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Lead Application Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: To Be Discussed
Reviewed: Tue, Sep 08, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

Seeking a Lead Application Engineer for a full-time contract-to-hire position in Columbus, OH, who will manage technical support, engineering, and lifecycle direction for a business application portfolio, focusing on production support and system integration.

Key responsibilities:
  • Own technical architecture and engineering direction for the application portfolio
  • Lead complex production incident diagnosis, recovery, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action planning
  • Establish and maintain technical standards for development, testing, deployment, monitoring, security, documentation, and support
Required qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field
  • 10+ years of relevant software development, application engineering, or production-support experience
  • Advanced relational-database and SQL experience, particularly with SQL Server/T-SQL and Oracle/SQL
  • Experience leading high-severity incident response and root-cause analysis
  • Experience producing technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and support runbooks

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