Senior Tech Lead

About US: We are a company that provides innovative, transformative IT services and solutions. We are passionate about helping our clients achieve their goals and exceed their expectations. We strive to provide the best possible experience for our clients and employees. We are committed to continuous improvement and innovation, and we are always looking for ways to improve our services and solutions. We believe in working collaboratively with our clients and employees to achieve success.

DS Technologies Inc is looking for Senior Tech Lead role for one of our premier clients.

Job Title: Senior Tech Lead Location: NYC, Dallas, TX, and Charlotte, NC- (Hybrid) Position Type: Contract Only W2

Key Responsibilities

We are actively seeking a highly experienced and versatile Senior Technology Lead. We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Technology Lead to drive end-to-end delivery of large-scale, business-critical software solutions for leading global financial institutions. This role offers a unique blend of hands-on technical leadership (60%) and strategic mentorship/client engagement (40%). You will lead cross-functional development teams, architect innovative solutions, build and present Proof-of-Concepts, and champion the adoption of modern technologies including AI/GenAI across risk, audit, and capital markets domains.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

Lead cross-functional development teams in designing, building, and delivering enterprise-scale software platforms for financial services clients

Own end-to-end technical delivery: requirements analysis, architecture design, hands-on development, code reviews, and post-production support

Conduct design reviews, drive architectural decisions, and establish engineering best practices across teams

Design and implement scalable systems using modern patterns (microservices, event-driven architecture, cloud-native design)

Innovation & AI/GenAI Solutions

Build and present Proof-of-Concepts (PoCs) for AI, machine learning, and generative AI solutions tailored to client challenges in risk, audit, and capital markets

Drive the architecture and development of AI/LLM-based solutions and modern data pipelines

Make informed technology decisions (build vs. buy) backed by research and prototyping

Client Engagement & Delivery Excellence

Translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions; engage with financial services executives on technology strategy

Ensure solutions align with client business needs, regulatory requirements, and operational constraints

Balance delivery timelines, quality standards, and team capacity while maintaining a delivery-focused culture

Team Mentorship

Mentor senior engineers and development teams, fostering collaboration, skill development, and best practices

Build reusable components and maintain rigorous documentation standards

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

15+ years of hands-on software development experience with proven expertise across full stack (front-end, back-end, data)

5+ years leading large and mentoring teams through large -scale digital transformations across software, data and AI

Deep expertise in .NET ecosystem (C#, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework/Dapper ORM, SQL Server)

Proficiency in modern front-end frameworks (React, Angular, or Vue), relational databases, and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP), CI/CD SLDC

Strong understanding of event-driven architectures, microservices, caching strategies, and messaging solutions (e.g., Solace, SignalR, Apache Ignite), Cloud migration strategy and architecture patterns

Hands-on experience designing and building AI/ML and GenAI solutions, with ability to architect scalable data pipelines

Domain familiarity with financial services, risk technology, audit, or capital markets operations

Agile expertise: proven experience with Scrum/Kanban, Jira, Confluence, Test Driven Development (TDD, Automated Testing and collaborative development practices

Excellent communication skills: ability to present technical solutions to both technical teams and executive stakeholders

Hands-on knowledge of legacy system analysis and modern platform rewrites

Familiarity with regulatory and compliance requirements in financial services

Flexible work from home options available.