Our client is located in Downtown Houston and looking to add a Technical Lead with architecture experience to their team on a 12 month contract basis. The Technical Lead will be responsible for designing and governing scalable, secure, resilient, and low-latency technology solutions that support Outage to Restoration (OTR) products. This role partners with Product Managers, Engineering Teams, Operations, and Business Stakeholders to deliver exceptional customer and operational experiences while aligning solutions with enterprise architecture standards.
Work arrangement is onsite from Monday to Thursday and remote on Fridays.
The interview process consists of one onsite interview only.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and technical design for OTR applications and integrations.
- Provide technical leadership across product planning, design, development, and delivery.
- Design high-performing, highly available, and resilient cloud-native solutions.
- Establish architecture standards, design patterns, and best practices.
- Support outage event scalability and low-latency customer experiences.
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Scrum Teams, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and AI capabilities to support future business needs.
- Lead architecture reviews and mentor development teams.
- Hands on Development experience
Required Technical Expertise
Front-End Architecture
- Accessibility Standards
- Security and Performance Optimization
Deep expertise in:
Identity & Security
- SSO and MFA
- Token-Based Authentication
- Secure Customer Identity Management
Analytics & Monitoring
- Tag Management and Customer Journey Tracking
- Telemetry and Logging
- Operational Observability
Domain Knowledge
- Outage-to-Restoration business processes
- Customer outage experience and communications
- OMS, GIS, and enterprise integrations
- Incident, Change, and Release Management
Success Profile: The ideal candidate is a technology leader who can:
- Design low-latency, highly scalable platforms.
- Balance business needs, technology strategy, and operational supportability.
- Communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.
- Drive innovation while maintaining reliability, security, and customer focus.