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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:

o coding standards and review expectations

o automated testing strategy (unit/integration/API/regression)

o release readiness criteria and "definition of done"

o 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