AICC Senior Technical Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (Senior Manager)

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Lead and develop assigned engineers, match people to engagements, allocate work, coach and evaluate staff, and own delivery quality and team culture.
• Lead sprint planning and reviews, agree on readiness and completion criteria, and hand finished work into production.
• Own engagement architecture, solution quality, goals, responsibilities, and technical risk resolution.
• Contribute hands-on engineering on the hardest projects and maintain technical standards.
• Manage business stakeholder relationships, set success measures and clear outcome ownership, and present value cases to executives.
• Create reusable tools, standards, and methods from successful builds.
• Support recruiting, selection, and technical training.
• Measure outcomes including time saved, reduced rework, capacity gained, and faster answers.

Required qualifications

• 8 to 10+ years building or delivering technical work, including 2+ years leading engineers.
• Able to estimate, plan, and run several engagements of different scales at once.
• Clear written and verbal communicator, credible with executive leadership, and able to build trust.
• Able to train and develop staff and contribute to recruiting and hiring.
• Budget- and capacity-aware, with a practice-level focus on reducing costs and hours.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with agentic engineering tools and IDEs such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or similar.
• Full-stack background: React and JavaScript or TypeScript, plus Python frameworks such as FastAPI, Django, or Flask.
• Experience building, shipping, and testing AI solutions involving LLMs and agents.
• Cloud experience with Azure or AWS; container experience with Docker or Kubernetes; CI/CD, testing, and secure development practices.
• Agile and Scrum delivery experience, including sprint planning.
• Depth across multiple technical areas and a track record of mentoring others.
• Comfort with changing priorities and ambiguous problems; able to translate business workflows into working solutions.

Compensation and benefits

• Estimated base salary is USD 165,000–190,000 per year; the posting also lists total estimated compensation of USD 189,750–237,500 including annual incentive opportunity.
• Eligible for annual incentive compensation and benefit plans that include medical, dental, vision, and wellness programs.