Technical Director

**Company Mission**:
ATEK provides safe, compliant, and efficient monitoring solutions for critical environments in research, healthcare, and pharmaceutical facilities. We enable our clients to focus on what matters most—research, innovation, and patient well-being—by ensuring their critical monitoring systems operate flawlessly.

**The Strategic Importance of This Role**:
As ATEK enters a crucial scaling phase, the Technical Director position represents a pivotal leadership role that will shape our technological future and organizational capacity. This is not simply a technical position—it's a strategic leadership role that requires someone who can both execute technical excellence and drive strategic vision.

**What This Moment Requires**:
We are at an inflection point where our technical foundation must support rapid growth while maintaining the reliability our clients depend on for critical operations. We need a leader who can:

- ** Execute and Demonstrate**: Roll up their sleeves to build, troubleshoot, and deliver technical solutions while setting the standard for engineering excellence
- ** Think Strategically**: Develop and articulate a clear technology roadmap that aligns with business objectives and positions ATEK for sustainable growth
- ** Lead and Scale**: Build, mentor, and inspire a growing technical team while establishing processes that enable scalable operations
- ** Communicate Effectively**: Translate complex technical concepts into strategic narratives for the leadership team, ensuring clear alignment between technical initiatives and business priorities
- ** Bridge Technical and Business**: Serve as the critical link between engineering execution and business strategy, ensuring every technical decision advances our mission

**Success in This Role Means**:
You will be accountable for building the technical foundation that enables ATEK to scale from startup to market leader while maintaining the reliability and compliance that our clients in critical environments demand. Your ability to balance hands-on technical leadership with strategic planning will directly impact our growth trajectory and market position.

**Role**:

- Leads the technical architecture, infrastructure, and development of ATEK's monitoring platform and embedded systems, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security for critical environments in research, healthcare, and pharmaceutical facilities. Leverages AI-powered tools for documentation and strategic technical planning.

**Responsibilities**:

- Design and maintain the complete technical architecture for ATEK's cloud-based monitoring platform and IoT infrastructure
- Develop and execute multi-year technology roadmaps aligned with business growth objectives
- Lead and scale the technical team through mentorship, process development, and strategic hiring
- Communicate technical strategy and initiative alignment to the leadership team in clear, business-focused terms
- Architect and implement database solutions (MongoDB, PostgreSQL) ensuring data integrity and performance
- Oversee embedded systems development (C++) for monitoring devices and calibration systems
- Manage cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform) and ensure 99.9%+ uptime for critical monitoring services
- Design and maintain disaster recovery plans, backup procedures, and security protocols
- Collaborate with Operations, Quality, and Sales teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions
- Leverage AI tools for efficient technical documentation and knowledge management
- Manage vendor relationships with hardware suppliers and technical partners
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment and testing
- Document all technical systems, processes, and architectural decisions
- Present quarterly technical strategy updates to the leadership team with clear ROI and business impact

**Key Processes**:

- Cloud infrastructure management and DevOps
- Database design, optimization, and management (SQL and NoSQL)
- Embedded systems development and hardware integration
- API development and third-party integrations (LoRaWAN, IoT devices)
- Security management and access control
- System monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance optimization
- ** AI-assisted technical documentation and knowledge capture**:

- ** Strategic technical planning and roadmap development**:

- ** Team leadership, mentorship, and capacity building**:

- ** Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder communication**:

- Vendor and supplier technical coordination

**Key Skills**:

- Expert knowledge of full-stack web development (JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS)
- Proficiency in modern frameworks (Node.js, AngularJS or React)
- Strong experience with databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis)
- Embedded systems development (C++, IoT protocols preferred)
- Deep understanding of cloud platforms (Google Cloud Platform, AWS)
- Experience with DevOps practices and containerization (Docker)
- Knowled