AICC Senior Technical Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (Senior Manager)
Chicago, IL - USA
Job Summary
Huron is redefining what a global consulting organization can be. Advancing new ideas every day to build even stronger clients individuals and communities. Were helping our clients find new ways to drive growth enhance business performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. And were developing strategies and implementing solutions that enable the transformative change they need to own their future.
As a member of the Huron corporate team youll help to evolve our business model to stay ahead of market forces industry trends and client needs. Our accounting finance human resources IT legal marketing and facilities management professionals work collaboratively to support Hurons collective strategies and enable real transformation to produce sustainable business results.
Join our team and create your future.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the team. Independently lead the assigned engineers in the US and Canada window. Match people to engagements with the AICC Lead assign work to fit availability motivation and growth coach and evaluate the team and own its delivery quality its culture and keeping good people.
- Run the work in sprints. Lead sprint planning agree a clear Definition of Ready and Definition of Done with the business and product owners run the review demo and hand the finished work to production.
- Own engagement delivery. Be accountable for the solution end to end: the architecture and its quality meeting the goals set defining who does what and resolving technical risks as they arise.
- Stay hands-on where it counts. On the hardest projects build alongside the engineer and uphold and improve the teams technical standard.
- Own the business relationship. Own the relationship with business stakeholders up to executive level on your engagements. Before a build starts agree what success looks like and how it will be measured. Make sure each team sets one clear priority and names who owns the result afterward. Present the value case to executive leadership.
- Reuse what works. Turn good builds into reusable tools standards and methods the next project starts from.
- Grow the bench. Help recruit and select talent and plan and run technical training across the team.
- Show the value in plain numbers. Measure before and after: hours saved less rework more capacity faster answers.
Preferred Qualifications
- Current and credible with agentic engineering tools and IDEs (Cursor Claude Code Codex or similar).
- Solid full-stack background: React and JavaScript / TypeScript on the front end and Python (FastAPI Django Flask) on the back end.
- Has built and shipped AI solutions (LLMs and agents) into real systems and knows how to test that work so the team can stand behind its quality.
- Cloud (Azure AWS) and containers (Docker Kubernetes) with sound CI/CD testing and secure development practices.
- Agile and Scrum delivery including sprint planning and working in sprints.
- Depth across several technical areas and a track record of mentoring others in them.
- Comfortable in fast-paced changing environments with shifting priorities and unclear problems.
- Senior people trust you. Youll push back on a badly framed problem and defer on what you dont know.
- Can translate business workflows into working solutions.
Required Skills
- 8 to 10 years building or delivering technical work including 2 years leading engineers.
- Comfortable estimating planning and running several engagements of different scale at once.
- Clear writer and speaker who builds trust fast inside a team and is credible presenting to executive leadership.
- Can train and grow Huron staff including the engineers you lead and contribute to recruiting and hiring.
- Aware of budget and capacity with a practice-level eye for where cost and hours can come down on future work.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or equivalent experience.
Flexible living locations across the US with travel as needed.
The estimated base salary for this job is $165000 - $190000 USD. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors including but not limited to specific skills or certifications years of experience market changes and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Hurons annual incentive compensation program which reflects Hurons pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity the total estimated compensation range for this job is $189750 - $237500 USD. The job is also eligible to participate in Hurons benefit plans which include medical dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.
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