Technical Lead, Software Development, Software Architect

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Job Title

Technical Lead

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Location

Houston - Houston, TX 77032 US (Primary)
Philadelphia - Philadelphia, PA 19106 US

Experienced (Non-Manager)

Category

Information Technology

Job Type

Permanent

Job Description

PSA BDP, a member of the PSA Group, is a leading provider of globally integrated and port-centric supply chain, transportation, and logistics solutions. The company is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, and employs more than 5,500 people worldwide.

We are a team that celebrates our unique diversity and close-knit community atmosphere. Our core values begin at the very top and span the broad reach of our global community.

We offer dynamic careers for those individuals looking to be a part of something bigger and provide unequivocal opportunities for growth within the organization.

PSA BDP serves over 5,000 customers, including some of the world's leading multinational companies within the chemical, retail & consumer, life sciences & pharmaceuticals, and electric vehicle & industrial verticals.

We are seeking an experienced Technical Lead to join our growing, international development organization, based in either our Houston, TX or Philadelphia, PA office. This is a hands-on leadership role at the heart of our logistics software delivery. You will lead a development team building and evolving the platforms that power our global freight and supply chain operations — setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, and partnering with stakeholders across multiple regions and functions.

The ideal candidate is equally comfortable writing and reviewing code and steering a team. You will be expected to critically assess how software has been built in the past, modernize legacy frameworks and patterns, and establish new engineering foundations that enable agile, high-output delivery of features and functions. This position deliberately owns hard technical challenges and demands both strong engineering depth and the soft skills to navigate a complex, matrixed, global stakeholder environment.

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of developers delivering logistics software, setting clear technical standards and fostering a culture of quality and accountability.
• Provide hands‑on technical direction — architecture, design reviews, and code reviews — while remaining actively engaged in development.
• Plan and prioritize the team’s work in an agile delivery model, balancing feature velocity with maintainability and technical debt reduction.
• Partner with product owners, business stakeholders, and other engineering leads to translate requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions.
• Coach and develop engineers through structured feedback, career growth planning, and knowledge‑sharing that raises the capability of the whole team.
• Establish and track meaningful engineering metrics — delivery velocity, quality, and stability — and use them to drive continuous improvement.
• Manage capacity, estimation, and resourcing across FTE and vendor/contractor staff to meet commitments in a distributed delivery model.
• Critically review existing systems, frameworks, and patterns used in the past, and drive the transformation toward modern, maintainable architectures.
• Design and establish new frameworks, tooling, and standards that enable agile, high‑output delivery of features and functions.
• Champion best practices across the full development lifecycle — design, coding, testing, debugging, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.
• Ensure adherence to sound change management, CI/CD, and implementation procedures across the team.
• Introduce and mature automated testing, code quality gates, and peer review practices to reduce defects and rework.
• Define and drive a pragmatic modernization roadmap that retires technical debt without disrupting business‑critical operations.
• Evaluate and adopt new tools, frameworks, and AI‑assisted development practices to accelerate output and elevate engineering quality.

• Own delivery of solutions end to end, from requirements…