Team Lead

Job Requirements

As a Team Lead, you deliver world-class service within assigned teams, leading to account growth. This role involves providing delivery leadership for one large or up to three small teams within a single project. You will coach and mentor junior team members, sharing the skills and best practices you have developed throughout your experience. Your role is pivotal in ensuring high performance, fostering team development, and driving successful project outcomes that contribute to the growth and reputation of the organization.

A successful candidate in this role can independently operate with minimal support from their leadership in day-to-day tasks and decision-making. This team lead will impact Fearless' customers by:

• Delivering exceptional service, identifying new business opportunities, and maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction.
• Leading teams to consistently meet project milestones, ensuring compliance, quality, and the successful implementation of solutions.
• Cultivating a culture of excellence, ensuring accountability, continuous improvement, and skill development within the team.
• Acting as a strategic advisor to customers and stakeholders, guiding decisions that align with the organization's mission and long-term goals.

The Impact You Will Create:

As a Team Lead, you will serve as both an API Architect technical leader and team lead for large-scale digital modernization programs supporting one of our customers. This role combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership and consultative skills to design, implement, and optimize API-driven architectures that enable secure, scalable, and interoperable solutions across complex enterprise environments.

Serving as both a hands-on API architect and Fearless Team Lead, you will guide cross-functional teams of engineers, analysts, and developers to ensure solutions meet performance, compliance, and mission objectives. You will also foster collaboration, continuous improvement, and innovation in alignment with Fearless's standards of delivery excellence.

Your Responsibilities in This Role:

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of API-based integration and data exchange solutions across cloud and enterprise systems.
• Establish and enforce best practices for API design, integration, deployment, and lifecycle management, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards for security, scalability, and performance.
• Collaborate with architects, business analysts, engineers, and project managers on a range of initiatives including software development, infrastructure modernization, and system integration.
• Define and document solution architectures that encompass application, data, and network layers for enterprise-scale environments.
• Evaluate technology options and influence requirements to ensure architectural integrity and technical feasibility.
• Provide architectural oversight and technical guidance to engineering teams, ensuring consistent implementation of design principles and best practices.
• Lead DevOps integration and automation efforts, ensuring smooth delivery of APIs and applications through CI/CD pipelines.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor, translating architectural concepts into actionable strategies for both technical and business audiences.
• Drive innovation through adoption of modern tools, frameworks, and architectural patterns that enhance delivery speed, reliability, and maintainability.
• Mentor and coach team members to strengthen their technical capabilities and promote architectural thinking across the organization.
• Manage delivery quality and performance, ensuring project milestones are met on time and within budget.
• Cultivate strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, earning trust through technical excellence, reliability, and transparency.
• Identify opportunities for growth and optimization, recommending process or technology enhancements that improve delivery outcomes.
• Support business development and proposal efforts by contributing architectural insights and technical solutioning expertise.
• Lead one large or up to three small teams, ensuring successful project delivery in line with government contracting requirements and best practices.
• Mentor and coach junior team members, sharing expertise and best practices to build their skills and competencies.
• Conduct performance reviews, manage team resources, and drive continuous improvement to enhance team performance and outcomes.
• Use metrics and data analysis to track team progress, allocate resources effectively, and ensure alignment with project goals.

Work Experience

Skills and Qualifications We Require at Fearless:

At Fearless, we seek candidates who blend technical know-how with sharp problem-solving and advisory skills to drive real impact in the communities we serve. Here are the key qualifications for this role.

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical fi eld (or equivalent experience).
• Ability to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance
• Proven experience in API architecture, integration design, and system interoperability across enterprise or cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with API management platforms (e.g., MuleSoft, Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management, or similar technologies).
• Deep understanding of API lifecycle management, RESTful and event-driven architectures, and authentication standards such as OAuth2 and JWT.
• Expertise designing and implementing cloud-native, scalable, and secure architectures using AWS, Azure, or comparable platforms.
• Strong background in DevOps and CI/CD practices, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and automated testing or deployment pipelines.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams in designing and delivering large, complex technology solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to influence requirements and guide architectural decision-making.
• Proven experience mentoring engineers, managing delivery quality, and conducting architectural reviews for compliance and best practice alignment.
• Consultative expertise, including the ability to build customer intimacy, influence stakeholders, and collaboratively solution in partnership with business and technical teams.
• Skilled at presenting architectural strategies and answering questions concisely and comprehensively for diverse audiences.
• Experience supporting government or large enterprise projects of similar scale and complexity preferred.
• Cloud Architect certifi cation (e.g., AWS Certifi ed Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect) required.

