Senior Technical Lead - Data & Integrations

About this role

This contract opening exists to drive the technical direction and architectural scalability of our core data integration and product expansion roadmaps. In this role, you will take hands-on technical ownership of our engineering pods, establishing robust governance, optimizing high-throughput ETL pipelines, and tuning database performance. You will be responsible for setting clear system contracts, eliminating single-point-of-failure risks, and maintaining high sprint predictability to ensure our engineering teams deliver reliably at scale.

Apply if you’re excited to

• Architectural Leadership: Define and maintain the long-term technical vision, performance standards, and architectural guardrails for our systems.
• Delivery & Execution: Lead technical scoping, code reviews, and technical design for major streams, balancing rapid feature delivery with technical debt management.
• Team Guidance & Governance: Directly lead and mentor a focused group of software engineers, supporting their career growth and fostering engineering best practices.
• Roadmap & Expansion: Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to scale system integrations and drive the architectural expansion of our initiatives.

About You

• 8+ years of hands-on software development experience, with 2+ years leading engineering pods or acting as a Tech Lead.
• Core Technical Stack (Mandatory): Advanced proficiency in Python, .NET, and C#.
• Proven experience building and maintaining robust ETL pipelines and orchestrating workflows with Apache Airflow.
• Strong expertise in MSSQL and PostgreSQL database design, query optimization, and performance tuning.
• Hands-on experience with core AWS technologies (e.g., S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS) to deploy scalable data architecture.
• Experience conducting architectural reviews, breaking down complex epics, and mentoring engineers to elevate team output.
• Strong ability to balance immediate roadmap delivery against long-term architectural stability, cost efficiency, and scalability.

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Our recruiting process is rooted in “Who

The A Method of Hiring” and consists of an average 2-week hiring timeline. This standardized interview process allows candidates to answer the same questions, experience the same process, and ensure a fair performance review from multiple perspectives.

Please, no external recruiters—candidate profiles submitted from external recruiting agencies will not be considered.