Product Lead Engineer

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Job Function:

Technology Product & Platform Management

Job Sub Function:

Technical Product Management

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Sao Jose, Brazil

Job Description:

We're looking for a Product Engineer - TA non-WD based in São José dos Campos

Job Summary

The Talent Acquisition IT Product Lead Engineer serves as the technical leader and engineering authority for Talent Acquisition products and platforms. This role defines technical direction, translates business requirements into scalable technology solutions, guides engineering decisions, and helps ensure the delivery of secure, reliable, and maintainable capabilities supporting the end-to-end talent acquisition ecosystem.

Working closely with Product Owners, HR stakeholders, Solution Architects, engineers, enterprise platform teams, and technology suppliers, the Lead Engineer drives engineering excellence across recruiting platforms, candidate experience technologies, AI-enabled hiring capabilities, workflow automation, analytics, and system integrations.

The Lead Engineer operates as a first-among-equals technical leader, providing direction, architectural guidance, and engineering oversight through expertise and influence. The role remains actively engaged in solution design, delivery, continuous improvement, and operational health, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, security requirements, engineering standards, and long-term platform strategy.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

·     Serve as the technical authority for assigned Talent Acquisition products and platforms.

·     Define and communicate the technical vision, solution strategy, and architectural direction for assigned products.

·     Translate business requirements, user stories, and recruiting process needs into scalable, secure, and sustainable technical solutions.

·     Guide engineers and internal / external delivery teams through complex technical challenges, architectural decisions, and solution implementation approaches.

·     Conduct technical design reviews, code reviews, solution assessments, and engineering reviews to ensure quality, maintainability, scalability, and security.

·     Establish and promote engineering standards, best practices, and reusable patterns across Talent Acquisition solutions.

·     Partner with Product Owners, vendors and Architects to balance business priorities, technical feasibility, and long-term platform sustainability.

·     Drive the management and reduction of technical debt while continuously improving engineering quality and platform health.

Product and Platform Engineering

·     Partner with Product Owners, Product Analysts, vendors and business stakeholders to translate business objectives into technical requirements and solution designs.

·     Drive the technical delivery of capabilities supporting recruiting, candidate relationship management, interview experiences, hiring workflows, onboarding, analytics, and AI-enabled recruiting solutions.

·     Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, cybersecurity requirements, data governance policies, privacy requirements, and compliance expectations.

·     Design scalable and reusable solutions that support global Talent Acquisition processes.

·     Evaluate solution alternatives and recommend technical approaches, platforms, integrations, and emerging technologies.

·     Support modernization initiatives that improve platform flexibility, maintainability, performance, and user experience.

Delivery Excellence

·     Provide technical leadership and engineering oversight across Agile product teams supporting Talent Acquisition and My Joining experiences.

·     Support backlog refinement and provide technical input into prioritization, sequencing, estimates, and acceptance criteria.

·     Ensure solutions are delivered with appropriate testing, automation, documentation, quality controls, release readiness, and operational support models.

·     Identify and resolve technical risks, dependencies, constraints, and impediments affecting delivery.

·     Collaborate across squads vendor and platform teams to manage cross-team dependencies and drive successful outcomes.

·     Promote engineering practices that improve delivery quality, reliability, security, and speed.

Integration and Architecture

·     Design and provide technical oversight for integrations between Talent Acquisition platforms and enterprise systems, including HR, identity management, analytics, AI, and third-party solutions.

·     Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and platform teams to align solutions with approved technology standards and future-state architecture.

·     Ensure effective API design, integration patterns, data exchange mechanisms, and nonfunctional requirements across the Talent Acquisition ecosystem.

·     Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions that improve recruiter productivity, hiring efficiency, candidate experience, and operational performance.

·     Contribute technical expertise to architecture reviews and enterprise technology discussions affecting Talent Acquisition products.

Operational Excellence

·     Help ensure platform stability, reliability, scalability, performance, observability, and security.

·     Monitor production health and partner with support teams to drive incident resolution, root-cause analysis, and preventive improvements.

·     Drive automation, DevOps practices, and continuous improvement across the solution lifecycle.

·     Support technology lifecycle management, including upgrades, vulnerability remediation, compliance activities, resiliency testing, and modernization.

·     Define and monitor technical metrics, service levels, quality measures, and operational performance indicators.

Supplier and Technology Partner Collaboration

·     Collaborate with technology suppliers and implementation partners to support successful solution delivery and platform operations.

·     Evaluate supplier platform roadmaps, technical capabilities, integration approaches, and solution risks.

·     Participate in solution assessments, proofs of concept, and technology evaluations.

·     Provide technical expertise during product selection, implementation planning, build-versus-buy analysis, and platform enhancement initiatives.

Required Qualifications

·     Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.

·     5+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, systems integration, or enterprise technology delivery.

·     Experience serving as a Lead Engineer, Technical Lead, Solution Lead, or Engineer in a complex technology environment.

·     Experience supporting Talent Acquisition, recruiting, Human Capital Management, or HR technology solutions.

·     Strong expertise in APIs, integrations, cloud technologies, enterprise application architecture, and modern software engineering practices.

·     Experience working within Agile product delivery models and cross-functional product teams.

·     Strong problem-solving, analytical, communication, and technical decision-making skills.

· Advanced English is must

·     Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements and customer needs into scalable technical solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

·     Experience with Workday Recruiting, Workday Extend, Beamery, Eightfold AI, Paradox, HireVue, LinkedIn Talent Solutions, SeekOut, or similar Talent Acquisition platforms.

·     Experience implementing AI-enabled recruiting, search, matching, screening, and automation capabilities.

·     Experience integrating HR, Talent Acquisition, identity management, analytics, and third-party technology platforms.

·     Knowledge of recruiting processes, candidate lifecycle management, and Talent Acquisition operations.

·     Experience supporting global enterprise technology solutions in regulated environments.

·     Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, test automation, cloud-native architectures, and modern integration patterns.

Leadership Competencies

·     Strategic thinker with strong business and technology acumen.

·     Influences technical direction and engineering decisions across business, vendors and technology stakeholders.

·     Communicates complex technical concepts clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.

·     Demonstrates sound judgment in balancing innovation, quality, security, scalability, cost, and operational stability.

·     Builds alignment across cross-functional teams through collaboration, expertise, and trusted technical leadership.

·     Champions engineering excellence, continuous improvement, customer focus, and a culture of quality.

·     Continuously learns and applies emerging technologies to improve business outcomes and user experiences.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Agile Product Development, Analytical Reasoning, Coaching, Collaboration, Competitive Landscape, Critical Thinking, Customer Alignment, Demand Forecasting, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Organizing, Product Development, Product Improvements, Product Strategies, Requirements Analysis, Research and Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Development Management, Stakeholder Management, Technical Credibility, Technical Writing, Technologically Savvy