Job Title: Senior Technologist

Company Name: 8th Light

Job Url: https://boards.greenhouse.io/embed/job_app?token=7660019003&utm_source=jobright&jr_id=69b0740f749500645096b16a

Job Description: As a go-to technologist and strategist within 8th Light, you’ll work with a variety of clients, typically one to two in a year, while continuing to deepen your and our collective domain expertise over the course of your career with us. You’ll be responsible for:

Rapidly building trust with clients, demonstrating technical expertise and understanding of their domain and objectives 
Guiding technical direction, solving complex problems, and demonstrating best practices while remaining deeply engaged within the codebase
Working pragmatically to balance technology choices while delivering high-quality work within deadlines
Advising clients on architecture, scalability and platform evolution, connecting technical decisions to product and business outcomes
Collaborating on systems that involve the full ML lifecycle from data ingestion and preprocessing, to model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring
Driving innovation by proactively surfacing new technical approaches and product solutions
Leading or initiating formal feedback conversations with teams and clients via retrospectives
Clearly articulating and documenting outcomes and driving forward action items
Contributing to the health of your team and 8th Light’s culture by modeling our Values
Designing and managing high-level technical roadmaps for large engagements
Building your network and maintaining relationships with clients and other industry leaders within your domain
Coaching client engineering teams, transferring knowledge and leveling up practices
Influencing client CTOs and executive decisions. Planning and execute technical work that involves stakeholders outside of project boundaries such as across a client's technical organization
Participating in account planning; opportunity identification.
Facilitating retrospectives, strategy sessions, and technical deep-dives to improve team and project outcomes
Identifying, mitigating, and resolving blockers to team progress
Contributing to 8th Light by serving as a mentor, leading or designing workshops internally or for clients, representing 8th Light in the tech community, or supporting our hiring processes
Demonstrating leadership in scalable system design, modular architecture, and platform- or product-oriented development.
Bringing depth in testing strategies, observability, fault tolerance, and secure engineering practices.
Applying architectural patterns to evaluate tradeoffs and drive clear, documented design rationale.