Forward Deployed Team Lead
On-site · Chicago, Illinois, United States or Houston, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Forward Deployed Team Leads are senior technical leads who own a commercial or enterprise customer end-to-end. You’ll combine strong technical architecture, hands-on coding, product ownership, project management, and stakeholder communication—embedding directly with customers to take our product from design to production. You’ll own one account at a time: scope the workflow with business and technical stakeholders, design the architecture, write production code, and drive deployment through to measurable business value. Responsibilities include technical architecture of data flow and deployment, hands-on coding of backend services and data pipelines, product ownership of deployment roadmap, project management with milestones and risk tracking, stakeholder communications with executive sponsors, and deploying from development through UAT into production with integrations to customer data warehouses and ERP/CRM systems. Enterprise readiness, security/compliance, field-to-core platform feedback, and account growth/value realization are also key aspects. Qualifications emphasize formal STEM degrees, extensive production software shipping experience, leadership experience, and hands-on expertise across modern tech stacks and enterprise environments.
Required Qualifications
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years shipping production software
- 2+ years as a tech lead or senior individual contributor
- Strong proficiency in Python, TypeScript/Java/Go/C++, JavaScript
- Experience with data warehouses and ERP/CRM platforms
- CI/CD, containerization, cloud-native services, infrastructure-as-code
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