You’re a Technical Lead with advanced expertise in building and directing digital brand experiences across a complex portfolio of clients and projects. As a Technical Lead, you bring experience in creating solutions as well as directing developers on solutions to be implemented.
You regularly drive team camaraderie, bringing empathy to create safe spaces for taking risks and healthy debate. You bring a pragmatic and practical approach, reducing problems/impact across the team. You’re the Technical Lead teams dreams of.
As our next Technical Lead, you will drive project implementation and strategy, working across back-end technologies to advance progressive, responsive, and high-performing website builds. Partnering closely with clients and internal teams, you will review, develop, and implement technical client applications. As part of being the Lead on these initiatives, you are responsible for creating solutions and/or directing developers on the solutions to be implemented.
Although you will not directly manage people, you’ll play a lead role on projects, requiring ongoing development of leadership capabilities. You will actively develop self-awareness capabilities and regularly seek feedback from diverse perspectives, applying feedback to support your growth and development.
This role will ideally be based in the Chicagoland area, but we are open to remote locations across the U.S. and Canada.
Core Responsibilities
- Participate in the implementation, testing, and support of web-based projects.
- Engineer solutions for performance, maintainability, and efficiency, while also creating beautiful end-user experiences.
- Be a primary contributor to the testing process and provide issue fixes as needed.
- Improve solutions to reduce technical debt, optimize applications, and investigate and architect improvements for feature updates.
- Utilize your deep knowledge of the .NET page lifecycle/MVC, including object-oriented programming concepts, browser compatibility considerations, and web performance optimization tools.
- Nurture and mentor new members of the Technology team.
- Successfully lead other developers in developing web solutions.
- Recommend and consult with high-profile clients on projects of varying size/scope.
Power Skills
- Customer Focus: Builds strong customer relationships and solutions.
- Plans & Aligns: Plans and prioritizes to meet commitments and org goals.
- Communicates Effectively: Communicates with clarity, addressing audience needs.
- Self-Development: Proactively seeks L&D opportunities for growth.
- Cultivates Innovation: Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
- Drives Results: Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances.
- Collaborates: Builds partnerships and works collaboratively to meet shared objectives.
- Adaptability: Adapts approach in real-time to meet shifting demands of different situations.
Required Experience
- Development experience in an agency or consultancy (3 years or more)
- Expert in .NET MVC, ASP.NET (7 years or more)
- Expertise with Sitecore (7 years or more)
- Extensive use of other modern CMS systems (WordPress, Drupal, Adobe AEM, or similar) (3 years or more)
- Experience with JavaScript, Node.JS, and frameworks (Vue.JS/React) (7 years or more)
- Experience with HTML5, CSS3 (SASS) (7 years or more)
- Experience with Git (7 years or more)
- An understanding of enterprise software development best practices (7 years or more)
- Experience with SQL Server (3 years or more)
- Broad knowledge of capabilities across different browsers and devices
- Previous work with DevOps tooling and management
- Experience in reviewing and handling complex support issues (7 years or more)
- Experience with headless architectures
*Don’t check all the boxes? We encourage you to apply anyway. We know smarts grow from a breadth of experiences. Don’t disqualify yourself before you have the chance to be considered. We’d love to meet you.
Benefits
- Our comprehensive benefits program includes Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO Health coverage, as well as a health savings account with employer-funded contributions.
- We also offer Dental and Vision insurance. All of our full-time employees are eligible for Life/AD&D insurance and Short/Long Term Disability insurance free of cost, with the option to add additional voluntary coverage if desired.
- One North’s 401(k) plan allows employees to save for retirement through pre- or post-tax contributions along with employer-matched funds for maximized savings potential.
- Our Transportation Benefits enable employees to also make pre-tax contributions to pay for parking and public transit needs.
- We know how important unwinding can be for inspiration, innovation and productivity. Our full-time employees earn 4 weeks of paid time off, in addition to company paid holidays. Employees begin to accrue additional time off once they reach their 3-year and 10-year anniversaries with the business.
- One North also understands how critical it is for parents to bond with their new additions. We provide paid Parental and Primary Caregiver Leave to assist and support employees who experience a new birth, adoption or foster placement of a child.
- We also offer an Employee Perks Program that offers member-only discounts and corporate rates on everything from pizza and the zoo, to movie tickets, car rentals, and hotels.
We reserve the right to pay above or below the base salary range of $113,100-$169,700 based on factors unrelated to sex, race, or any other protected classification.
Additional earnings may be available through incentive programs like annual bonuses, profit sharing, etc.
Please click on the following link to learn more about our full-time internal employment benefits: https://www.teksystems.com/en/careers/benefits.
The expected posting close date is April 21, 2025.
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