Software Engineer Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the technical strategy and execution for platform enhancement, migration, and consolidation programs.
• Own end-to-end delivery: requirements discovery, solution design, implementation, testing, cutover, and post-migration stabilization.
• Set engineering direction through reference architectures, patterns, standards, and guardrails.
• Drive technical decision-making with a bias for measurable outcomes.
• Design solutions to reduce duplication across corporate systems, including consolidation of services, data stores, CI/CD pipelines, and operational tooling.
• Guide modernization efforts such as service decomposition, API standardization, event-driven patterns, and cloud/platform adoption where appropriate.
• Lead integration strategies across identity, access, data, and enterprise applications.
• Define migration approaches (rehost, replatform, refactor) and execute with minimal downtime and risk.
• Create and run cutover plans, including rollback strategies, runbooks, verification checklists, and stakeholder communications.
• Manage data migration planning: mapping, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and retention/compliance considerations.
• Lead a team of engineers (directly or matrixed): provide technical guidance, unblock delivery, and uphold high engineering standards.
• Own code quality practices: design reviews, code reviews, test strategy, and technical documentation.
• Mentor engineers; build a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and operational ownership.
• Ensure production readiness, Partner with security and compliance to implement secure-by-design practices.
• Drive post-launch improvements using operational insights: incident learnings, performance bottlenecks, and customer feedback.
• Partner with Corporate platform teams, product, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, IT, and business stakeholders to align roadmap, scope, and sequencing.
• Translate business goals into technical plans; proactively manage risks, dependencies, and delivery tradeoffs.
• Communicate progress through concise status updates, technical demos, and executive-ready summaries.

Required Skills

• Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (e.g., Java, C#, Python, Go, TypeScript).
• Deep experience building distributed systems: APIs, services, asynchronous processing, caching, and data persistence.
• Experience configuring and customizing SAAS applications.
• Strong SDLC discipline: version control, branching strategies, testing pyramids, and release management.
• Proven success leading large-scale migrations (apps and/or data), including phased rollouts and zero/low-downtime strategies.
• Hands-on experience with legacy modernization and platform consolidation (decommissioning, dependency mapping, migration waves).
• Strong technical writing: architecture docs, ADRs, runbooks, operational readiness checklists.
• Ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across multiple teams.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a lead role (tech lead, staff/lead engineer, or engineering manager with hands-on delivery).
• Demonstrated delivery of enterprise-grade platform initiatives involving migration and/or consolidation with measurable outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading multi-team programs with complex dependencies.
• Experience with enterprise identity and access patterns (SSO, RBAC), data governance, and audit requirements.
• Familiarity with domain-driven design, event-driven architectures, and platform engineering practices.
• Experience with cost optimization and FinOps-style practices in cloud environments.