Solution Engineer Lead

Strategic Staffing Solutions is currently looking for a
Solution Engineer Lead , a W2 contract opportunity!!

Duration: 7 months | Role Type: W2 contract with a potential to convert |

Schedule:

Onsite |

Location:

Columbus, OH, 43215

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field. An equivalent combination of education and relevant experience may be considered.
• 10+ years of relevant software development, application engineering, integration, or production-support experience, including demonstrated technical leadership of complex enterprise applications.
• Advanced relational-database and SQL experience, with significant experience in SQL Server/T-SQL, Oracle/SQL, or comparable enterprise database technologies.
• Experience designing, supporting, or troubleshooting data-intensive applications and scheduled processing.
• Experience with application integrations, REST APIs, file exchanges, and data interfaces.
• Experience with at least one enterprise development technology such as C#/.NET or Java.
• Experience with source control, CI/CD, release management, testing, environment promotion, and rollback.
• Experience leading high-severity incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Experience producing technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operating procedures, and support runbooks.
• Ability to provide after-hours production support when business-critical needs require it.

Our client is seeking an experienced, hands-on technical leader to help establish and mature internal application support for its business application portfolio. This role will lead technical support, engineering, reliability, and lifecycle direction for the business application portfolio.

The successful candidate will work at the intersection of software engineering, production support, data processing, system integration, and business operations. This person will help transfer critical application knowledge into a sustainable internal support model, improve monitoring and recovery, address technical debt, and lead enhancements that allow the business to operate and grow with confidence.

This is a technical leadership role rather than a traditional people-management position. The Solution Engineer Lead will provide technical direction to application-support engineers and coordinate effectively with business subject-matter experts, enterprise technology teams, external service providers, and distributed development resources.

The Solution Engineer Lead Business Applications serve as the principal technical owner and escalation point for the application portfolio. The role is primarily responsible for applications supporting Risk and Pricing and Transport, including data-intensive pricing solutions, an enterprise energy-trading and risk-management platform, supporting databases, scheduled processes, interfaces, reports, and related operational tools.

The lead will establish the architecture, engineering, production-support, monitoring, release, documentation, and recovery practices required to support these applications internally.

The position will lead complex incident diagnosis, determine when specialized external support is required, guide technical enhancements, and ensure that knowledge is distributed across the team rather than concentrated with individual subject-matter experts.

The role will also coordinate with packaged-software providers, custom-development partners, market-data services, SaaS platforms, and internal infrastructure, database, security, release, and business teams.

• Become the senior technical owner for the business applications portfolio.
• Develop a working understanding of business-critical processes, operating calendars, peak periods, dependencies, and recovery expectations.
• Define sustainable ownership boundaries across internal support teams, business users, infrastructure teams, database teams, and external service providers.
• Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex incidents, recurring defects, data-quality issues, performance problems, and integration failures.

• Assess the current architecture of data-intensive pricing applications, an enterprise energy-trading and risk-management platform, databases, scheduled processing, interfaces, reports, and supporting tools.
• Establish practical technical standards for maintainability,…