Portal Engineering Lead

Description

We are looking for a Portal Engineering Lead to guide the architecture, delivery, and ongoing improvement of enterprise web portal solutions in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. This role combines hands-on software engineering with technical leadership, requiring strong collaboration across product, architecture, testing, cloud operations, and security teams. The ideal candidate will drive high-quality development practices, accelerate delivery with modern AI-enabled tools, and ensure reliable, secure, and accessible digital experiences.

Responsibilities:
Guide the technical design and hands-on development of portal applications, building backend services and APIs with C# and .NET while shaping modern user interfaces with Angular or React.
Convert business goals into well-defined technical plans, including user stories, solution designs, delivery estimates, and risk mitigation approaches.
Use AI-assisted development tools to speed up prototyping, coding, refactoring, and test creation while confirming accuracy, security, and long-term maintainability.
Establish strong engineering practices through code reviews, branching standards, documentation, and clear quality expectations for completed work.
Work closely with quality engineering partners to define coverage goals and deliver automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, including validation of accessibility standards at WCAG 2.2 Level AA.
Lead continuous improvement efforts by refining application performance, modernizing legacy components, and reducing technical debt in partnership with architecture stakeholders.
Oversee deployment and release execution for Azure-hosted portal enhancements using GitHub-based source control and CI/CD workflows, ensuring dependable delivery from development through production.
Coordinate production support activities by investigating incidents, driving root-cause resolution, improving observability with logging and telemetry, and maintaining runbooks and post-incident follow-up actions.
Provide technical leadership to a distributed engineering team by mentoring developers, organizing work, supporting Scrum activities, and aligning delivery with product and architectural objectives.

Requirements

7+ years of software development experience, including technical leadership on enterprise-scale web applications.
Strong expertise in C# and .NET, including API development, web application frameworks, dependency injection, security practices, and integration patterns.
Solid frontend development experience with JavaScript or TypeScript and frameworks such as React and/or Angular.
Hands-on experience building responsive, component-based user interfaces with a strong understanding of accessibility expectations, including WCAG 2.2 Level AA.
Proven ability to work with CI/CD pipelines, source control workflows, automated testing practices, and cloud-hosted application delivery.
Demonstrated experience using AI-enabled engineering tools to improve development speed while applying sound validation and engineering judgment.
Ability to lead cross-functional collaboration with product, architecture, testing, operations, and security teams in an Agile delivery environment.

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