Technical Lead - Engineering and Architecture; Dallas Water Utilities - Civil Service

## Technical Lead
- Engineering and Architecture (Dallas Water Utilities
- Civil Service)
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October 2, 2026 (20 days left to apply):
26-28174
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** Job Summary
** Performs highly technical engineering and architectural lead work, supervises engineers, project coordinators, architects and/or landscape architects in managing projects of engineering, architectural or landscape nature.
** Job Description
**** Overview
* * The Engineering and Architecture Technical Lead provides highly technical supervision of engineers, project coordinators, architects and/or landscape architects in managing projects of engineering, architectural or landscape architectural nature. Leads a team of engineers and architects in the planning, delivery, and operation of highly visible projects. Accountable for the technical quality of deliverables while closely collaborating with other stakeholders to ensure project meets functional and non-functional expectations.

Acts as an interface between the Engineering Team, Architect Team and the City of Dallas Leadership, ensuring capacity and skillsets are aligned to meet ongoing delivery expectations.
** Essential Functions
**** 1.
** Provides accurate development estimates in support of feasibility assessments and planned development activities.
** 2.
** Creates, maintains, reviews and approves designs in collaboration with Architect and Engineer Teams, ensuring alignment to the appropriate codes, principles, industry standards, and best practices of engineering and architecture, taking tradeoffs or alternatives into account.
** 3.
** Manages, leads, and provides technical oversight and expertise over engineering, architectural, or landscape architectural designs and construction contracts for paving, streetscape, alley, drainage, flood control, bridge, sidewalk, erosion control, water, utilities, wastewater, trails, parks, pavilions, facilities, terminals, garages, airfields, buildings and any other infrastructure improvement projects.
** 4.
** Supervises a team of engineers, project coordinators, architects, landscape architects, and senior project managers to complete planning, design, and construction of infrastructure projects.
** 5.
** Applies, implements, and uses engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, surveying, project management principles and technical expertise to support the implementation of capital improvement and public infrastructure projects; participates and supervises the performance of feasibility studies on plan and project implementation.
** 6.
** Develops and reviews engineering, architectural or landscape architectural plans for major City projects; ensures that the proposed infrastructure improvements are of good design quality and that the projects are in compliance with City, State and Federal standards.
** 7.
** Investigates development activities if discrepancies are detected, identifies and resolves technical debt as appropriate, weighing the development efforts against the value returned, and evaluates code to ensure that the projects are properly structured, meet technical and compliance standards.
** 8.
** Manages and guides the bidding process for all assigned construction contracts for team of engineers, project coordinators, architects, landscape architects and/or senior project managers; prepares agenda, factsheet, contract information package for engineering,…