AWS Data Platform Team Lead

We are seeking a AWS data platform developer and integration architect to work in a remote role for a client project. This role is W2 with Roth Staffing (Ledgent Technology and Ultimate Staffing are divisions of Roth Staffing). No 3rd party candidates can be considered for this role.

W2 Hourly Rate: $80.00 - $94.37

Duration: 7 Months, could be extended to 1 year, or possibly convert to full time with the client (if you are local to Newport Beach, CA; Charlotte, NC, or Omaha, NE and can work onsite at that point of conversion).

The role is part of a platform transformation initiative focused on modernizing applications and reducing dependence on mainframe systems. The team is currently small and growing, so the organization is seeking a Lead Software Engineer with strong AWS expertise who can provide both technical leadership and hands-on engineering support.

Primary Objectives

• Technical leadership is the top priority.
• Lead the design and implementation of cloud-based solutions and modernization initiatives.
• Interpret architecture and translate it into practical, executable solutions.
• Guide and mentor engineers, helping establish technical standards, best practices, and architectural direction.
• Serve as a senior technical resource who can influence and support multiple disciplines across the team.
• Set the right example for engineering excellence and help the team mature as it grows.

Secondary Objectives

• Contribute hands-on to development efforts when needed.
• Collaborate with cloud, integration, and modernization initiatives.
• Partner with DevOps and infrastructure teams by providing technical guidance and influencing DevOps practices, rather than acting as a dedicated DevOps engineer.
• Support integration, orchestration, and platform engineering efforts.

Desired Background

• Proven experience leading technical teams and functioning as a lead engineer.
• Strong AWS and cloud architecture expertise.
• Ability to mentor developers and drive technical decision-making.
• Experience working across software engineering, cloud, integration, and platform initiatives.
• Domain Expertise Flexibility

The hiring manager is open to candidates with stronger expertise in either:

Data Engineering
Data ingestion, replication, operational data stores, and data quality management.

OR

Integration & Orchestration Engineering
Event-driven architectures, API services, workflows, platform integration, and system connectivity.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Annuity Platform Transformation team is seeking a hands-on Lead Software Engineer to help modernize capabilities surrounding our legacy annuity policy administration platforms, including the design, development, testing, and deployment of AWS-based solutions and the orchestration layer that processes business events, applies routing and transformation rules, coordinates downstream activities, and manages exceptions.

This role requires a strong combination of software engineering, AWS data platform development , Integration architecture , DevOps automation , and Technical leadership . The successful candidate will establish development standards, guide other engineers, conduct code and design reviews, and translate architectural direction into production-ready solutions.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

AWS Data Engineer Technical Leadership

• Serve as the hands-on technical lead for developers assigned to the Transformation team.
• Break architectural designs and product features into implementable engineering components.
• Establish coding, integration, testing, documentation, and deployment standards.
• Lead technical design sessions, code reviews, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Mentor developers in AWS engineering, event-driven architecture, data integration, DevOps, and modern software-development practices.
• Delegate technical work while maintaining accountability for solution quality and integration.
• Identify technical dependencies, delivery risks, capacity constraints, and architectural decisions requiring escalation.
• Develop reusable frameworks and patterns that can be adopted across multiple transformation initiatives.
• Promote automated testing, secure coding, observability, and engineering discipline throughout the development lifecycle.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Eight or more years of professional software-engineering experience, including responsibility for complex enterprise applications or platforms.
• Demonstrated experience serving as a technical lead, lead developer, or senior engineer responsible for guiding other developers.
• At least four years of hands-on AWS development or cloud-platform engineering experience.
• Strong programming experience in Java, Python, or another enterprise development language.
• Experience building APIs, microservices, data-processing services, and event-driven applications.
• Experience with AWS data and integration services, relational databases, NoSQL databases, and object storage.
• Experience designing data-ingestion, replication, transformation, reconciliation, or operational data-processing solutions.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and deploying Infrastructure as Code.
• Working knowledge of cloud security, IAM, encryption, secrets management, networking, logging, and monitoring.
• Experience with automated unit, integration, performance, and deployment testing.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across applications, data pipelines, cloud services, and infrastructure.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions, tradeoffs, risks, and dependencies to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, or military or veteran status. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with state and local laws, including the California Fair Chance Act, City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.