Job Description
Greetings from WB Solutions!!!! We have the Urgent requirement for a Technical Lead - Enterprise Technology in Plano, TX for a long-term contract. Role: Technical Lead - Enterprise Technology Location: Plano , TX ABOUT THE ROLE Client is one of the largest automotive captive finance companies in the United States, supporting millions of Toyota and Lexus customers and dealers through financing, leasing, insurance, and connected vehicle products. Our technology teams are in the middle of a significant multi-year transformation modernising legacy platforms, building new digital capabilities, and continuously raising the bar on how engineering is done across the organisation. We are looking for a Technical Lead to join our Enterprise Technology division and take clear ownership of engineering delivery across a cross-functional team. This is a leadership role in the fullest sense you will be accountable for the technical direction, quality, and output of the team while remaining hands-on with code. The work spans legacy modernisation, new feature development, portal and application builds, and data and reporting capabilities. You will work closely with product stakeholders (Internal) to understand requirements and translate them into sound technical solutions, but your primary focus is on leading your engineers and ensuring the team delivers with consistency and confidence. If you are someone who takes pride in the work your team produces, invests in the people around you, and thrives when there is real complexity to navigate, this role is worth a close look. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Team Leadership & Delivery Lead the engineering team day to day setting direction, unblocking individuals, reviewing work in progress, and maintaining a clear picture of where delivery stands at any point. Take accountability for the team's technical output, ensuring that what gets built is well-designed, properly tested, and fit for a production environment that serves a significant customer base. Run or contribute to sprint ceremonies with a focus on technical readiness making sure the team goes into each sprint with stories that are well understood, appropriately broken down, and technically sound before work begins. Manage technical dependencies across workstreams, identifying risks early and working across teams to resolve them before they become delivery blockers. Communicate delivery status and technical risks clearly to engineering leadership and business stakeholders, giving an honest and accurate picture at all times. Collaborate with business and product stakeholders to understand requirements, challenge assumptions where needed, and ensure the team is always building the right thing in the right way. Legacy Modernisation Lead the assessment and incremental modernisation of legacy platforms, including decomposing monolithic applications into well-defined, independently deployable services. Define and drive re-platforming strategies that allow the organisation to retire technical debt progressively without disrupting live customer and dealer-facing services. Champion API-first and event-driven design patterns as legacy point-to-point integrations are replaced over time. Manage the migration of applicable workloads to cloud environments, contributing to architecture decisions and working with infrastructure teams to execute safely. Maintain a clear and current view of technical debt across the platforms you own quantifying it, communicating it, and making sure it is treated as a first-class concern in planning conversations. New Enhancements & Feature Delivery Own technical delivery end to end for new product enhancements from initial design through to production release across TFS's platform portfolio spanning customer channels, dealer integrations, and back-office financial systems. Translate business requirements into detailed technical designs, making architecture and implementation decisions that the team can build from with confidence. Ensure new capabilities are engineered to scale, with appropriate test coverage, observability, and operational documentation in place before anything goes live. Contribute to delivery planning and estimation, providing realistic and well-reasoned views of effort and timelines. Work with Security and Compliance teams to ensure solutions meet relevant regulatory requirements, including PCI DSS, SOX, and data privacy obligations, from the design stage onwards. Portal & Application Development Lead the technical design and delivery of internal and dealer-facing p