterprise component-based frontend development.
• Strong understanding of observability, accessibility, and resilient system design.

Skills:

• Java.
• Spring Boot.
• MuleSoft.
• Anypoint Platform.
• DataWeave.
• API-Led Connectivity.
• Microservices Architecture.
• REST APIs.
• SOAP APIs.
• AWS.
• Python.
• SQL.
• Data Modeling.
• PostgreSQL.
• Oracle.
• MongoDB.
• ETL / ELT.
• React / Angular.
• CI/CD.
• Jenkins.
• GitHub Actions.
• Docker.
• Kubernetes.
• Terraform / CloudFormation.
• Agile / SAFe / Scrum / Kanban.
• PCI DSS.
• SOX.
• Data Privacy Compliance.

Qualification and Education:

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.