Technical Architect Team Lead

TEKsystems•New York, NY

2d•$180,000 - $210,000•Remote

About The Position

The Technical Architect Team Lead is a senior, hands-on role that combines deep technical execution with strategic oversight. You will own the architecture and implementation of complex customer solutions while providing mentorship and direction across the Professional Services team. This role requires someone equally comfortable writing and reviewing code as advising executive stakeholders on platform strategy.

Requirements

Must be technically proficient with real hands on coding experience in their career. Cannot be too removed from code to do design or code review
Cloud technology deployment experience is required
Industry experience is a strong preference, ideally with PLM, PIM, ERP, or ecommerce systems, either working directly for a brand or consulting with one

Nice To Haves

Ecommerce, retail or similar field strongly preferred

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end technical architecture for customer implementations, including integrations, complex data flows, and non-standard requirements
Design and support bi-directional integrations with ERP, PLM, PIM, DAM, BI, and other enterprise systems; define API patterns, sync strategies, and error-handling approaches
Lead data onboarding and migration efforts including mapping, transformation, validation, and loading
Act as technical lead on customer engagements, reviewing and validating configurations and code; contribute hands-on when needed
Troubleshoot complex issues across implementation, go-live, and post-launch escalations
Serve as the final escalation point for solution design risk or ambiguity
Advise enterprise customers and executive stakeholders on platform fit, scalability, and future-state architecture
Partner with Sales and Customer Success during high-complexity sales cycles; validate feasibility and support executive-level conversations
Help set appropriate customer expectations around platform capabilities early in the engagement lifecycle
Lead a group of technical resources, developing their skills and capabilities as they become fellow architects
Mentor other Technical Architects and Functional Consultants; elevate solution quality through design reviews and knowledge sharing
Optimize technical design processes, contribute to internal reference architectures, documentation, and reusable delivery assets
Partner with Product and Engineering to surface field insights, inform roadmap prioritization, and evolve our solutioning principles
Drive technical design (about 30 to 40% of time)
Engage directly with customers to understand requirements for integrations, event workflows, and extensions
Architect the solution for non functional technical requirements (how to build an integration, not the actual coding)
Design and code review (majority of remaining time, the core "team lead" function)
Review architecture and code from other technical resources engaged on customer projects
Manage technical resources
Identify skill gaps and develop the team (example: leveling up someone's JavaScript)
Standard people management and mentorship
Resource and backlog management: matching technical resources to active projects based on skill set and project needs (across US and overseas resources)
Improve the solutioning process
Define best practices for common technical patterns (extensions, integrations, event workflows)
Build reusable solution patterns so effort levels out over time