Technical Lead

Technical Lead at MAXIMUS in Boise, Idaho, United States Job Description We are seeking a Technical Lead to join our team supporting an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) client. The Technical Project Lead will work with/lead a team of data engineers and ETL specialists to build and maintain data pipelines from on-premises to Databricks. This role will require production support and may include overnight and weekend runs of the pipelines as part of an on-call rotation. The role will require hands-on development and troubleshooting skills in a production environment. The Technical Lead will also be responsible for providing SME level technical expertise for optimizing ETL pipelines, performance tuning of queries and mentoring of junior and mid-level team staff. This role is remote and requires an MBI clearance.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Build and design high-level architecture documentation.
• Collaborate with other teams in the organization to define supporting infrastructure and tools needed.
• Learn and analyze new technologies and industry best practices to identify suitability for adoption by the organization.
• Articulate and present the implications of design/architectural decisions, issues and plans to leadership.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Initiate, plan, document, manage and maintain technical projects.
• Lead and guide the work of technical staff and serve as the liaison between business and technical aspects of projects.
• Create, update, and manage high-quality project documentation including executive briefings and reports.
• Develop and maintain project schedule(s).
• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise technical project team members and contractors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
• Lead the team in production and pre-production troubleshooting sessions to identify issues, performance bottlenecks and formulate a strategy to remediate as needed.
• Ensure team delivers all project artifacts as discussed and agreed upon with the IRS client.
• Maintain direct responsibility and ownership in developing and deploying components or complete application functionality using Databricks, Informatica, SQL and other tools.
• Design software components from business requirements in collaboration with other team members.
• Support high level architecture design. Provide technical leadership for developing highly performant, robust and reliable solutions that scale.
• Position is remote within US.

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Job Posting:

JC291592735

Posted On:

May 09, 2026

Updated On:

May 09, 2026