Technical Lead, IT​/Tech, Systems Engineer

About You

You’re a Technical Lead with advanced expertise in building and directing digital brand experiences across a complex portfolio of clients and projects. As a Technical Lead, you bring experience in creating solutions as well as directing developers on solutions to be implemented.

You regularly drive team camaraderie, bringing empathy to create safe spaces for taking risks and healthy debate. You bring a pragmatic and practical approach, reducing problems/impact across the team. You’re the Technical Lead teams dreams of.

As our next Technical Lead, you will drive project implementation and strategy, working across back-end technologies to advance progressive, responsive, and high-performing website builds. Partnering closely with clients and internal teams, you will review, develop, and implement technical client applications. As part of being the Lead on these initiatives, you are responsible for creating solutions and/or directing developers on the solutions to be implemented.

Although you will not directly manage people, you’ll play a lead role on projects, requiring ongoing development of leadership capabilities. You will actively develop self‑awareness capabilities and regularly seek feedback from diverse perspectives, applying feedback to support your growth and development.

The Technical Lead will ideally be based in the Chicago area for a light hybrid onsite/remote work model, but we are open to remote locations across the U.S. and Canada.

• Participate in the implementation, testing, and support of web-based projects.
• Engineer solutions for performance, maintainability, and efficiency, while also creating beautiful end‑user experiences.
• Be a primary contributor to the testing process and provide issue fixes as needed.
• Improve solutions to reduce technical debt, optimize applications, and investigate and architect improvements for feature updates.
• Utilize your deep knowledge of the .NET page lifecycle/MVC, including object-oriented programming concepts, browser compatibility considerations, and web performance optimization tools.
• Nurture and mentor new members of the Technology team.
• Successfully lead other developers in developing web solutions.
• Recommend and consult with high‑profile clients on projects of varying size/scope.

• Customer Focus:
  Builds strong customer relationships and solutions.
• Plans & Aligns:
  Plans and prioritizes to meet commitments and org goals.
• Communicates Effectively:
  Communicates with clarity, addressing audience needs.
• Self‑Development:
  Proactively seeks L&D opportunities for growth.
• Cultivates Innovation:
  Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
• Drives Results:
  Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances.
• Collaborates:
  Builds partnerships and works collaboratively to meet shared objectives.
• Adaptability:
  Adapts approach in real‑time to meet shifting demands of different situations.

• Development experience in an agency or consultancy (3 years or more)
• Expert in .NET MVC, ASP.NET (7 years or more)
• Expertise with Sitecore (7 years or more)
• Extensive use of other modern CMS systems (Word Press, Drupal, Adobe AEM, or similar) (3 years or more)
• Experience with JavaScript, Node.
  
  JS, and frameworks (Vue.
  
  JS/React) (7 years or more)
• Experience with HTML5, CSS3 (SASS) (7 years or more)
• Experience with Git (7 years or more)
• An understanding of enterprise software development best practices (7 years or more)
• Experience with SQL Server (3 years or more)
• Broad knowledge of capabilities across different browsers and devices
• Previous work with Dev Ops tooling and management
• Experience in reviewing and handling complex support issues (7 years or more)
• Experience with headless architectures

Don’t check all the boxes? We encourage you to apply anyway. We know smarts grow from a breadth of experiences. Don’t disqualify yourself before you have the chance to be considered. We’d love to meet you.

This is a Permanent position based out of Chicago, IL.

The pay range for this position is $113100.00 - $169700.00/yr.

Additional earnings may be available through incentive…