Product Group Team Lead / Architect

Sourceability•Austin, TX

About The Position

Sourceability is building a new Global Engineering Organization (GEO) to strengthen internal software delivery, improve production ownership, and build long-term engineering capability. We are looking for a hands-on Product Group Team Lead / Architect to own technical direction, architecture, engineering quality, and technical execution for an assigned product group or internal software platform. This role is intended for a senior technical leader who can stay close to code, design, delivery risks, production issues, and engineering quality while also guiding other engineers. This is not a formal people management role. Engineering Managers will own people management, hiring, performance feedback, capacity planning, and team structure. Product / Delivery Managers will own business intake, prioritization, backlog readiness, user communication, and UAT coordination. The Product Group Team Lead / Architect will own technical design, architecture decisions, engineering quality, implementation approach, technical mentoring, and L3 technical escalation for the assigned product group. The right candidate should be comfortable working in a practical, execution-focused environment where systems are business-critical, some platforms are legacy, and engineering ownership is being formalized as part of the new GEO operating model.

Requirements

8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
3+ years of experience as a technical lead, software architect, principal engineer, senior engineer, or similar senior technical role.
Strong hands-on development background with ability to contribute to code, review implementation details, and troubleshoot production issues.
Strong understanding of software architecture, API design, integration patterns, data modeling, system boundaries, scalability, maintainability, and secure design.
Experience designing and supporting business-critical software systems in production.
Ability to lead technical design and implementation planning without requiring formal people management authority.
Experience breaking down complex technical work into practical delivery steps.
Ability to evaluate technical tradeoffs and explain recommendations clearly to engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
Experience improving legacy systems, reducing technical debt, and stabilizing systems while keeping business operations running.
Practical experience with code review, technical documentation, testing practices, CI/CD concepts, and release readiness.
Experience working with Product / Delivery Managers, Engineering Managers, QA, DevOps, DBAs, Infrastructure, Security, and business stakeholders.
Ability to mentor engineers and raise technical quality through practical coaching, not only through architecture documents.
Strong ownership mindset, good judgment, and ability to make practical technical decisions under pressure.
Comfortable working in distributed teams across multiple locations and time zones.

Nice To Haves

Strong experience with .NET / C#, SQL Server, APIs, integrations, and enterprise business applications.
Experience with PHP applications, JavaScript / TypeScript, web application frameworks, and legacy modernization.
Experience with mobile application architecture, Android / iOS development, warehouse applications, or field operations systems.
Familiarity with NLP, computer vision, AI / ML workflows, data labeling, model evaluation, or AI-assisted business tools.
Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
Familiarity with event-driven architecture, message queues, enterprise integration patterns, API gateways, or data pipelines.
Experience with ERP integrations, NetSuite, finance systems, sales / purchasing workflows, warehouse workflows, or B2B transaction platforms.
Understanding of security-by-design principles and practical application security concerns.
Experience in electronic components, technology distribution, supply chain, logistics, manufacturing, e-commerce, or similar B2B environments.
Experience using Azure DevOps, Jira, Git, CI/CD tooling, and technical documentation systems.

Responsibilities

Own the technical direction, architecture, and engineering quality for an assigned product group or internal software platform.
Lead technical design discussions, architecture reviews, work breakdown, implementation planning, and technical sequencing for the assigned product group.
Stay hands-on in code, design, troubleshooting, technical reviews, and production problem solving.
Partner with Product / Delivery Managers to translate business priorities and backlog items into practical technical plans.
Partner with Engineering Managers to identify capacity needs, delivery risks, technical skill gaps, and team-level blockers.
Provide technical estimates, implementation options, dependency analysis, and risk assessment for planned work.
Review critical code changes and enforce code quality, maintainability, testability, documentation, and engineering standards.
Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, technical coaching, and hands-on problem solving.
Own L3 technical escalation for assigned systems, including investigation of complex defects, production issues, and urgent business-impacting problems.
Lead technical root cause analysis after production incidents and define practical remediation actions.
Identify technical debt, architectural weaknesses, single points of failure, and maintainability risks.
Propose pragmatic modernization, refactoring, stabilization, or remediation plans without creating unnecessary disruption to business operations.
Ensure technical decisions are documented clearly enough for future maintenance and knowledge transfer.
Help define release readiness expectations together with QA, DevOps, DBA, Infrastructure, Security, Product / Delivery, and Engineering Management.
Support onboarding of new engineers into the assigned product group by explaining architecture, codebase structure, standards, risks, and system behavior.
Promote consistent engineering practices across GEO while still respecting the practical needs of the assigned product group.