Technical Lead

About the Role

Is there a Zenika in you?

Let’s talk skills and passion first.

You’re not just managing roadmaps; you’re building an environment where engineers thrive and platforms scale effortlessly. With strong architectural roots and executive clarity, you bridge high-level strategy with pragmatic execution—always staying ahead of emerging tech to inspire high-velocity, high-quality delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Governance

• Serve on the technical leadership team, aligning technology investments, resource allocation, and budget/P&L management with strategic company goals.
• Establish and govern engineering best practices, architectural principles, security compliance frameworks, and CI/CD quality gates across all software initiatives.
• Drive internal engineering productivity initiatives, including evaluating and adopting AI-assisted developer tooling, automated testing standards, and observability frameworks.
• Develop career progression matrices, performance review frameworks, and technical mentorship programs to cultivate and retain top-tier engineering talent.

Architecture, Delivery & Execution

• Oversee end-to-end delivery of complex enterprise web, mobile, and data platforms across multiple concurrent streams.
• Architect resilient, cloud-native (AWS / GCP / Azure) architectures, ensuring fault tolerance, high availability (99.9%+ uptime), and defensive programming against upstream service dependencies.
• Modernize brownfield systems through pragmatic refactoring roadmaps, modular/microservices migrations, and decoupling monolithic backends.
• Drive technical discovery, feasibility studies, buy-versus-build evaluations, and presales/solution architecture for major client or internal initiatives.
• Oversee vendor evaluations, partner platform integrations, API contracts, and financial/payment gateway connections.

Candidate Qualifications

Experience & Background

• Experience: 12+ years of progressive software engineering and system architecture experience, with at least 5+ years in engineering management/executive technical leadership.
• Team Scale: Demonstrated track record leading multi-disciplinary teams (frontend, backend, QA, data, UX, DevOps) of engineers
• Domain Exposure: Proven experience operating within compliance-driven or regulated sectors
• Architecture & Modernization: Hands-on background architecting distributed cloud systems, modernizing legacy/brownfield applications, and integrating complex 3rd-party services and payment/data protocols.

Technical Competencies

• Strong knowledge of modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, TypeScript) and resilient backend design (Node.js, Go, Java, or Python; REST, GraphQL, event-driven architectures).
• Deep understanding of cloud ecosystems (AWS/Azure/GCP, serverless computing, container orchestration via Docker/Kubernetes).
• Strong grasp of DevOps automation, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation), and automated release pipelines.
• Familiarity with enterprise data workflows, geospatial/analytics platforms, or high-throughput transaction systems.

Leadership & Soft Skills

• Exceptional stakeholder management skills with the ability to bridge complex technical trade-offs for non-technical executives and enterprise clients.
• Pragmatic Agile/Scrum delivery mindset, balancing rapid time-to-market with technical debt management and system stability.
• Relevant industry certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect / Cloud Practitioner, PSM / Agile Coach, or equivalent) are preferred.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.