Technical Lead

Hybrid 3 On in Charlotte, NC

The organization seeks a Technical Lead to provide technical direction and architectural leadership for backend platform services, application integrations, and data-driven systems. The role will partner with senior backend engineers, data engineers, product managers, and platform teams to ensure solutions are scalable, reliable, secure, and aligned to long-term platform strategy. The Technical Lead is hands-on, sets technical direction, drives design decisions, and maintains operational ownership.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $80.00 to $75.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve technical architecture for platform services, application integrations, and data pipelines.
• Define reference architectures, integration patterns, and platform standards to guide teams.
• Lead technical design reviews to ensure scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Balance short-term delivery with long-term platform health and sustainability.
• Act as or partner with Product Owner to create epics and stories for execution.
• Perform ad-hoc analysis of incoming features to scope efforts and align technical partners.
• Guide the design of shared backend services and integration layers used across teams.
• Establish best practices for APIs, event-driven architectures, data contracts, and schema evolution.
• Ensure consistent integration patterns across batch and real-time streaming systems.
• Serve as escalation point for complex cross-system integrations.
• Contribute production-quality code in Python and FastAPI using AWS services.
• Design and review systems leveraging AWS Lambda, ECS Fargate, Kafka, AWS Glue, and PySpark.
• Guide data ingestion and transformation using AWS DMS, streaming, and batch pipelines.
• Ensure solutions are observable, testable, and operationally sound.
• Provide leadership for Terraform-based infrastructure as code.
• Define standards for CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and environment management.
• Guide networking, load balancing, service discovery, and scaling decisions.
• Ensure infrastructure and delivery pipelines support safe, repeatable, low-risk releases.
• Participate in on-call rotation and serve as senior escalation during incidents.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Drive improvements in resiliency, monitoring, alerting, and automation.
• Mentor engineers through design guidance, code reviews, and technical coaching.
• Raise engineering quality through standards, documentation, and best practices.
• Partner with Product and TPMs on technical scope, sequencing, and delivery plans.
• Influence teams to make sound technical decisions without direct authority.

Experience Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in backend, platform, or distributed systems engineering.
• Proven experience acting as a technical lead or architecture owner.
• Strong proficiency in Python and cloud-native backend development.
• Deep experience with AWS services and distributed architectures.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience supporting production systems with on-call responsibilities.
• Strong understanding of streaming and batch integration patterns.
• Kafka, AWS Glue, PySpark, and AWS DMS experience.
• FastAPI experience for service development.
• ECS Fargate, AWS Lambda, Route 53, and AWS Load Balancers experience.
• Experience with Amazon Aurora (PostgreSQL) and DynamoDB.
• Data warehousing and analytical modeling concepts (preferred).
• Experience designing platforms, shared services, or internal developer platforms (preferred).
• Familiarity with event-driven, microservices, and API-first architectures (preferred).
• Experience with enterprise application integrations such as ERP, CRM, and SaaS platforms (preferred).
• Amazon Redshift experience (preferred).
• Experience with Qlik for analytics and BI consumption (preferred).

Recruitment Transparency Notice

Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team ( [email protected] , 781-808-2924) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group’s use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.

Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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