Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada Looking for Tech Lead at Ottawa, ON Full Time

The Tech Lead is a “player-coach” who contributes across the technology stack as a developer, mentors team members, and partners with the Product Owner to identify technical trade-offs to realize a product roadmap. They lead the team through translation of UI/UX elements and user stories into technical design, implementation and launch. Strong communication skills are a must giving daily interfaces with key stakeholders

Core Responsibilities:

• Ultimately responsible for all technology aspects of the product including security, performance, scalability and maintainability
• Partners with product owners to identify technical trade-offs and suggest alternative solutions
• Enables the team by “leading by example” and creates enough room for the team to make their own decisions about technical design while ensuring overall technical vision is implemented
• Translate business needs into technical solutions and creates a plan of action with team
• Coach team members through code review, peering, and other techniques
• Oversees the design and implementation of overall architecture of the application; leading integration of front-end and back-end aspects of the application
• Coordinates with the Product Designers to translate UI/UX elements from designer to visual elements
• Implements security and data protection best practices
• Works with the Digital team to implement a robust set of services and APIs to power the application
• Works with the Digital team and business users to optimize the application for maximum speed and scalability
• Oversees the development of reusable code and libraries for future use
• Radiate knowledge to external stakeholders

Main Responsibilities:

• Bachelor’s degree with 6+ years professional experience – Master’s degree preferred
• 6+ years experience in software development, with hands-on coding across the full tech stack within the last year
• Experience with building consumer quality products, enabling business value through tech
• Experience in developing application in all digital channels including web and mobile
• Expert application development knowledge of any of the following technologies: Angular 8+/React, HTML5, CSS3, Java 8+, Spring/Spring
• Boot, JPA/Hibernate, OAuth2, OIDC, or equivalent languages, frameworks, and tools
• Ability to translate business requirements into solutions and familiar with key solution space, e.g., workflow, rules engine, CRM, logging
• Deep infrastructure knowledge including Single Sign On, web servers, Windows server, AWS
• AWS Certified
• Deep expertise and experience with engineering practices such as code refactoring, design patterns, design driven development, continuous integration, building highly scalable applications and application security
• Experience with setting up CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of secure coding and ability to address OWASP top 10
• Knowledge and experience with Agile process
• Distinct customer focus and quality mindset
• Ability to manage own learning and contribute to functional knowledge building
• Ability to work under pressure, manage stakeholder expectations effectively and not get overwhelmed by pressures on team
• Enjoys and gets energized by complex problem solving and ability to push the innovation on solutions
• Excellent leadership skills and enjoys coaching/upskilling others
• Excellent communication skills with strong ability to influence

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Dental care
• Extended health care
• Paid time off
• Vision care
• Work from home

Schedule:

Experience:

• Leadership: 3 years (required)
• Angular: 3 years (preferred)
• Node.js: 3 years (preferred)
• AWS: 3 years (preferred)

Expected start date: 2022-06-13