Light Touch
Weekly cadence focused on strategy, architecture review, and high-level delivery alignment. Ideal for stable teams that just need guidance.
Fractional Engineering Leadership
Senior-level architectural and delivery leadership for teams that need clarity, structure, and momentum—without hiring a full-time director or head of engineering.
Many teams reach a point where ad-hoc decisions and informal leadership aren't enough. Product complexity increases, integrations multiply, and delivery becomes harder to coordinate. Fractional engineering leadership brings in a steady, experienced hand to align architecture, roadmap, and execution—while your team keeps doing the work they do best.
In this model, we embed with your team as a part-time technical leader. We help shape the roadmap, clarify priorities, guide architectural decisions, and ensure delivery practices support the systems you're building. That includes working closely with engineers, product leads, stakeholders, and sometimes vendors to keep everyone pointed in the same direction.
The outcome is a calmer, more predictable engineering environment: fewer surprises, fewer abrupt course changes, and a platform that evolves intentionally instead of reactively, all without the overhead of a full-time executive hire.
How We Support Your Organization
- Clarify technical strategy and align it with product and business goals
- Guide architectural decisions across applications, data, and cloud
- Shape and refine delivery practices (sprints, releases, reviews)
- Mentor engineers, leads, and new technical hires
- Coordinate work across internal teams and external vendors
When Fractional Leadership Fits
- You've outgrown “informal” technical leadership
- Your roadmap is growing faster than your current capacity
- Architecture decisions feel reactive or inconsistent
- You need help stabilizing delivery and reducing thrash
- You're not ready—or able—to hire a full-time head of engineering
Modes of Engagement
Fractional leadership is flexible by design. We'll define a cadence that fits your team's size, maturity, and current level of change.
Embedded
Deeper involvement in ceremonies, planning, and architecture decisions. Ideal when you're actively modernizing or scaling.
Team Uplift
Focused on mentoring engineers, refining practices, and preparing internal leaders to eventually take on more responsibility.
“The right engineering leadership doesn't just ship more—it makes the whole system feel calmer and more predictable.”
Fractional leadership gives you senior-level guidance and structure while your existing team stays focused on building.
Need Steady Technical Leadership Without a Full-Time Hire?
If your teams are busy, your roadmap is growing, and you need calm, senior-level guidance, fractional engineering leadership can help bring everything into alignment.
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StepStream Solutions is a fractional CTO and product acceleration studio helping founders build trustworthy data platforms and modern cloud foundations.
Solutions
How We Partner
- Fractional CTO leadership for seed to growth teams
- End-to-end data platform and product assessments
- Embedded squads for net-new builds or modernization
Connect
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- Address
- Remote-first · Dallas, TX
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- Phone
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- hello@stepstream.io
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- Availability
- Mon–Fri · 8am – 6pm CT