Department: Technology / Engineering Reports To: CTO Location: Remote
BAM is a dynamic multi-disciplinary firm with leading-edge skills in information technology software development and applied research. Serving government and commercial markets BAM is committed to its customers and to delivering strong leadership sound solutions and innovative thinking.
The Technical Lead plays a critical role in scaling our engineering teams by leading the technical hiring process from within the technology organization. This is a hands-on technical role requiring strong coding skills engineering judgment and a passion for building high-performing teams. The ideal candidate will both lead hiring operations and actively contribute to software development projects during periods of low hiring volume joining Scrum teams to help deliver key features or reduce technical debt.
Responsibilities
Lead the Technical Hiring Process
Review resumes and portfolios to identify top-tier engineering candidates
Collaborate with the Technology Office to design and maintain technical assessments that reflect real-world job requirements
Write test and refine coding challenges take-home exercises and interview questions
Conduct and oversee interviews focused on technical depth problem-solving and team fit
Coordinate closely with HR to provide calibrated compensation input based on candidate experience
Maintain metrics on hiring funnel efficiency and assessment effectiveness (e.g. pass rates time-to-hire)
Workforce Planning & Skills Alignment
Partner with engineering leaders to align hiring priorities with long-term capability needs
Collaborate on skill tree development capability mapping and role definition
Provide insights to inform onboarding internal mobility and engineering growth strategy
Engineering Contribution
During periods of limited hiring activity serve as a contributing member of a Scrum team
Assist with backlog items technical spikes and feature delivery using your engineering expertise
Support cross-team surges in capacity during high-priority development cycles
Qualifications
Proven experience as a software engineer with the ability to write review and debug production-quality code (ideally Angular AWS Containers)
Demonstrated success in technical hiring interviewing or running assessment programs
Strong understanding of software engineering roles career paths and evaluation best practices
Effective communicator with the ability to partner across technical and non-technical functions
Familiarity with Agile development Scrum ceremonies and team collaboration tools
Bonus: Experience with applicant tracking systems and data-driven hiring optimization
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