Technical Delivery Lead

primerica; Duluth (GA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Primerica is seeking a Technical Delivery Lead in Georgia to drive the successful delivery of high-quality application development projects on defined timelines. You will collaborate with Business users, Product Owners, vendors and internal teams to deliver Rep and Client facing software while upholding Primerica's security and SDLC standards.

The role requires strong leadership in project and technical domains, with prior experience guiding teams, managing risks, and ensuring timely delivery

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or Applications/Management of Information Science/Computer science with 2-3 years experience.
• 4+ years of software industry experience as a developer and/or team lead.
• Minimum 2 years in a leadership role.
• Knowledge of latest software development technologies, methodologies, and project management approaches.
• Hands-on experience with agile and waterfall software development methodologies.
• Experience creating work breakdown structures, project plans, release plans, and implementation plans.
• Strong communication skills with internal and external stakeholders.
• PMP, CSM preferred.

Responsibilities

• Receive requirements and ensure sufficient detail for the project.
• Gather and challenge work estimates for realism.
• Create a detailed project/release plan based on estimates.
• Work with developers to devise efficient, scalable solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to developers.
• Address risks, issues, roadblocks, and dependencies.
• Coordinate with shared services and 3rd party teams for APIs and data.
• Keep platforms in sync across teams; escalate timelines as needed.
• Understand system and application architectures and participate in design reviews.
• Ensure compliance with Primerica's SDLC and security policies.

Skills

Team leadership

Agile & Waterfall

Stakeholder communication

Technical acumen

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Applications/CS, 2-3 years experience

Job description

Join Our Team

In 2025, USA Today recognized Primerica as a Top Workplace USA for the fifth year in a row, and Newsweek named Primerica one of America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity for the second consecutive year. In 2024, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution named Primerica as a Top Workplace for the eleventh consecutive year, and Forbes recognized Primerica as one of America's Best Employers for Women for the fifth year in a row. In addition, for the tenth time Primerica has been voted a Best Employer by Gwinnett Magazine. Primerica is a great place to work! Join our team to experience what it's like to work at "one of the best places to work in the metro Atlanta".

About this Position

The Technical Delivery Lead is responsible for the successful delivery of high-quality application development projects on a defined timeline. Technical Delivery Leads work with Business teams, Product Owners, vendors, 3rd parties, Architects, and our internal Application Development teams in order to deliver Rep and Client facing software application projects. Technical Delivery Lead will ensure that all deliverables meet Primerica's security policies and procedures and SDLC artifact requirements.

• This position is only open to candidates located in Georgia. You must reside in the state of Georgia or be willing to relocate to Georgia.
• The salary range for this role $130k - $145K.
• This role is not open to sponsorship.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Duties and Responsibilities

Project Leadership

Work with the business users to receive requirements, review the requirements and ensure that it has the level of detail required for the project.

Gather accurate work estimates from the development team for projects and features and challenge the team, where appropriate, to ensure that estimates are realistic.

Create a detailed Project /Release plan that is based on these work estimates.

Work with the technical developers to come up with efficient scalable solutions for complex or key requirements

This is not a typical PM role, candidates are required to provide technical leadership and guidance to developers.

Project Management

Address internal and external technical risks, issues, roadblocks, and dependencies, even when ownership of such matter lies outside of the App Dev team.

Work with shared services and back-end development teams and/or 3rd party developers to ensure successful delivery of necessary APIs and data.

Drive collaboration across internal platform development teams to ensure that features and implementations for each platform remain in sync.

Escalate appropriately, especially when timelines could be impacted.

Technical Leadership

Understand the systems architecture, application architecture, and integrations of the software applications being developed or enhanced.

Actively engage in software architecture and design reviews meetings and advocate for prioritization of technical debt.

Represent development teams in external status meetings to communicate technical approaches and challenges on behalf of the development team.

Compliance

Be well versed with Primerica's SDLC process.

Ensure that the project teams comply with all security and compliance policies and procedures.

Ensure timely closure of all project activities including vulnerability assessments, load testing, deployment etc.

Ensure proper Hypercare documents are created and lead transition to support

Risk Management

Publish project status report and send out project status communications to internal project stakeholders on a regular cadence.

Manage project scope, risk /issues, and change log.

Escalate challenges that cannot be addressed at the project level to leadership team on a timely basis.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Bachelor's degree or Application Development, Management of Information Science, Computer science experience 2-3 years
• 4+ years of software industry experience as a developer and/or as a team lead
• Minimum 2 years experience of working in a leadership role
• Knowledge of latest software development technologies, methodologies, and project management approaches.
• Hands‑on experience with agile and waterfall software development methodologies.
• Experience creating Work based structures, project plan, release plan, and implementation plans
• Strong communication skills with both internal team members and external business stakeholders.
• Strong initiative to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes
• PMP, CSM preferred
• Strong technical acumen, working knowledge of at least one technical stack and ability to pick up new technologies
• Demonstrates good organizational skills.
• Good Analytical Skills with ability to be detailed oriented.
• Good listener with strong communication skills with both internal and external business stakeholders.
• Proficient in leading project teams providing clear direction on assignments.
• Ability to handle work pressure.
• Ability to delegate tasks and set deadlines.

FLSA status

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