Engineering Technical Lead; Senior Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services

Position: Engineering Technical Lead (Senior Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services)
Job Requirements Engineering Tech Lead(Senior Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services)

At Fearless, we are seeking an Engineering Tech Lead as part of our Senior Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services career path to lead the technical design and delivery of a new student-facing web portal for a public-sector education client. This portal will enable students to securely review college admissions offers, compare financial aid packages, and confirm enrollment, while giving agency staff tools to manage admissions data and securely transmit enrollment decisions to participating institutions.

You will own the technical architecture, lead full-stack development using an AI-assisted approach with Type Script, React, and AWS, and ensure the client can independently operate and extend the platform beyond the initial MVP launch targeted for mid-2027. This is a fully remote role with periodic travel to Massachusetts for client working sessions.

Engineering Tech Lead(Senior Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services)

At Fearless, we are seeking an Engineering Tech Lead as part of our Senior Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services career path to lead the technical design and delivery of a new student-facing web portal for a public-sector education client. This portal will enable students to securely review college admissions offers, compare financial aid packages, and confirm enrollment, while giving agency staff tools to manage admissions data and securely transmit enrollment decisions to participating institutions.

You will own the technical architecture, lead full-stack development using an AI-assisted approach with Type Script, React, and AWS, and ensure the client can independently operate and extend the platform beyond the initial MVP launch targeted for mid-2027. This is a fully remote role with periodic travel to Massachusetts for client working sessions.

This at Fearless this Senior Consultant collaborates with cross functional teams to align the technical vision, implementation, and quality of software systems across development, reliability, testing, and operations. This role will possess the skills to be able to bridge business objectives with technical execution in software development, infrastructure, security, and testing at an advanced application level of proficiency. The Sr. Consultant role will work on projects that allow them to ensure scalable, secure, and reliable solutions while mentoring engineers, fostering collaboration, and aligning stakeholders with product and project goals.

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Your Responsibilities In This Role

• Lead the technical design and architecture of a modular, cloud-native web portal on AWS, built to add new services over time.
• Build and lead full-stack development with Type Script/Node, React, PostgreSQL, and REST APIs.
• Define and implement infrastructure as code using Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployments across development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Design and build integrations with government identity platforms using OpenID Connect (OIDC).
• Build integrations for loading, validating, and reprocessing admissions data files.
• Design secure data exchange with colleges through contract-first API, secure file transfer, or CRM integration.
• Lead the team's AI-assisted development practice, using agentic AI tools to accelerate requirements refinement, prototyping, coding, testing, and documentation with human review and traceability.
• Work with stakeholders to translate high-level business needs into detailed technical requirements and build working prototypes for iterative review.
• Build security and privacy into the platform from the start, including Zero Trust API design, token-based authentication, role-based access control, encryption, audit logging, and secrets management.
• Building automated accessibility checks into the pipeline and working closely with design and QA on manual and assistive technology testing
• Plan for high availability, resilience, and scale to support traffic spikes during student enrollment periods.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and scope issues proactively on a fixed-price engagement.
• Produce architecture and operational documentation and train client technical staff to ensure long-term ownership of the solution.
• Contribute to shaping the product roadmap beyond the MVP and participate in client presentations and demos.

Fearless Impact The Impact You Will Create in this Role

• Fosters collaboration with cross functional teams by…