Technical Lead (Decision Management Platform)

Salary: $114,400 - 124,800 per year Requirements:

• Extensive experience leading technical design, development, deployment, and support for enterprise transaction-processing platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Java (JDK 8 or later), distributed systems, microservices, REST APIs, gRPC, Kafka, Oracle, and SQL.
• Experience resolving production issues and supporting applications with batch jobs, shell scripts, and Unix commands.
• Experience remediating security vulnerabilities, including work with Checkmarx, XX Duck, and infrastructure fixes.
• Familiarity with certificates and encryption, including JKS, P12, public and private keys, mTLS, and TLS 1.3.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps tools, including Jenkins, PCF, Maven, Git, Bitbucket/Stash, JFrog Artifactory, Docker, and SonarQube; XLR experience is desirable.
• Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk, Chef Habitat, and enterprise monitoring platforms.
• Preferred experience in payments, financial services, fraud detection, or card processing.
• Preferred experience with high-volume systems processing millions of transactions, AI/ML-based fraud detection, and decisioning platforms.
• Experience leading globally distributed engineering teams is preferred.

• Lead architecture, design, and development for our Decision Management Platform and transaction-processing ecosystem.
• Direct and mentor a team of 6–7 software and quality engineers, providing technical guidance and supporting their growth.
• Advance modernization efforts across microservices, APIs, cloud-native applications, and distributed systems.
• Own delivery from requirements analysis through development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Conduct architecture, design, and code reviews to uphold engineering standards and code quality.
• Guide engineering best practices for testing, security remediation, and DevOps, and identify and mitigate project risks.
• Coordinate deployments across development, staging, testing, and production environments.
• Lead response to critical production incidents and performance issues, and strengthen monitoring, observability, and operational reliability.
• Oversee release planning, deployment automation, environment management, and configuration governance.
• Make technical decisions for large-scale enterprise initiatives and collaborate with product, business, operations, and platform teams.

• AI
• BitBucket
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Docker
• Git
• Support
• JFrog
• Java
• Jenkins
• Kafka
• Maven
• Oracle
• REST
• SQL
• Security
• Unix
• gRPC
• microservices
• Cloud Foundry

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We are seeking a Technical Lead for work on a high-volume, real-time transaction-processing platform, partnering with globally distributed teams. The pay range is $55–$60 per hour. We offer medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k); a health savings account; disability, life, and supplemental insurance; paid sick leave where required by law; identity theft protection; pet insurance; wellness programs; an employee assistance program; and career development opportunities. Benefit eligibility and terms may vary by employment status, service length, and work location, and plans may be changed in accordance with applicable law. Cynet Systems Inc., founded in 2010 and headquartered in the Washington, DC metro area, provides technology staffing and workforce solutions to organizations across the United States and Canada. We serve IT, engineering, life sciences, clinical, and professional staffing needs, and are a certified Minority Business Enterprise. Our certifications include ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 Type II.

last updated 42 week of 2026