Technical Lead (Identity and Biometric Solutions)

Our client, a Defence, Aerospace, Cyber and Digital Technology company, is looking for a Technical Lead (Identity and Biometric Solutions) for their Austin, TX/Hybrid location.

Responsibilities:

• Client is looking for a Technical Lead/ Project Design Authority (PDA) within Identity and Biometric Solutions (IBS), with minimal supervision of the Program/Project Leader or Engineering Director, to be the main technical leader to manage Design and implementation of several projects, working closely with teams of engineers and technical staff through the implementation and the deployment of advanced Identity and Biometric solutions.
• In this role, accountable for one or more projects of significant complexity and/or cost that are of high significance to the company. You are responsible for designing and delivering customized solutions that meets the customer requirements in high quality and security standards. In addition, you will support the Project Manager in the organization of the project - project-level scheduling, reporting, and working across various functional groups to accomplish project objectives.
• BIDs and presales:
• Be the primary technical leader for the engineering part of our offers.
• Ensure the feasibility of the solution in term of architecture and technology maturity with respect to the contractual requirements, the consistency of the solution with product policy within target cost, schedule, and customer various constraints.
• Participate in the elaboration of the Work Breakdown Structure to identify work packages and organize engineering activities.
• Approve the main BID/project engineering reviews and deliverables.
• Support Customer demo/workshop in terms of presentation and technical discussions
• Project Technical Leadership:
• Prepare DVa (Design Validation), describing overall solution architecture, technologies choices, customer needs and regulation constraints, standards, including identifying engineering risks and defined mitigation plans.
• Translate the customer needs into functional solution specifications and write the solution level requirements and interface documents.
• Own the overall solution architecture and design, lead the technical choices to comply to required security, performances, environment constraints, cost, and time frame, and in collaboration architects and Work Package Managers (WPM).
• Approve the technical documentation issued by the project engineering team.
• Approve the workload estimations and help optimize timelines while keeping high quality standards.
• Lead the customer workshop, ensure a good understanding of the customer needs to articulate into a clear and concise solution description, leading to precise specifications.
• Lead the interfaces definition between integrated solution components (customer's system, our solution), as well as internal sub-systems.
• Project Team Leadership:
• Organize and lead technical meetings and peer reviews with PMs and Head of Engineering, and other stakeholders, to perform the solution technical assessment and validation of technical choices.
• Accountable for the project engineering delivery, tracking the progress of the several engineering work package with their respective managers.
• Drive the project execution process for the engineering activities.
• Collaborate to confirm the right strategy for the verification and integration of the solution.
• Coordinate the technical Work Packages to ensure consistency for the integration of the solution.
• Prepare and present the engineering steering committees as required to management and/or customer.
• Identify, consolidate, and monitor the technical risks and related action plans (engineering, quality, and security)
• Report the project status, for the engineering scope, to the PM and the Engineering Operation Manager

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field (or foreign equivalent) or equivalent experience.
• Over 8 years of software engineering experience with in-depth knowledge of engineering practices and processes.
• Proven engineering leadership experience with a pragmatic approach to team decision-making.
• Strong technical background, capable of collaborating with architects to design optimal solutions within project constraints.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a talent for leading teams and fostering collaboration to deliver effective solutions.
• Experience managing multiple projects, leading workshops with stakeholders to clarify requirements and project scope, coupled with proficiency in project tracking tools (Confluence, Jira).
• Strong analytical abilities and a logical, pragmatic approach to problem-solving, supporting the team to find cost-effective solutions.
• Self-starter with excellent technical writing skills, capable of influencing both technical and non-technical decisions while accurately estimating and contributing to project technical plans.
• This person is combination of someone who is part of the implementation of the whole solution (Not coding).
• Does not manage anyone directly.
• Indirectly responsible for solutions through working with the teams to provide customer needs.
• Not an architect but should help define solutions
• Not looking for PMs, IT or Infrastructure
• Not a PM, but will assist PMs on the technical aspects
• Will communicate directly and present to customers. Must have strong ability to read/write/speak English
• Ensure solution implementation and process is accurate at customer site.
• Provide estimates and proposed solutions to customer.
• Will write solutions level requirements
• Some leadership experience (project leadership is fine)
• Cloud experience (AWS Cloud is a plus)
• Java & .Net, API, knowledge of databases, Jira/Confluence good experience to have.
• A good combo is development & solutions
• Soft skills are a must. They need to be able to provide strong customer service.

Why Should You Apply?

• Health Benefits
• Referral Program
• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities