Tech Lead

Tech Lead, Home Finance Technology Team

We’re On a Mission

Are you a technical person with innovative ideas and a passion for delivering market-leading digital customer experiences? Make your mark by helping us reimagine how we interact with our customers and create the experiences that matter to them. We’re building a team of passionate people, working collaboratively to reimagine banking for the digital age.

How ?

We are building platform teams, combining people with different skills and knowledge, to accelerate our customer experience. These teams will work in an Agile manner, hybrid working model and embrace the latest methods, tools, and technologies to drive innovation and change. The team will work in a cross-functional organization, empowered and have the resources and authority to drive a customer-led digital transformation. The team delivers enterprise client services to both internal applications and to external partners, built on a modern hybrid cloud platform using the latest micro-services architecture. We design, build and operate the services we own.

As a Tech Lead, Home Finance Technology Team you will:

• Report to the Senior Manager Development , Home Finance Technology
• Work within a team through the full lifecycle software development from inception to delivery, through production operations, including coding, code reviews, testing and running the software in production.
• Help the PM or Scrum Master organize development functionality and assign tasks to developers.
• Provide guides and support to junior/intermediate developers.
• Design and develop applications, coordinate with the rest of the team to deliver high quality software products.
• Collaborate with the business and technology stakeholders to drive change throughout the organization, enhancing the customer experience.
• Develop both new applications and improve our existing ones in performance, capability, and reliability.
• Employ best practices in utilizing a broad platform of technologies within a cloud based micro services environment.
• Participate in code reviews, technical and project meetings
• Enhance and maintain API governance.
• Support API regulation, policy and standard.

What makes you a great fit? You have:

Passion and customer-focus which are integral to your success as your technical skills and experience.

• Ability to think creatively but also pragmatically.
• Bachelor or Master in computer science, engineering, information systems or math.
• Experience (5+ years) in leading solutions for small to medium-sized projects covering review of tactical vs strategic plans, design framework and technical risk analysis consistent with Enterprise/industry standards.
• Excellent analytic and problem solving skills
• Good collaboration, multi-tasking, facilitation capabilities
• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Background in banking or finance, knowledge of canadian mortgage and lending business processes are especially helpful
• High levels of self-motivation and stamina
• Loves brainstorming, winning, and having fun
• A focus on delivering results with benefits to the customer
• Full software development lifecycle from Development through Production Deployment.
• Experience with setting up high availability environments designed for 24X7 operations.

Experience And Familiarity With

• Finance/Bank web application development
• Microservices Architecture and 12 Factor Application Patterns
• Large-system integration patterns ( SOAP/XML, JSON/RESTful Services, etc)
• Knowledge of Swagger API Developer Tools or OAS (Open API Specification)
• Understanding API Security Best Practices and other OWASP guidelines
• AWS (Amazon Web Services) Architecture
• DevOps concepts (Continuous Integration/Delivery) and tools (Git, BitBucket, JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, Maven, Ansible, Artifactory)
• IaaS/PaaS technologies and cloud computing platforms such as Docker containers or OpenShift
• Spring and/or Spring Boot Framework
• Angular

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