AI-Driven Technical Team Lead

World Wide Technology, Inc.; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 114,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Wellbeing

Profit Sharing

401k with Company Matching

Life and Disability Insurance

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid Time Off

Job summary

World Wide Technology in St. Louis is seeking an experienced IT Team Lead to guide a team of analysts and developers across integrations, full‑stack development, SaaS, and AI. You will operate in a fast‑paced environment, collaborating with stakeholders to deliver diverse solutions.

This leadership role emphasizes mentoring, coaching, and ensuring quality while adopting AI tools to accelerate delivery. You will engage with leadership, vendors, and customers to align with the product strategy and

Qualifications

• Bachelors, Masters or MBA degree preferably in computer science or Management Information Systems; A combination of education, training and experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in software development, including 2+ years leading or technically mentoring a team.
• Minimum of 2-5 years prior experience and passion for managing and developing people to their full potential through coaching, mentoring, and servant leadership
• Technical mindset with a track record of using technical judgment, not just process, to set direction, raise quality, and unblock the team.
• Experience applying AI-assisted development tools (for example Copilot or Claude Code) to improve development speed, code quality, and test coverage, and coaching a team to adopt them.
• Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, and presentation) for both a technical and non‑technical audience
• Strong understanding of Project Management/business process and how technology can enhance and improve these processes preferred
• Demonstrate ability to gather requirements, including problem definition, requirements elicitation, and impact analysis on complex projects spanning multiple stakeholder communities, design and implementation specs, application configuration, workflow configuration, UI configuration, development of reporting, development of requirement integration components, and testing and QA; must be able to coach the team through this process

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and promote WWT Core Values and best practices
• Grow and develop team members through coaching and effective 1 on 1s
• Create and foster mentoring, quality, diversity, collaboration, and improvement by actively coaching your team members
• Work with the team to provide innovative IT solutions to business challenges that align to the product strategy
• Prepare and deliver informal and formal presentations to own team, department, other IT teams, and business partners
• Inspire lasting relationships with Team Members and Leaders; building trust through proven results and added value

Skills

Software development

Team leadership

Mentoring

AI tools experience

Communication skills

Project management

Education

Bachelors/Masters/MBA in CS or MIS

Tools

Copilot or Claude Code

Job description

World Wide Technology in St. Louis is seeking an experienced IT Team Lead to guide a team of analysts and developers across integrations, full‑stack development, SaaS, and AI. You will operate in a fast‑paced environment, collaborating with stakeholders to deliver diverse solutions.

This leadership role emphasizes mentoring, coaching, and ensuring quality while adopting AI tools to accelerate delivery. You will engage with leadership, vendors, and customers to align with the product strategy and