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Tech Lead

Eliassen GroupNew York, NY🇺🇸United StatesPosted 3 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

Advance your career as a Tech Lead with Eliassen Group, driving innovative ad sales modernization and enjoying a competitive hourly rate of $90-$100. This hybrid role in New York City is perfect for a hands-on leader ready to shape architecture, mentor engineers, and deliver high-quality cloud-based solutions. You'll thrive in this position if you enjoy bridging business needs with scalable technical execution and contributing directly to development while leading a talented team.

Quick Overview

Salary
$90 - $100/hr
Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
On Site
Location
New York, NY, United States
Posted
Yesterday
401kAWSLinearCampaign ManagementRecruiting

Job Description

Description:
Hybrid 3-4 days onsite in New York, NY

Our client is seeking a Tech Lead to provide hands-on technical leadership for an Ad Sales Modernization engagement. The role drives architecture decisions, ensures delivery quality, and aligns cross-workstream technical dependencies. It bridges product and execution by translating business requirements into scalable, well-architected solutions while contributing to day-to-day development alongside the team.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $90.00 to $100.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:
  • Own the development of new cloud-based solutions for advertising across linear and digital advertising.
  • Drive architecture designs from whiteboard through implementation, from system-level decisions down to sprint-level story execution.
  • Lead technical sprint planning, backlog refinement, and story decomposition.
  • Remove technical blockers and make timely trade-off decisions.
  • Ensure delivery milestones are met with production-quality outputs.
  • Actively contribute to the codebase, write code, conduct code reviews, and resolve critical bugs.
  • Align technical dependencies across AdTech Modernization and related workstreams.
  • Collaborate with UX on journey skeleton implementation and front-end architecture.
  • Partner with the Program Lead to surface risks early.
  • Mentor and guide engineers on best practices, code quality, and AWS-native patterns.
  • Conduct design reviews and code reviews for critical components.
  • Onboard new team members on tooling, architecture context, and access.
  • Represent the technical perspective in SteerCo and governance forums.
  • Translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
  • Contribute to flash reports and status updates with technical progress and risk callouts.

Experience Requirements:
  • 10+ years of hands-on AWS cloud experience with expertise across compute, storage, data, and serverless services.
  • Proven experience building, modernizing, and launching advertising technology applications within media and entertainment.
  • Ability to drive architecture design through day-to-day development, comfortable at the whiteboard and in the IDE.
  • Hands-on builder mindset with production-quality code contributions.
  • Background in cloud-native architectures and large-scale modernization or migration programs.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity during early program phases, including MVP scoping and data modeling.
  • Ability to lead through influence across distributed teams.
  • Preferred: Local to the Tri-State area.
  • Preferred: Experience building AI-native applications.
  • Preferred: Experience with real-time bidding, ad serving, campaign management, or audience targeting systems.


Recruitment Transparency Notice



Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening and hiring process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (, ) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group's use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients' capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

Eliassen is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and all employment decisions are based on merit, performance, and business needs. Eliassen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual preference or orientation, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), marital status, creed, religion, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, age, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, prohibited criminal record inquiries of applicants and employees, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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