Engineering Lead, Systems Engineer

Job#: 3037683

Job Title: Engineering Lead

Location: Raleigh, North Carolina / Charlotte, North Carolina / Atlanta, GA / Richmond, VA - 5x a week on-site

The Engineering Lead provides technical and delivery leadership to ensure the Service-Aware Operating Model is implemented as a coherent, sustainable engineering capability. This role aligns architecture, platform engineering, integration delivery, and data enablement into a unified execution model. The lead is accountable for orchestrating engineering outcomes, resolving tradeoffs, and maintaining alignment to strategic objectives and engineering standards.

• Translate Service-Aware objectives into an actionable engineering roadmap that aligns platform, data, integration, and service visibility work.
• Provide leadership across engineering disciplines to resolve design dependencies, delivery tradeoffs, and sequencing challenges.
• Establish expectations for engineering quality, maintainability, release readiness, and operational supportability.
• Drive disciplined planning, review, and execution practices to improve predictability and reduce implementation risk.
• Engage with leadership and partner teams to maintain visibility into delivery progress, dependencies, risks, and decisions.
• Guide engineering efforts toward outcomes that improve service visibility, governance maturity, reliability, and automation readiness.
• Use delivery lessons, platform feedback, and operational patterns to continuously improve the engineering approach.

• Extensive experience leading engineering teams or complex platform transformation initiatives.
• Strong ability to align architecture, engineering execution, and operational outcomes across multiple technical disciplines.
• Experience establishing delivery discipline, engineering standards, and cross-functional accountability in complex environments.
• Proven ability to lead through ambiguity, prioritize effectively, and drive durable outcomes across interconnected work streams.
• A Bachelor's Degree is preferred.

• Experience supporting service-centric or Service-Aware operating models.
• Familiarity with platform engineering, data architecture, integration delivery, and service visibility capabilities.
• Background in highly regulated, large-scale, or operationally complex environments.
• Relevant leadership, engineering, or architecture certifications.

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.