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to sit for extended periods while working on a computer or during meetings.
• Must be able to travel occasionally to client sites or company meetings.
• Ability to communicate effectively via phone, email, and in-person, requiring clear speech, listening, and written communication skills.
• Ability to move within an office environment, including reaching for files, using office equipment, and occasional light lifting (up to 10 pounds).

Benefits

Life at Fearless

We're a digital integration consultancy on a mission to build a better tomorrow. At Fearless, we combine technology, people, and organizational development to solve meaningful problems. Through iterative development, we deliver smart, user-friendly solutions that make tech work better-for everyone.

But great tech is just part of the story. What really makes us Fearless is our Purple Culture.

What Makes Us Purple?
Being Purple means you:

• Are valued as a whole person-not just a job title
• Get matched with work that plays to your strengths and passions
• Are supported by coaches, not micromanagers
• Have the autonomy and clarity to make decisions and drive impact
• Join a community that celebrates equity, curiosity, and innovation
• Do work that matters-every day

We believe in flexibility, growth, and balance. Our benefits and culture are designed to support you in doing your best work-while making space for what matters to you outside of it.

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer. At Fearless, we're building a workplace that welcomes and respects everyone-across race, gender, age, religion, identity, background, and ability.

Compensation at Fearless
Fearless is committed to providing a competitive compensation package that will meet your current and future needs. Our philosophy is aimed at rewarding team member contributions, supporting long-term financial growth and security, and overall well-being.

We believe in paying people fairly, so we've established a compensation model aimed to ensure everyone at Fearless - regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, nationality, or willingness/ability to negotiate - is consistently paid fairly based on alignment to the needs and requirements of the role.

The salary range for this position is:

Minimum Salary: $114,844

Salary Midpoint: $149,299

Maximum Salary: $183,752

Hiring Range for Role: $114,844 - $151,000

*For part-time roles, the salary will be pro-rated based on the full-time equivalent salary ranges listed above.

Benefits at Fearless

At Fearless, we take care of our team-because when you're supported, you can do your best work. We offer a flexible, family-friendly environment with benefits designed to support your health, growth, and life outside of work.

For Full-Time Team Members (Starting Day One):

• Flexible, life-friendly schedules
• 100% coverage for our medical HSA plan + HSA contributions
• Dental & vision covered 100% for you and your dependents
• Competitive premiums for HMO/PPO and dependent coverage
• 401(k) with 4% match & immediate vesting
• Paid Parental Leave and 12 weeks paid FMLA
• Generous PTO, 11 Federal Holidays, a Birthday Holiday, and Sick Leave
• Up to 15 days for Jury Duty and Bereavement Leave
• Education, wellness, and tech allowances
• Referral bonus: $6K-$12K for each successful referral
• Pet insurance & discount plans
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Legal support, life insurance, disability coverage

Part-Time & Interns:

• 8.75 days of safe & sick leave annually
• Eligible for our 401(k) plan with employer contributions

Reasonable Accommodations
Fearless is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and candidates with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact the Human Resources Department at hr@fearless.tech .

So, What's Next?

We've refined our hiring approach to make sure every team member is a great fit for Fearless-and that we're a great fit for you, too. If there's alignment, we'll reach out to kick off the interview process. Depending on the role or project, your experience may vary slightly, but it typically includes:

Introductory Interview
You'll connect with a recruiter to:

• Build rapport and get to know each other
• Review your experience and skills
• Talk through salary expectations and role details
• Set expectations for the rest of the process

Skills + Business Fit Interview
This is where we dig deeper to:

• Review findings from any technical assessments
• Walk through situational and values-based questions
• Explore how your approach aligns with Fearless culture and project needs

Some roles may also include customer interviews based on specific project requirements in addition to background check and security clearance requirements.