Lead Engineer

POSITION SUMMARY The Lead Engineer is responsible for the technical execution of HALO, Hirschi Technologies’ seven\-year\-old .NET and Angular construction operations platform used by Hirschi Companies and its affiliate companies. HALO spans five applications (Estimating, Project Management, OPS Dashboard, Field Schedule, and Chocblock), is currently maintained by a contracted external development team, and runs on\-premises with a future cloud migration. The Lead Engineer manages the day\-to\-day technical relationship with the contracted development team, sets technical and process standards, ships production code, builds direct working relationships with HALO’s end users, and grows an in\-house engineering team. ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES * Translate the General Manager’s product vision and end\-user feedback into technical roadmaps, sprint priorities, and shipped features. * Audit the existing HALO codebase, identify architectural and quality risk, and prioritize refactors that improve scalability, security, and maintainability. * Build and maintain direct working relationships with HALO end users to ensure product decisions reflect real operational needs. * Manage the daily technical relationship with the contracted development team, including standups, code review, and accountability for velocity and quality. * Ship production code across the .NET and Angular stack. * Establish CI/CD, automated testing, and release standards across backend and frontend. * Lead infrastructure planning and execution across hosting, authentication, cloud migration, and third\-party integrations, with material decisions approved by the General Manager. * Lead HALO platform support, including service desk triage, production troubleshooting, on\-call response, and escalation management. * Document architecture and undocumented system behavior during the contracted team’s knowledge transfer to reduce institutional risk. * Hire, mentor, and manage subsequent engineering hires a