Technology Leader

Job Description:

Be a part of our success story. Launch offers talented and motivated people the opportunity to do the best work of their lives in a dynamic and growing company. Through competitive salaries outstanding benefits internal advancement opportunities and recognized community involvement you will have the chance to create a career you can be proud of. Your new trajectory starts here at Launch!

The Role:
Launch is actively seeking a passionate and highly skilled Technology Leader to support our growing portfolio with Microsoft. This individual should possess a rich background in spearheading technology initiatives for organizations in a consulting capacity. In this pivotal role at Launch this individual will be at the forefront of researching and shaping technology roadmaps and offerings across our enterprise technology sector. They will be instrumental in driving sales engineering and client qualification from a technical standpoint taking charge of technical risk management during project delivery crafting robust solutions encompassing a wide spectrum of frameworks and technologies within a dynamic landscape and serving as mentors and advocates within the organization. These responsibilities are extensive and accomplished Technology Leaders will employ their expertise and experience to influence outcomes through effective delegation and leadership. We are in search of a seasoned candidate who possesses a blend of technical prowess and consultative skills. The ideal candidate will have a wellestablished track record as a trusted senior advisor capable of fostering relationships with both customers and internal team members across all organizational levels.

Responsibilities:

• Guide customer conversations generally related to technical solutioning

• Act as a trusted technology advisor to Microsoft stakeholders across engineering product and business teams

• Lead discovery analysis architecture design and development of worldclass solutions across a broad spectrum of technologies and design patterns

• Analyze complex business and technical problems related to the implementation of new technology and/or the customization of existing technologies and processes

• Collaborate with clients and business analysts to translate business requirements into technical requirements

• Estimate work efforts and define resourcing required for each phase of a project

• Develop proposals statements of work technology strategies and roadmaps

• Partner with other technology teams to work with business executives and endusers to conceptualize new projects/programs/products recommend technologies and implementation strategies and architect/design for requirements of the project within financial and timeline guidelines

• Author and/or review architecture/design and other technical documents ensuring highquality deliverables and systems development across tech stacks and applications teams

• Establish and/or apply effective software development practices

• Attend regular project meetings report on progress and setbacks and participate in both planning and retrospective exercises

• Provide programlevel technology leadership with support of peers and/or principal level stakeholders

• Consults with and for peers and solution architects to validate designs provide recommendations for improvement or addressing gaps etc.

• Driving development of case studies whitepapers and other technologyoriented evangelism

• Effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders across all levels and disciplines e.g. from a junior member of an engineering team up to the board of a strategic customer

• Providing technical leadership and consultancy for and in support of other people in the solution architecture discipline.

Required Qualifications:

• 12 years of relevant work experience is preferred

• Deep familiarity with Microsoft technologies and cloud platforms

• Strong understanding of Microsofts internal processes business structure and culture

• Clear and demonstrated extensive experience driving technology strategy on key accounts

• Strong cloud delivery experience including in at least one of the top three public cloud providers AWS Azure GCP; two or more preferred

• Able to drive effective customer conversations across many potential customer profiles especially in at least one of tech finance energy healthcare etc. industries

• Able to develop write and defend business case analyses to justify propositions to clients and partners

• Acumen to understand endtoend strategic business models

• Ability to communicate complex technical and operational solutions or translate complex topics into a simple business language to drive value alignment for technical or nontechnical audiences of varying skillset and seniority

• Ability to selfmanage time and priorities in a complex multiteam matrix environment while maintaining highquality deliverables for oneself as well as your tech teams

• Comfortable actively participating in design and architectural discussions

• Ability to document technical design and approach of software produced

• Work effectively in a fastpaced and constantly changing environment

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills

• Deep experience in at least two of the following technologies/languages/frameworks: .NET Java go Angular React

• A strong and varied technical skillset with the ability to compare and identify the tradeoffs of various technologies

• Proven track record of establishing trusted advisor relationships with customers at all levels

• Experience with architecting/implementing solutions leveraging appropriate technical stack

• Knowledge of code coverage unit/integration tests TDD/BDD

• Knowledge of CI/CD concepts

• Knowledge and experience with version control systems e.g. git or others

• Knowledge and experience with software engineering life cycle and best practices

• Knowledge of Scrum software development methodologies

• Web service and application design experience

• Experience in database design and modeling including relational and nonrelational

• Experience with containerized workloads

• Experience designing for secure infrastructure and applications including topics like Web service security application security code scanning server and/or container security

• Experience in implementing observability and application monitoring topics

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong preference for experience in multicloud design and delivery

• Experience navigating enterprise governance and compliance standards within Microsoft or similar clients

• Comfortable driving both delivery detail and strategic conversations with Clevel stakeholders

• Strong preference for familiarity with capabilities of emerging Generative AI solutions

• Experience in topics like federation single signon platform integration strongly preferred.

• Experience in communicating concepts programs projects to a large nontechnical audience such as a public speaking engagement e.g. community meetup summit company event etc. strongly preferred

• Eventbased architecture strongly preferred Kafka experience is a plus.

• Kubernetes experience

• Experience in a technology evangelist role

• Experience in a startup environment as a technology leader

• Experience in a Fortune 100 environment as a technology leader

• Application monitoring and lifecycle experience strongly preferred

• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD and IaC strongly preferred

• Serverless cloud experience strongly recommended

• Experience with confidential computing is a plus

• Familiarity with Cloud Data Platforms a plus

• Familiarity with AI/ML concepts a plus

Education and Certifications:

• BA/BS Computer Science Computer Engineering or related discipline is preferred.

• Certifications are not mandatory but valuable ones to consider include AWS Azure and GCP cloud certifications particularly those related to roles like Cloud Solution Architect.

Benefits & Compensation:
As an employee at Launch you will grow your skills and experience through a variety of exciting project work (across industries and technologies) with some of the top companies in the world! Our employees receive full benefitsmedical dental vision shortterm disability longterm disability life insurance and matched 401k. We also have an uncapped takewhatyouneed PTO policy. The anticipated base wage range for this role is $190000$230000. Education and experience will be highly considered and we are happy to discuss your wage expectations in more detail throughout our internal interview process.

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