Technical Engagement Lead - Manager | Growth and Transformation

Red Ventures•Charlotte, NC

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

Red Ventures Growth and Transformation partners with financial institutions to build digital products, customer platforms, and marketing technology solutions that drive acquisition, deepening, and retention. As a Technical Engagement Lead - Manager, you will serve as the hands-on technical leader for client engagements, guiding architecture, delivery, and engineering execution while managing a team of engineers. You will stay close to the code, partner with client technology stakeholders, and translate business priorities into scalable, secure, production-ready solutions in regulated environments. This role blends engineering leadership, solution architecture, and delivery ownership, requiring someone who can move fluidly between technical design, client communication, and day-to-day execution. Curious how Growth and Transformation fits into Red Ventures? Click here.

Requirements

5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years managing or tech-leading engineering teams in client-facing or cross-functional delivery environments.
Demonstrated hands-on experience building and delivering modern web applications and services using technologies such as React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, or similar frameworks.
Strong understanding of cloud platforms and modern engineering practices, including CI/CD, observability, automated testing, and infrastructure-aware application design.
Experience designing and delivering integrations across APIs, third-party platforms, customer data systems, and enterprise applications.
Track record of scoping and estimating technical work from business requirements.
Clear client-facing communication skills, with the ability to explain tradeoffs, risks, and technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience working in Agile delivery environments with cross-functional partners across product, program management, data, design, and business teams.
Experience operating in environments with strong security, privacy, compliance, or governance requirements; financial-services or other regulated-industry experience preferred.
Strong judgment in balancing speed, scalability, maintainability, and delivery risk.
Personal commitment to being a reliable, collaborative, and high-trust teammate and manager.

Nice To Haves

Experience in consulting, agency, or embedded delivery models serving financial-services clients.
Familiarity with customer data, identity, consent, privacy, and secure data-handling patterns in regulated environments.
Experience with martech and customer platforms such as CMS, CRM, CDP, analytics, experimentation, personalization, and tag management systems.
Familiarity with data pipelines, warehouse technologies, ETL workflows, or event-driven architectures.
Experience contributing to statements of work, technical solutioning, estimation, or pre-sales support for follow-on phases of work.
Contributions to developer tooling, internal platforms, or engineering process improvements.
Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering workflows or practical applications of generative AI in delivery, automation, or personalization.

Responsibilities

Manage and develop a team of 3-6 engineers, providing day-to-day technical leadership, coaching, and performance feedback on a client engagement.
Lead technical discovery, solution design, and architecture decisions from kickoff through launch and optimization.
Own technical execution for the engagement — staying close to the code through PR reviews, implementation guidance, and deployment oversight while setting engineering standards, code quality gates, and production support practices.
Translate business goals and product requirements into technical plans with clear scope, estimates, milestones, dependencies, and tradeoffs.
Partner with project or program leadership to manage staffing plans, delivery risk, timelines, and technical forecasting, maintaining a predictable delivery cadence.
Serve as the primary technical counterpart to client engineering, architecture, security, and platform stakeholders.
Guide integrations across internal and client systems, including APIs, shared services, third-party platforms, customer data flows, and enterprise tooling.
Ensure solutions meet security, privacy, compliance, and governance requirements appropriate for regulated financial-services environments.
Present architecture decisions, progress, risks, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior client audiences.
Identify technical debt, platform risk, and reliability gaps, and advocate for the right balance between feature velocity and long-term platform health.

Benefits

Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
Life Insurance
Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
Flexible Spending Accounts
Paid Time Off
Holiday Pay
401(k) with match
Employee Assistance Program
Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program
Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): We believe time to rest and recharge is essential. That’s why we offer a generous and flexible PTO policy. Full-time employees accrue 20 days of PTO for a full calendar year annually, with an increase to 25 days after five years of service.