Our enterprise client is currently looking for a Technical Lead to join their team on a full time permanent basis. You will be working on integrating a system with provincial jurisdictions to exchange electronic data. You will be leading a talented & collaborative team.
What You Will Do:
Cultivate a deep understanding of the portfolio of applications we utilize, along with their respective strengths and weaknesses, to provide solutions to existing and future challenges.
Lead technical architecture for a whole component and/or cross-functional team.
Help to define the long-term vision for your team, aligning with the company's strategic and tactical goals.
Translate project goals and product roadmaps into organized technical tasks.
Through your knowledge of industry trends and tools, together with your own experiences, guide the team to improve our software, our environment, and our process.
Provide guidance and direction to the development team to tear down obstacles and keep initiatives on target and moving forward.
Coach and mentor developers in the team through technical design sessions, code reviews and pair programming.
Provide technical guidance and support in resolving critical production issues.
Construct design documents and documentation to aid in maintenance and code reuse.
What You Will Have:
You are a seasoned developer with solid programming skills and mentorship experience.
You are opinionated about what it takes to produce great software but remain receptive to other's ideas
You have developed large applications in a team environment.
You are a good communicator. You are able to present complicated solutions to non-technical audience in a simple and logical way.
You have deep understanding of web software development with a minimum of 7 years of programming expertise in that field. While you may not code every day, understanding the context of your team’s work is paramount.
60% team handing 40% hands on development
You have a track record of successfully mentoring
You have keen awareness and understanding of performance, security, and other software development best practices.
You are well versed in agile software development processes.
You have experience with some of the following backend technologies:
Java, Spring Boot, Junit, Gradle
Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
CI/CD (Gitlab, Jenkins, Team City)
Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs
Strong understanding of systems and microservices design
Some understanding of cloud architecture in GCP, AWS, or Azure