Technical Launch Lead - Enterprise Customer Deployments

Auger Inc.; Dallas, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Auger Inc. is seeking a leader to own the technical launch plan, defining data access architecture and guiding an engineering pod through go-live. You will coordinate data sources, testing, and cutover with a customer IT organization, balancing architecture and delivery risk.

The role requires 5+ years in engineering, TPM, or engineering management, with strong communication and a proven ability to drive hard launch dates across cross-functional teams while traveling up to 50% of the time.

Qualifications

• 5+ years across engineering, technical program management, or engineering management.
• Track record delivering complex technical programs for enterprise customers across multiple teams you did not manage.
• Fluency in enterprise data and systems integration: APIs, ETL and streaming pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise systems such as ERP, WMS, or TMS.
• Ability to read production code, evaluate technical designs, and hold your own with senior engineers.
• Experience owning a hard launch date across cross-functional teams and an external customer IT organization, including cutover and post-launch support.
• Direct, written communication: plans, decisions, risks, and status that leave no room for interpretation.
• Ability to travel 25-50% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical launch plan: build and defend end-to-end engineering schedule with dependencies, owners, dates, and contingency.
• Define data needs and access architecture with customer IT teams.
• Direct the engineering pod: manage rotating engineers, data engineers, and QA across the account.
• Resolve ambiguity with Product to ensure feasible requirements.
• Oversee end-to-end testing: internal, customer, and platform validation before go-live.
• Drive go/no-go, cutover, escalation and post-launch support.
• Translate between customer IT and Auger engineering as the single technical voice.
• Make hard technical tradeoffs with clear costs and benefits.
• Maintain close attention to detail: review code, designs, and data integrity.
• Close loop with Product and Engineering to improve future launches.

Skills

Technical program management

Engineering management

Software engineering

Data engineering

Job description

Auger Inc. is seeking a leader to own the technical launch plan, defining data access architecture and guiding an engineering pod through go-live. You will coordinate data sources, testing, and cutover with a customer IT organization, balancing architecture and delivery risk.

The role requires 5+ years in engineering, TPM, or engineering management, with strong communication and a proven ability to drive hard launch dates across cross-functional teams while traveling up to 50% of the time.