Technical Enterprise Platform Lead
Princeton, Texas, United States of America
Contract
2 hours ago
Key skills
GraphQLgRPCAWSAzureGoogle CloudKubernetesDockerSaaSCI/CDLeadershipStakeholder ManagementProduct ManagementCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Technical Lead - Enterprise Platform
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
End-to-End Delivery & Pod Leadership (40%)
- Own the full delivery lifecycle, from solution design and architecture through development, testing, and production release, for the Enterprise Platform across multiple engineering pods.
- Establish and enforce engineering standards, code review practices, CI/CD pipelines, and release management processes to ensure consistent, high-quality delivery.
- Drive sprint planning, backlog refinement, and technical estimation in partnership with product management; remove blockers and ensure pods maintain delivery velocity.
- Architect scalable, resilient platform components that support workflow integration with enterprise applications, optimizing for performance, reliability, and developer experience.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Management (30%)
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact across product, design, infrastructure, security, and business teams; facilitate alignment on priorities, dependencies, and delivery timelines.
- Translate business requirements and product vision into actionable technical specifications, ensuring clarity for engineering teams and feasibility for stakeholders.
- Lead cross-pod coordination for platform-wide initiatives, managing inter-team dependencies and ensuring cohesive integration across services and workflows.
- Communicate technical strategy, progress, and risk to senior leadership; provide data-driven recommendations on trade-offs and investment priorities.
- Connect business and technology teams to ensure that solution decisions are grounded in real business outcomes and that all teams have shared context on goals and constraints.
Solution Strategy & Platform Excellence (20%)
- Define and evolve the platform's technical architecture and solution roadmap, incorporating emerging capabilities, integration patterns, and enterprise best practices.
- Evaluate and adopt technologies, frameworks, and tooling that improve developer productivity, platform scalability, and operational excellence.
- Establish observability, monitoring, and incident response practices to ensure platform stability and rapid issue resolution.
- Partner with business leaders to ensure the platform roadmap reflects strategic priorities and delivers measurable value to internal users and the broader organization.
Team Development & Engineering Culture (10%)
- Mentor and coach engineers across pods; foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and constructive feedback.
- Lead hiring efforts for engineering talent, participate in interviews, and contribute to onboarding programs that accelerate new team member productivity.
- Champion knowledge-sharing through design reviews, tech talks, and documentation standards.
Required Skill:
• 7+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years in a technical leadership role, ideally in SaaS, enterprise platforms, or developer-focused environments.
• Proven track record of leading end-to-end solution delivery across multiple concurrent workstreams or engineering pods.
• Deep expertise in modern software architecture, microservices, event-driven systems, and API design (REST, GraphQL, gRPC).
• Strong ability to connect business strategy to technology execution, translating stakeholder needs into platform capabilities and measurable outcomes.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD tooling.
• Excellent ability to deconstruct complex problems, prioritize solutions, and execute strategic technical plans aligned with business objectives.
• Outstanding communication skills for articulating solution architecture and delivery status to both engineering teams and executive stakeholders.
• Experience managing cross-functional relationships and driving alignment across product, design, infrastructure, security, and business teams.
Qualifications :
• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of progressive software engineering experience with a demonstrated history of technical leadership and delivery ownership.
• Strong background in building internal tools, developer platforms, or enterprise solutions at scale.
• Track record of delivering complex, multi-team platform initiatives from concept through production.
• Proactive approach to identifying systemic improvements in engineering processes, platform architecture, and cross-team collaboration.
• Excellent communication skills to effectively convey technical concepts, trade-offs, and recommendations to cross-functional teams and senior leadership.