Team Lead, Software Development - 4

Archer; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer, in collaboration with Infor, seeks a Team Lead to guide a team of engineers delivering an AI-driven data migration and data governance platform. The role blends hands-on technical leadership with people management, setting technical direction, removing blockers, and growing the team’s capabilities while making sound architectural decisions.

You will partner with product managers, architects, and other leads to translate business priorities into a healthy engineering roadmap, driving

Qualifications

• Hands-on Python development and production services experience.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers.
• Experience with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes in production environments.
• Relational/document databases such as PostgreSQL and DocumentDB.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for Python services within the platform.
• Lead architecture discussions and design reviews for services on AWS.
• Guide data modeling across PostgreSQL and DocumentDB.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted and agentic development practices.
• Own delivery timelines and quality for roadmap items.

Skills

Python

Team leadership

AI tooling

Data pipelines

AWS

PostgreSQL

Java

JavaScript

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

DocumentDB

Job description

Archer is collaborating with Infor to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Infor is seeking a Team Lead to guide a team of engineers delivering our AI-driven data migration and data governance platform, with python as the primary development language. This role blends hands‑on technical leadership with people management — you'll set technical direction, remove delivery blockers, and grow your team's capabilities, while staying close enough to the code to make sound architectural calls and unblock hard problems. You'll partner with product managers, architects, and other team leads to translate business priorities into a healthy, well‑executed engineering roadmap, including driving adoption of AI-assisted and agentic development practices across the team.

A Typical Day In The Life Includes

• Set and enforce technical direction for the team's services, built primarily in Python, ensuring alignment with overall platform architecture.
• Lead architecture discussions and design reviews for services deployed via Docker/Kubernetes on AWS.
• Guide data modeling decisions across relational and document stores (PostgreSQL, DocumentDB), balancing team velocity with governance and data quality requirements.
• Drive team-wide adoption of AI-assisted and agentic development tooling, establishing practices for how the team incorporates AI coding assistants and agentic workflows (agent orchestration, tool-use pipelines) into daily development — an area where Python is the dominant ecosystem.
• Own delivery timelines and quality for the team's roadmap items, escalating risks early to product and engineering leadership.
• Partner with product managers to scope work, estimate effort, and sequence priorities.
• Coordinate with adjacent teams (architecture, DevOps, Java-based platform teams) to manage cross-team dependencies.
• Maintain enough hands‑on involvement in the codebase (Python, data pipelines, agent frameworks) to review critical designs and unblock hard technical problems.
• Champion a polyglot approach, ensuring the team can flex into Java/Spring or other languages where existing platform services require it, even though Python is the team's primary language.

Basic Qualifications

• Hands‑on background in Python, including experience building production services, data pipelines, or AI/agent-based tooling.
• Prior experience leading or informally mentoring a team of engineers — technical lead, team lead, or equivalent.
• Experience with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes in production environments. Direct experience building or integrating AI-assisted or agentic development tooling (e.g., Claude Code, Copilot, Kiro , custom agent orchestration frameworks).
• Experience with relational and document-oriented databases (PostgreSQL, DocumentDB or similar).
• Polyglot proficiency — comfortable operating and guiding others across multiple languages (e.g., Python plus Java or JavaScript) as platform needs require.
• Demonstrated ability to balance hands‑on technical work with people‑management responsibilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with agentic pipeline design (orchestrator/agent patterns) for migration, automation, or data workflows.
• Experience with event streaming (Kafka/MSK) and data mesh or ETL architectures.
• Formal people‑management experience (performance reviews, hiring, career development).
• Agile/Scrum leadership experience (Scrum Master or equivalent responsibilities).
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipeline ownership.
• Exposure to Java/Spring Boot for cross-team collaboration on shared platform services.