SAP Looking for Technical Lead – Applications at Montréal, QC Full Time

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Purpose and Objectives

Are you interested in helping world-class enterprises to solve their most complex business challenges, blaze disruptive new trails and bring their company’s vision to life?

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Role Overview

The Technical Lead for application maintenance and support, is primarily responsible for the maintenance and support of internal applications built by the services teams and for ensuring high-quality development of bug fixes and enhancements to those applications. You will be responsible for coordinating and delegating tasks with our team in Poland, as well as reviewing team code, solution design and architecture to ensure high quality of the solution provided. This is a technical role that requires development best practices, good leadership skills and a holistic application management and support.

Responsibilities

The key responsibilities of this role are the following:
Leading a team of junior developers to support and maintain internally built applications

Troubleshooting and establishing the root causes of application errors

Monitoring application availability and performance

Developing in Java/Spring

Coordinating, splitting, and delegating development tasks and bugs

Reviewing code of internal team members

Prioritizing bugs and features

Technical reviews with developers to ensure common understanding of the solution

Providing technical expertise within the team

Coaching and mentoring junior team members based in Poland

Technical overview of the solution including its hosting on cloud hyperscalers

Ensuring high levels of motivation of the team

Strong focus on high-quality from the team throughout the development process

Internal stakeholder management and internal customer facing

Assisting in the interview process for developers

Ensuring excellent communication and collaboration between all internal teams

Qualifications

Ideal candidates for this role will have the following:
Experience with application maintenance and support

Strong verbal and written English

2+ years experience as a technical lead

5+ years experience developing Java applications

Ability to take technical leadership responsibility

Strong experience of Java technologies

Strong experience of Spring and Springboot

Experience of Gradle and/or Maven

Experience of infrastructure and deployment processes (CI/CD, Jenkins and others)

Experience of cloud hyperscalers (AWS, GCP or Azure)

Experience and understanding of design patterns

Any of the following would be an advantage but not required:
Experience of web/mobile application development

Experience of Javascript frameworks such as ReactJS, VueJS or Angular

Experience of eCommerce projects

Experience of application maintenance

Experience in leading Agile projects

WHAT YOU GET FROM US

Success is what you make it. At SAP, we help you make it your own. A career at SAP can open many doors for you. If you’re searching for a company that’s dedicated to your ideas and individual growth, recognizes you for your unique contributions, fills you with a strong sense of purpose, and provides a fun, flexible and inclusive work environment – apply now.

SAP’S DIVERSITY COMMITMENT

To harness the power of innovation, SAP invests in the development of its diverse employees. We aspire to leverage the qualities and appreciate the unique competencies that each person brings to the company.

SAP is committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity and to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team (Americas: [email protected] or [email protected], APJ: [email protected], EMEA: [email protected]).

Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.