Lead Engineer

Lead Engineer

Talent Software Services is in search of a Lead Engineer for a contract position in Reston, VA. The opportunity will be for six months with a strong chance for a long‑term extension. Position Summary: Join our Technology, InfoSec & Infrastructure team in a long‑term temporary remote role, working full‑time EST hours. We seek a professional with strong cloud full‑stack engineering experience, deep knowledge across backend services, data platforms, APIs, and front‑end analytics applications.

Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities

• Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of customer business processes and operations.
• Collaborate with Solutions Architect and other Lead Engineers to evaluate feature requests, provide level‑of‑effort estimates, and contribute to sprint planning.
• Conduct and participate in peer code and design reviews.
• Shape the technical direction, scalability, and reliability of enterprise analytics platforms.
• Design, implement, and maintain resilient cloud‑native data architectures and real‑time telemetry pipelines.
• Build secure, scalable full‑stack solutions spanning backend services, data platforms, and front‑end analytics applications.
• Establish and enforce strong architectural patterns, automation standards, and observability practices.
• Mentor engineers and elevate development standards across cloud, data, and full‑stack domains.
• Partner with product, operations, and security stakeholders to align technical solutions with business priorities.

Qualifications

• 7 years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable, cloud‑native applications, data pipelines, and analytics platforms.
• 3 years of experience developing modern front‑end applications using TypeScript and React.
• Strong hands‑on experience with backend technologies such as Node.js and Python.
• Experience designing and maintaining reliable, scalable data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration pipelines.
• Expertise in developing responsive, secure, and high‑performance user interfaces.
• Experience implementing role‑based access control (RBAC) and secure access patterns.
• Hands‑on experience with real‑time data monitoring and analytics platforms such as Grafana and InfluxDB.
• Strong experience with cloud‑based data stores and query engines.
• Deep expertise in data modeling and transformation within AWS.
• Experience implementing Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions.
• Deep knowledge of AWS services, including Lambda, SNS, SQS, S3, and others.
• Experience provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence.

Preferred

• Exposure to building or operating analytics capabilities within a SaaS platform environment.
• Familiarity with cell‑based architecture patterns.
• Experience designing systems that support tenant‑level data isolation and secure access controls.
• Understanding of platform‑level observability and operational strategies in distributed systems.

If this job is a match for your background, we would be honoured to receive your application! Providing consulting opportunities to TALENTed people since 1987, we offer a host of opportunities, including contract, contract to hire, and permanent placement. Let's talk!