Technical Lead - Technology R&D

Signant Health

$120K — $150K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field
  • Proven experience in leading development from scoping to delivery
  • Hands-on experience with AI tools and coding workflows
  • Strong knowledge of AWS or Azure platforms for data strategies
  • Expertise in serverless infrastructure and data platforms like Snowflake or Redshift
  • Advanced skills in ETL/ELT pipeline development
  • CI/CD experience with automated deployment pipelines

Responsibilities

  • Lead sprint development as the embedded technical expert, ensuring a hands-on role rather than purely management
  • Design scalable technical architectures for streaming and batch processing systems
  • Build reusable components and libraries to enhance data product development
  • Conduct POCs on emerging technologies to stay ahead of the industry curve
  • Translate business requirements into actionable features alongside stakeholders
  • Implement new data management initiatives while optimizing existing architectures
  • Develop automated workflows using advanced scheduling tools

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment focused on innovation and teamwork
  • Opportunities to work on cutting-edge AI and data technologies
  • Direct interface with business stakeholders for impactful work
  • Focus on professional growth and development within R&D
  • Dynamic role that combines technical expertise with hands-on engineering responsibilities
Full Job Description
About the Role

As a Technical Lead embedded within Signant Health's R&D group, you will be a hands-on architect and builder - not a manager from the sidelines. You will lead sprint development, guide build teams through complex technical challenges, and serve as the go-to engineering expert on the team. R&D at Signant is actively moving toward coding leaders on build teams, and this role reflects that direction. You will also interface directly with business stakeholders to translate requirements into architecture and deliverables.

A core focus of the entire R&D organization right now is AI agentic development - using AI-assisted and autonomous coding workflows to accelerate delivery. Candidates who bring experience in this space will stand out.

What you will do
  • Lead sprint development and coordinate work streams across teams as the embedded technical expert - this is a hands-on engineering role, not a management-only position
  • Design and develop high-level technical architectures for both streaming and batch processing systems, with a focus on scalability and efficiency
  • Build reusable components, frameworks, and libraries that empower analytical data products and accelerate development velocity
  • Conduct proof-of-concepts (POCs) on emerging technologies and architectural patterns to keep the team ahead of industry trends
  • Collaborate directly with business and technology stakeholders to translate requirements into product features aligned with strategic goals
  • Lead implementation of new data management initiatives and restructure existing data architectures for improved performance
  • Develop complex automated workflows using advanced scheduling tools
  • Proactively identify and resolve data quality and reliability issues before they become operational problems
  • Clean, prepare, and optimize large-scale datasets for ingestion and consumption across platforms
  • Conduct collaborative reviews of designs, code, test plans, and dataset implementations to uphold data engineering standards
  • Analyze and profile data to inform scalable, high-performance solution design
  • Partner closely with product management to break down business requirements into actionable epics and deliverables


Preferred Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent professional experience
  • Strong problem-solving skills with good judgment on when to escalate
  • Collaborative by nature - shares knowledge openly and lifts the team
  • Composed under pressure with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
  • Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to high-quality output
  • Proactive, team-oriented, and energized by building things that matter
  • Hands-on experience integrating AI tools and agentic coding workflows throughout the SDLC
  • Proven track record leading development efforts from initial scoping through product delivery
  • Strong experience with AWS or Azure cloud platforms for enterprise-scale data strategies
  • Experience designing, building, and maintaining a serverless central data platform (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Azure Synapse, or equivalent)
  • Expertise in serverless infrastructure design on cloud platforms
  • Advanced skills working with large datasets for ETL/ELT pipelines
  • CI/CD-first mindset with experience building automated deployment pipelines


Desirable:

  • Snowflake for cloud data warehousing
  • Agentic development and conversational BI tooling
  • Exposure to clinical or healthcare data environments
  • Kafka or similar tools for real-time data streaming


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