Technical Screening Consultant

Join us as a seasoned Technical Screening Consultant and play a key role in shaping the future of our tech talent! Partner with our dynamic recruitment team to conduct in-depth, rigorous technical assessments across a wide range of IT roles, including software engineering, data, cloud, DevOps, cybersecurity, QA, and enterprise applications. This role bridges talent acquisition and engineering, ensuring that only technically qualified candidates progress to client interviews.

What Youll Do (Responsibilities):

• Own technical evaluations after recruiter screen: conduct structured assessments (live and/or takehome) and produce pass/nopass recommendations.
• Design rolespecific assessment frameworks: skills matrices, scorecards, question banks, coding exercises, and scenario simulations per job family (dev, data, cloud, IT ops).
• Run live technical screens (3060 mins): code walkthroughs, systems design, debugging, architecture review, and practical problemsolving.
• Validate candidate claims: probe depth of handson experience, frameworks, tooling, and productiongrade patterns.
• Standardize rubrics for consistency across assessors; calibrate with hiring managers; maintain fairness and bias mitigation.
• Produce concise written evaluations: technical summary, strengths/risks, level calibration (e.g., mid vs. senior), and recommended interview focus areas.
• Partner with recruiters: refine job requirements, musthave vs. nicetohave, and recommend sourcing pivots based on funnel analytics.
• Continuously improve question banks and assessments based on client feedback and hiring outcomes.
• Operational reporting: track passthrough rates, timeto-screen, false positives/negatives, and quality of hire signals.
• Tooling & compliance: manage assessment platforms and uphold data privacy & ethical hiring standards.

Ideal Background (Qualifications):

• 5–10+ years in software development, data engineering/science, cloud/DevOps, or technical program management; multidisciplinary experience preferred.
• Handson expertise in at least two of:
• Software Engineering: Java, .NET, Python, JS/TS, Node, React/Angular, microservices.
• Data: SQL, Python, Spark, ETL, warehousing (Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift), ML basics.
• Cloud/DevOps: AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform/ARM, CI/CD, observability.
• Security/IT Ops: IAM, network fundamentals, security controls, incident response.
• Experience designing and administering technical assessments and calibrating levels.
• Strong communication: translating technical depth into clear, nonjargon summaries.
• Familiarity with screening tools (e.g., CoderPad, Codility, HackerRank, LeetCode, Takehome design).
• Understanding of systems design, scalability, reliability, testing, and code quality.
• Knowledge of inclusive assessment practices and minimizing bias.
• Bachelor’s/Master’s in CS/Engineering or equivalent experience.

Core Competencies:

• Technical breadth & depth across modern stacks.
• Structured interviewing & rubric-driven evaluation.
• Systems thinking; practical problem-solving.
• Stakeholder management (recruiters, hiring managers, clients).
• Data-driven decision making; continuous improvement mindset.
• High integrity, confidentiality, and candidate experience focus.