Tech Lead

Eliassen Group; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 257,887,000 - 286,541,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group seeks a Tech Lead for a Hybrid New York engagement. The role combines hands-on development with architectural leadership to deliver ad tech solutions across linear and digital channels.

You will drive architecture decisions, ensure delivery quality, and mentor engineers while collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on AWS cloud experience across compute, storage, data, and serverless services.
• Proven experience building and modernizing advertising technology applications within media/entertainment.
• Ability to drive architecture design through day-to-day development and whiteboard sessions.

Responsibilities

• Own development of cloud-based solutions for advertising across linear and digital channels.
• Drive architecture designs from whiteboard to implementation and sprint-level execution.
• Lead technical sprint planning, backlog refinement, and story decomposition.

Skills

AWS

Architectural design

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Cloud-native

CI/CD

Job description

Description

Hybrid 3-4 days onsite in New York, NY

Our client is seeking a Tech Lead to provide hands-on technical leadership for an Ad Sales Modernization engagement. The role drives architecture decisions, ensures delivery quality, and aligns cross-workstream technical dependencies. It bridges product and execution by translating business requirements into scalable, well-architected solutions while contributing to day-to-day development alongside the team.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $90.00 to $100.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities

• Own the development of new cloud-based solutions for advertising across linear and digital advertising.
• Drive architecture designs from whiteboard through implementation, from system-level decisions down to sprint-level story execution.
• Lead technical sprint planning, backlog refinement, and story decomposition.
• Remove technical blockers and make timely trade-off decisions.
• Ensure delivery milestones are met with production-quality outputs.
• Actively contribute to the codebase, write code, conduct code reviews, and resolve critical bugs.
• Align technical dependencies across AdTech Modernization and related workstreams.
• Collaborate with UX on journey skeleton implementation and front-end architecture.
• Partner with the Program Lead to surface risks early.
• Mentor and guide engineers on best practices, code quality, and AWS-native patterns.
• Conduct design reviews and code reviews for critical components.
• Onboard new team members on tooling, architecture context, and access.
• Represent the technical perspective in SteerCo and governance forums.
• Translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to flash reports and status updates with technical progress and risk callouts.

Experience Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on AWS cloud experience with expertise across compute, storage, data, and serverless services.
• Proven experience building, modernizing, and launching advertising technology applications within media and entertainment.
• Ability to drive architecture design through day-to-day development, comfortable at the whiteboard and in the IDE.
• Hands-on builder mindset with production-quality code contributions.
• Background in cloud-native architectures and large-scale modernization or migration programs.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity during early program phases, including MVP scoping and data modeling.
• Ability to lead through influence across distributed teams.
• Preferred: Local to the Tri-State area.
• Preferred: Experience building AI-native applications.
• Preferred: Experience with real-time bidding, ad serving, campaign management, or audience targeting systems.