Technical Program Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Kforce has a client that is seeking a Technical Program Engineer in Charlotte, NC for a hybrid role (4 days a week onsite). This is a 5 month contract to hire opportunity.

Overview:
The Technical Program Engineer role is responsible for facilitating Architectural Governance & Tooling Standards and guiding an enterprise-wide architectural governance group focused on standardizing tooling and technology choices across platform engineering teams. This role ensures consistent, scalable, and secure technical standards by coordinating decision-making processes, developing technical documentation, and driving end-to-end delivery of standards. The Engineer should have strong software development expertise which enables effective technical and architectural governance facilitation, driving alignment among engineering, architecture, and product leadership teams.

Duties:
* Present complex technical concepts to diverse audiences in engineering, security, architecture, and product leadership
* Coordinate with engineering, architecture, DevOps, SRE, and security teams and business segment stakeholders to ensure decisions reflect real-world needs and constraints
* Partner with leaders to drive adoption of approved standards and tooling across the organization
* Support the creation and operation of domain-specific working groups as needed

Create and maintain clear, high-quality technical and architectural documentation, including:
* Architectural Decision Records (ADRs)
* Technical standards and guidelines
* Governance policies and process documentation
* Tooling evaluation summaries and recommendations
* Architecture diagrams
* Git-based, docs-as-code workflows for creating and reviewing documentation

REQUIREMENTS:
* 5-8 years of experience in technical project management, platform engineering, software architecture, software development or related technical leadership roles
* Experience working in platform engineering environments building SaaS or cloud-native solutions
* Strong understanding of tooling and patterns common to modern platform engineering, including CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning, observability, security tooling, and cloud services
* Proven ability to create technical documentation, decision records, architecture summaries, and governance materials
* Excellent facilitation skills-able to guide groups toward decisions, manage conflict, and drive consensus
* Strong technical aptitude with the ability to engage effectively with engineers, architects, and senior leadership
* Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:
* Experience with Architectural Decision Records (ADRs), RFC processes, or technical governance frameworks
* Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform architecture patterns and tooling ecosystems
* Experience standardizing tooling or technical practices across large engineering organizations

Success Indicators:
* Technical standards are widely adopted and reduce fragmentation and tooling sprawl
* High-quality documentation enables transparency and alignment across engineering
* Platform engineering teams report increased clarity and efficiency in selecting and implementing tooling

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

Kforce 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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