IT - Technology Specialist - IT Service, Support and Operations | Big Data - NoSQL | CouchBase

Job Title: Lead Software Engineer
Work Location: Richardson, TX - USA
Vendor Rate: ####/hr
Contract duration (in months): 6 months
Target Start Date: Oct 30,2026

Job Details:

Must Have Skills (Top 3 technical skills only) *




Architecture & Technical Leadership
Define and evolve enterprise-scale cloud and application architectures.
Establish architecture standards, design patterns, security controls, and development best practices.
Drive high-availability, disaster recovery, scalability, and resiliency strategies.
Review solution designs and perform architecture governance.
Full Stack Application Development
Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable web applications.
Build modern responsive front-end applications.
Develop RESTful and event-driven APIs.
Ensure performance optimization, caching, security, and application reliability.
Cloud & Platform Engineering
Design and implement cloud-native solutions in Azure.
Lead containerization initiatives using Docker and Kubernetes (AKS).
Implement infrastructure automation using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
Manage cloud networking, traffic routing, CDN integration, API gateways, and security controls.
Microservices Engineering
Design and develop distributed microservices.
Implement reactive programming patterns.
Build resilient services using:
Spring Boot

Nice to have skills (Top 2 only)
1.Team Leadership
2.Lead and mentor software engineers.
3. Conduct code reviews and design reviews.
4. Establish engineering standards and quality metrics.
5..Collaborate with product, architecture, security, operations, and business stakeholders.
Detailed Job Description:

Minimum years of experience*: 8-10 years

Certifications Needed: No




Top 3 responsibilities you would expect the Subcon to shoulder and execute*:

We are seeking a highly technical and hands-on Lead Software Engineer to drive the design, development, modernization, and operational excellence of large-scale cloud-native platforms. This role will provide technical leadership across application architecture, microservices, cloud infrastructure, integrations, DevOps, observability, resiliency, and security.
The ideal candidate will lead a team of engineers while actively contributing to architecture decisions, code development, cloud deployments, production support, and platform modernization initiatives.

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