Program Technical Lead

Role Overview

• Lead the programs technical solution.
• Drive architecture and design across data exchange, integration, identity, and deployment layers.
• Make the calls the team needs made, document them, and defend them.
• Lead a distributed team.
• Oversee three integration engineering teams as they rotate overseas, setting the pace for engineers spread across multiple time zones.
• Run the standups that matter, cut the ones that don’t, and keep the team oriented on what ships next.
• Push for velocity and quality.
• Hold engineers accountable to clear, tight deliverables.
• Review code, challenge design choices, and surface weak work before the client does.
• Build, break, learn, and fix.
• Stay hands-on.
• Prototype hard problems, pressure-test the solution from an adversarial angle, and find the failure modes before deployment does this is defense infrastructure, and the adversary is real.
• Apply AI as leverage.
• Use modern AI tooling (Claude, Copilot, Cursor, and similar) to accelerate the team's work.
• Know when to trust the output, when to verify, and how to make AI a force multiplier rather than a crutch.
• Deliver against contractual milestones.
• Translate contractual acceptance criteria into engineering work.
• Own the technical evidence that proves we met the bar.
• Partner with the Program Manager.
• Work shoulder-to-shoulder with the program to convert engineering reality into client-ready commitments.
• Flag risk early and clearly and understand the tradeoffs that come with resourcing to mitigate those risks.
• Engage the client technical exchanges.
• Sit in technical working groups and translate engineering detail into language non-technical decision-makers can act on.
• Grow the engineers.
• Raise the technical bar of the team.
• Mentor through code review, pairing, and direct feedback. Retain the ones worth retaining.

Requirements

• 10
• 15 years building production software, with a substantial portion of that career in hands-on development roles.
• 5+ years leading and growing technical teams, including engineers you did not personally hire.
• Proven track record leading distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones (8+ hours of differential).
• Experience being accountable for the technical solution on milestone-based or outcomes-based contracts with defined acceptance criteria.
• Strong architectural fluency across cloud-native systems, APIs, identity (OAuth, SSO, JWT), and data integration patterns.
• Working knowledge of containerized deployments, CI/CD, and modern SaaS architectures.
• Fluency with AI-assisted development tooling (Claude, Copilot, Cursor, or equivalents) as part of daily engineering practice.
• Ability to read, write, and review code in at least one modern language currently in production use.
• Strong communication skills, including direct engagement with senior client stakeholders.
• Experience working with international clients and demonstrated cross-cultural competence.

Tech Stack

• Cloud

Benefits

• Opportunity to travel internationally, including regular engagement in the Middle East and Gulf region.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Flexible work environment.