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Engineering Lead

Apex Systems
Raleigh, NC Full Time
POSTED ON 8/9/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 9/9/2026
Job#: 3037683

Job Description:
Engineering Lead

Location: Raleigh, North Carolina / Charlotte, North Carolina / Atlanta, GA / Richmond, VA - 5x a week on-site

Role Overview

The Engineering Lead provides technical and delivery leadership to ensure the Service-Aware Operating Model is implemented as a coherent, sustainable engineering capability. This role aligns architecture, platform engineering, integration delivery, and data enablement into a unified execution model. The lead is accountable for orchestrating engineering outcomes, resolving tradeoffs, and maintaining alignment to strategic objectives and engineering standards.

Key Responsibilities
  • Translate Service-Aware objectives into an actionable engineering roadmap that aligns platform, data, integration, and service visibility work.
  • Provide leadership across engineering disciplines to resolve design dependencies, delivery tradeoffs, and sequencing challenges.
  • Establish expectations for engineering quality, maintainability, release readiness, and operational supportability.
  • Drive disciplined planning, review, and execution practices to improve predictability and reduce implementation risk.
  • Engage with leadership and partner teams to maintain visibility into delivery progress, dependencies, risks, and decisions.
  • Guide engineering efforts toward outcomes that improve service visibility, governance maturity, reliability, and automation readiness.
  • Use delivery lessons, platform feedback, and operational patterns to continuously improve the engineering approach.
Required Qualifications
  • Extensive experience leading engineering teams or complex platform transformation initiatives.
  • Strong ability to align architecture, engineering execution, and operational outcomes across multiple technical disciplines.
  • Experience establishing delivery discipline, engineering standards, and cross-functional accountability in complex environments.
  • Proven ability to lead through ambiguity, prioritize effectively, and drive durable outcomes across interconnected workstreams.
  • A Bachelor's Degree is preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience supporting service-centric or Service-Aware operating models.
  • Familiarity with platform engineering, data architecture, integration delivery, and service visibility capabilities.
  • Background in highly regulated, large-scale, or operationally complex environments.
  • Relevant leadership, engineering, or architecture certifications.


Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6 months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

If you require an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act to participate in an interview with a virtual recruiter or to use our website for a search or application, please contact our Benefits Department at or . Please note that this contact information is strictly to be used for medical ADA accommodations and that no other inquiries will be answered.

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