Job Title: Technical Platform Engineering Lead / Software Engineering Manager
Location: Plano, TX Onsite
Duration: 12+ Months - W2 Contract
Technical Platform Engineering Lead to design, build, and scale enterprise-grade platforms that support software applications, shared services, and data services. This role is not a traditional people-manager position; it requires deep hands-on expertise in platform architecture, developer platforms, cloud-native services, and data platforms, with strong technical leadership across multiple engineering teams.
Candidate understands how platforms work end-to-end from application runtime platforms to service orchestration and data platforms and can drive platform strategy, standards, and adoption across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and build enterprise platform foundations supporting:
- Software applications
- Shared software services (APIs, microservices, messaging)
- Data services (pipelines, streaming, analytics platforms)
- Define platform architecture, standards, and reference implementations for app teams.
- Design and govern platform capabilities such as:
- CI/CD pipelines, developer portals, service catalogs
- Observability, reliability, security, and scalability
- Lead technical design of cloud-native platforms (containers, Kubernetes, PaaS, serverless).
- Drive integration patterns between application platforms, service platforms, and data platforms.
- Work closely with product, application, and data teams to enable self-service platform capabilities.
- Establish platform reliability engineering (SRE), performance, and cost-optimization practices.
- Mentor senior engineers and act as technical authority for platform decisions.
- Evaluate tools and technologies for platform evolution and modernization.
Required Skills & Experience
- 12 15+ years of overall experience in platform engineering / software architecture / cloud engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience building platforms for:
- Software applications (runtime platforms, frameworks, APIs)
- Software services (microservices, service mesh, messaging/eventing)
- Data services (data pipelines, streaming platforms, analytics platforms)
- Deep expertise in cloud-native architecture (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform), containers, Kubernetes, and PaaS.
- Strong experience with:
- API platforms, service orchestration, event-driven architectures
- CI/CD, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation)
- Observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and reliability engineering
- Good understanding of data platform architecture (Kafka, Spark, data lakes/warehouses).
- Strong architectural mindset with hands-on implementation experience.
- Ability to influence without formal people-management authority