Senior Technical Leader

Join a leading enterprise that empowers its business operations through cutting-edge technology and advanced analytics. This organization is at the forefront of leveraging data to drive strategic decisions and deliver exceptional value. Partnering with Aquent, we are seeking a visionary technologist to join our dynamic team and make a significant impact on our core analytical platforms. In this role, you will be instrumental in shaping the future of our enterprise analytical infrastructure, supporting hundreds of users across diverse business lines. Your expertise will directly influence the stability, performance, and innovation of critical data science and analytics workflows, driving significant business outcomes and fostering a culture of technical excellence.

**About the Role:**

As a senior technical leader, you will guide the Advanced Analytics Engineering team, serving as the go-to expert for complex infrastructure challenges and strategic platform evolution. You will play a crucial role in maintaining and enhancing the robust analytical environment that underpins critical business decisions. This position offers a unique opportunity to combine deep technical expertise with team leadership, business stakeholder engagement, and strategic technology planning, directly contributing to the organization's technological advancement and resilience.

**Key Responsibilities:**

* Provide senior technical leadership and architectural guidance to the Advanced Analytics Engineering team, mentoring members on best practices for server administration, deployment automation, and cross-platform integration.

* Manage, upgrade, and support core enterprise analytical platforms, including Python distributions, statistical computing environments, and statistical programming ecosystems across diverse operating systems and cloud environments.

* Design, implement, and maintain comprehensive server monitoring and alerting solutions to ensure high availability and optimal performance of critical analytics workloads.

* Lead disaster recovery coordination for analytical platforms, ensuring business continuity through proactive monitoring, documented recovery procedures, and regular testing.

* Govern production pipeline signoffs, establishing rigorous testing and validation protocols for all deployments, upgrades, and security patches to ensure zero-impact rollouts.

* Advocate for and integrate modern AI tools and methodologies to enhance team workflows and drive innovation within the analytics infrastructure.

* Oversee the management of a broad array of software products and technologies, including analytics platforms, cloud services, authentication & security systems, and internal web applications.

**Must-Have Qualifications:**

* Extensive experience managing, upgrading, and supporting enterprise analytical platforms serving a large user base (500+ users).

* Deep technical expertise in multi-platform analytics infrastructure across Linux, Windows, and cloud environments.

* Proficiency in managing custom Python distributions, including version upgrades, security remediation, virtual environments, and automated package scanning.

* Strong experience overseeing enterprise statistical computing platforms, including major version upgrades, client connectivity, performance troubleshooting, and web service integration.

* Expertise in managing statistical programming ecosystems, including server environments, package compilation, repository management, and integration with version control.

* Hands-on experience with core infrastructure components such as enterprise Linux, cloud compute/storage services, and web servers.

* Solid understanding and experience with authentication protocols, security best practices, and access management in complex IT environments.

* Proven ability to design and implement monitoring, alerting, and operational scripts for server health and performance.

* Experience with development tools, version control systems, and deployment automation for web applications and services.

* Demonstrated leadership in providing technical guidance, architectural decisions, and mentorship to engineering teams.

* Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and drive timely resolution.

* Experience coordinating disaster recovery efforts and ensuring business continuity for critical systems.

* Proven track record in production pipeline governance, including rigorous testing, validation, and communication for critical deployments.

* Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement skills.

**About Aquent Talent:** Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. More information on our awesome benefits! Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $37 to $41. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.

About Aquent Talent:

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands.

Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.