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Lyra Technology Group · 23 hours ago

Platform Engineering Lead

United States

Full-time

Remote

Entry, Mid Level

2+ years exp

Lyra Technology Group is a private equity-backed holding company that invests in technology service businesses. The Platform Engineering Lead is responsible for owning the planning and delivery pipeline for all platform engineering work, ensuring accurate timelines and reliable execution without managing people.

Business DevelopmentIndustrialInformation Technology

Responsibilities

Build and maintain the master roadmap in GitHub Projects/Azure DevOps and Ignite

Convert incoming ideas into scoped items with clear acceptance criteria and ETAs

Keep a live dashboard that shows status, blockers, and forecast completion dates

Run planning sessions, standups, and retros; define sprint cadence as needed

Track and report metrics to leadership every week

Facilitate documentation of new processes and integrations

Organize and deliver training sessions that improve team adoption of the workflow

Work with engineers on estimation, planning, and process discipline

Perform weekly backlog grooming to merge duplicates, close stale items, and re-confirm priorities with stakeholders

Monitor cross-team dependencies and coordinate when projects overlap

Maintain a high-level understanding of all active projects so you can step in when an engineer is out

Can adjust ETAs and sequence work to hit goals

Escalates capacity conflicts and cross team tradeoffs to Head of Technology

Can assign owners to projects and set due dates

Can accept and reject new ideas that come though the project pipeline

Does not manage people. All managerial tasks and issues are managed by Head of Technology

Weekly calls with each engineer to review assignments and ensure tasks are on schedule

Daily stand ups

Coach engineers on writing thorough notes and status updates

Reviews progress and flags issues early

Onboard new team members

Create and maintain training materials

Qualification

GitHubAzure DevOpsCannyProject managementMeeting facilitationInfluencing without authorityWritten communicationOrganizational skillsRemote collaboration

Required

Working knowledge of GitHub, Canny and Azure DevOps

Working knowledge of modern programming flows

Proven ability to break down work, set deadlines, and hit them

Strong written communication and meeting facilitation

Comfort with EST work hours and remote collaboration

Highly organized, reliable, calm under pressure

Can influence without authority and drive adoption

2+ years coordinating and/or managing workflows, systems or projects

Benefits

Health, Dental, Vision & other additional benefits

401K (With 4% Match) eligible after 90 Days

Generous PTO

Company

Lyra Technology Group

Lyra Technology Group is a technology service businesses that operates by exceptional management teams. It is a sub-organization of Evergreen Services Group.

Founded in 2017

Chicago, Illinois, USA

1001-5000 employees