Job#: 3026240 Job Description: Technical Lead
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina (Onsite)
Employment Type: Contract
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced, Director-level Technical Coach to drive engineering excellence and productivity across the organization. This role requires a seasoned technologist who has direct experience in software development and now excels at elevating how engineering teams build, test, and ship software. The successful candidate will act as a trusted advisor and mentor to both technical leadership and individual engineering pods, bridging the gap between high-level methodologies and ground-level technical execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Guide development teams through the practical adoption and maturation of test management automation and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline tooling.
- Advise teams on strategic approaches to refactoring, reducing legacy technical debt, and implementing standards that produce resilient code.
- Align productivity methodologies with modern engineering practices such as test-driven development and trunk-based development.
- Transition between coaching individual teams on tactical engineering challenges and advising senior leadership on large-scale technical strategy.
- Design, develop, and deliver training programs, workshops, and playbooks to scale engineering best practices.
- Act as a change agent, building buy-in from engineering teams and overcoming resistance to new tools or methodologies.
Required Qualifications
Experience:- 10+ years of software development, engineering leadership, or technical architecture experience.
- 7+ years of hands-on experience with DevOps concepts.
- 7+ years of hands-on experience with leading and executing test automation frameworks including TDD and BDD.
- Proven track record in a Director-level, Principal, or Senior Coaching capacity within a large-scale enterprise environment.
- Extensive experience implementing strategies to measure, manage, and pay down technical debt at scale.
- Demonstrated ability to design and deliver technical training to large groups and provide one-on-one mentorship.
Technical Skills:- DevOps Tools: GitHub, Jenkins, XL Release, and Ansible Tower.
- Automation Tools: nUnit/xUnit, Selenium, and SonarQube.
- CI/CD pipeline tooling (e.g., Bitbucket, Jenkins, Celestial, Ansible, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions).
- Test Management Automation best practices.
Key Attributes
- Possess communication and interpersonal skills to explain complex technical paradigms to non-technical stakeholders and debate architectural choices with senior engineers.
- Command respect from engineering teams due to an extensive hands-on technical background and firsthand experience with software development friction points.
- Ability to design a multi-year enterprise tooling strategy while also being able to troubleshoot a specific team's workflow bottleneck.
Compensation & Benefits
Pay rate range: $95.00/hr - $95.08/hr. Benefits are available for this position.
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
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