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The Technical Lead - Software Delivery provides hands-on technical leadership for an enterprise application platform, owning solution design and delivery execution while ensuring engineering quality and consistency across the team. This role is 70% designing and implementing and 30% coaching and mentoring, with accountability for development standards, delivery practices, and overall software quality.

Key Responsibilities

•  Lead solution design and implementation for platform features, integrations, and services
•  Translate business requirements into scalable technical designs and delivery plans
•  Drive the full software development lifecycle: requirements, design, build, test, release, and production support
•  Establish technical direction and ensure alignment to architecture and engineering standards
•  Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex production issues and cross-system integrations
•  Development and maintain enterprise-wide shared services.
•  Ensure operational readiness through observability, runbooks, release validation, and incident learnings
•  Maintain clear and current technical documentation (architecture, operational procedures, engineering practices)

Coaching & Mentoring

•  Coach engineers through pairing, design reviews, and structured feedback to raise technical capability and consistency
•  Enforces engineering practices and quality standards, and ensure adoption through mentorship and accountability
•  Guide work planning practices (estimation, sequencing, risk management) to improve predictability and delivery outcomes
•  Promote a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and ownership
•  Provide performance management feedback with the team.

Quality & Standards Ownership

•  Enforce engineering quality standards including:
  •  coding standards and review expectations
  •  automated testing strategy (unit/integration/API/regression)
  •  release readiness criteria and "definition of done"
  •  effective and efficient pull request management
•  Drive defect prevention practices and continuous improvement using metrics and post-incident learnings
•  Ensure consistent technical decision documentation and transparent engineering communication

Required Platform / Runtime Experience

•  Strong experience building and delivering enterprise applications using Java
•  Configuring and optimizing performance of java web containers
•  Kafka (event streaming concepts, producers/consumers, reliability patterns)
•  Redis (caching strategies, TTLs, data modeling, performance considerations)
•  Strong relational database experience with MySQL (schema design, indexing, transactions, performance tuning)
•  Observability/APM experience (monitoring, tracing, logging, alerting, production diagnostics)
•  Experience designing and building REST APIs
•  Experience with distributed systems / microservice architectures and integration troubleshooting CI/CD and Release Engineering (Required)
•  Experience designing and creating Azure CI/CD pipelines for building, testing, and deploying enterprise applications
•  Familiarity with release management practices including gated approvals, environment promotion, rollback strategy, and deployment validation

Education and Experience

•  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent professional experience
•  7+ years of professional Java development experience
•  3+ years in a technical leadership capacity (technical lead, lead developer, engineering lead), including coaching and mentoring responsibilities
•  Demonstrated success delivering complex projects end-to-end and improving software quality outcomes

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

•  Strong communication skills: able to explain technical concepts and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders
•  Strong prioritization and planning skills across multiple workstreams (features, tech debt, reliability)
•  Comfortable setting standards and holding the bar through coaching and accountability
•  Bias for automation, continuous improvement, and pragmatic delivery