Product Technical Lead; Analytics Platform

Product Technical Lead (Analytics Platform)
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We are looking for a Product Technical Lead to join our Information Technology team, working in Coppell, TX! In this role, you will play a central part in shaping the technical architecture, vision, and implementation strategy for a new enterprise‑scale Analytics product. You'll lead a small team of developers and collaborate with Product Owners, engineers, and cross‑functional team members to deliver a secure, scalable, and reliable platform.

A day in the life of a Product Technical Lead:

At Samaritans Purse, the Gospel really is the center of all we do! We start each day with a time of devotions and spend time praying for each other, our staff and volunteers who serve around the globe.

In the role of Product Technical Lead, you will have the opportunity to:

• Maintain a personal, active relationship with Jesus Christ and serve as a consistent witness to your faith.
• Design, build, and maintain a multi‑tenant SaaS analytics platform.
• Architect an analytics solution that ensures scalability, security, and deliverability.
• Architect data pipelines (ETL/ELT) between other products and the analytics platform.
• Lead, mentor and grow a small team of developers instilling a collaborative, high‑trust and high‑performance team culture.
• Partner closely with the Product Owner to translate user needs into technical plans and engage in trade‑off discussions to deliver maximum value.
• Drive adoption of engineering best practices: automated testing, CI/CD, secure coding, and performance monitoring.
• Contribute hands‑on coding: build complex and foundational components, prototype solutions and help remove technical roadblocks. Implement patterns in the codebase that improve product quality and developer efficiency.
• Collaborate with other Product Technical Leads and the Assistant Director of Product Development to establish shared technical standards, tools, and engineering practices.
• Oversee the integrity and quality of deliverables, ensure code aligns with architecture, performance expectations, manage technical debt, and uphold reliable deployment and support processes.
• Lead retrospectives, monitor engineering metrics, and use data to drive continuous process and operational improvements.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Analytics, or a related field (or equivalent experience), with at least 7 years of experience in software engineering or data platform development. Proven experience leading and mentoring engineering teams, designing scalable analytics or reporting products, and delivering complex, large‑scale software solutions.
• Deep expertise in modern software architecture principles, including microservices, API design, cloud‑native infrastructure, and building scalable high‑performance systems. Strong full‑stack development experience across front‑end, back‑end, and database technologies, with a focus on analytics, reporting, and data‑intensive applications.
• Strong leadership skills with experience guiding and developing engineering teams, while also contributing technically to core components.
• Comfortable working in agile, product‑centered environments; able to pivot as business priorities or requirements evolve.
• Experience building or supporting an enterprise analytics platform.
• Experience with technologies such as Data Warehousing / OLAP Star Rocks, Click House, Snowflake, Redshift or Big Query, ETL / ELT Orchestration Apache Airflow, Data Ingestion & Streaming Kafka and Apache Flink, Containerization & Orchestration Docker or Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code Terraform or Helm, Backend and API Development C#/.NET or Java, Visualization Libraries Chart.js, Recharts or D3.js, BI / Data Visualization - Tableau, Power BI or Looker, Semantic Layers / BI Modeling Cube.js
  
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• 12 credit hours of college‑level Biblical Studies (required)

Type: Full‑Time

Language Requirement: Fluency in English (required)

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Long‑term and Short‑term disability insurance
• Paid Family Medical Leave
• Term Life Insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• 10 paid holidays
• 12 vacation/personal days

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