Product Group Team Lead / Architect

Sourceability is a global digital distributor of electronic components transforming how modern businesses bring products to market. With innovation, quality and logistics as the backbone of the company, Sourceabilitys cutting-edge products and services expedite the procurement process across a wide range of industries, including communications/cellular, consumer electronics, and auto manufacturing. Sourceability is building a new Global Engineering Organization (GEO) to strengthen internal software delivery, improve production ownership, and build long-term engineering capability inside the company. We are looking for a hands-on Product Group Team Lead / Architect to own technical direction, architecture, engineering quality, and technical execution for an assigned product group or internal software platform. This role is intended for a senior technical leader who can stay close to code, design, delivery risks, production issues, and engineering quality while also guiding other engineers. This is not a formal people management role. Engineering Managers will own people management, hiring, performance feedback, capacity planning, and team structure. Product / Delivery Managers will own business intake, prioritization, backlog readiness, user communication, and UAT coordination. The Product Group Team Lead / Architect will own technical design, architecture decisions, engineering quality, implementation approach, technical mentoring, and L3 technical escalation for the assigned product group. The right candidate should be comfortable working in a practical, execution-focused environment where systems are business-critical, some platforms are legacy, and engineering ownership is being formalized as part of the new GEO operating model. Assigned Product Group: This role may be assigned to one of the following product groups or internal software platform areas: SourceCore NLP Mobile App / Computer Vision Legacy PHP Other internal business platforms as needed The core responsibilities of the role remain the same across product groups, but the technical stack, business context, users, delivery priorities, and production risks will vary by assignment. Product Group Focus Areas: Depending on assignment, the role may focus on one or more of the following areas: SourceCore: Core business platform, enterprise workflows, integrations, SQL Server-backed systems, production stability, scalability, maintainability, and business process support. NLP: Text processing, data pipelines, model evaluation workflows, taxonomy support, internal AI-assisted tools, training / evaluation datasets, and integration of NLP capabilities into business workflows. Mobile App / Computer Vision: Warehouse mobile workflows, mobile application architecture, image capture, computer vision model integration, user feedback loops, UAT support, and field / warehouse usability. Legacy PHP: Maintenance, stabilization, modernization planning, integration cleanup, technical debt reduction, security improvements, and safe transition of legacy functionality where needed. Insight on Your Impact: In this role, you will: Own the technical direction, architecture, and engineering quality for an assigned product group or internal software platform. Lead technical design discussions, architecture reviews, work breakdown, implementation planning, and technical sequencing for the assigned product group. Stay hands-on in code, design, troubleshooting, technical reviews, and production problem solving. Partner with Product / Delivery Managers to translate business priorities and backlog items into practical technical plans. Partner with Engineering Managers to identify capacity needs, delivery risks, technical skill gaps, and team-level blockers. Provide technical estimates, implementation options, dependency analysis, and risk assessment for planned work. Review critical code changes and enforce code quality, maintainability, testability, documentation, and engineering standards. Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, technical coaching, and hands-on problem solving. Own L3 technical escalation for assigned systems, including investigation of complex defects, production issues, and urgent business-impacting problems. Lead technical root cause analysis after production incidents and define practical remediation actions. Identify technical debt, architectural weaknesses, single points of failure, and maintainability risks. Propose pragmatic modernization, refactoring, stabilization, or remediatio .