Development / Technical Lead

Position Title: Development / Technical Lead
Location: Scarborough, ON
Duration: 8 months
             
Story Behind the Need
Business group: Client Engineering – Development & Business Analysis – Retail Banking – working on retail teller applications used in branches
Project: NRT Initiative and Forms Free Teller System Applications – project to update cheques scanning processes used in branches- and pulled into other projects on a needs basis
Candidate Value Proposition:
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with one of the leading banks in Canada and get firsthand experience leading a project to delivery and enhancing retail banking applications; work in a dynamic role where they get to interact with both developers and the business.
Typical Day in Role:

• Primarily focused on strategy, problem solving and challenging our solution engineers to build amazing products and services.
• Ensuring products are well maintained by identifying and eliminating technical debt.
• Ability to showcase progress in projects/initiatives/programs, holding people accountable to their commitments and making sure we are on track for successful delivery.
• Participating in design discussions focused on building the best customer experience,
• Design and implementation of best practices/processes.
• Assisting in architectural solution designs, roadmaps and related strategies that are aligned to Enterprise Standards in the effort to modernization software applications.
• Present and leverage technical information and solutions in a way that establishes trust relationships, persuades stakeholders, and achieves understanding and consensus at all levels.
• Assess and analyze business strategy & requirements, the current technical environment and technology options to evaluate solution alternatives that meet business needs and bank strategy.
• Participating in planning and review sessions.
• Partner with multiple teams across the bank to collaborate on strategy and direction.
• Assisting senior management to enforce standards and methodology; ensuring solutions are in line with the technology roadmap and mentoring the technical team members on a project-to-project basis.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 3+ years experience as a Technical Lead
• 2+ years development experience with Java / Angular / Springboot
• 1+ year experience with Bitbucket, JIRA, Confluence
• Experience in Agile environment
• 1+ year experience working with applications hosted on cloud platforms (GCP preferred)

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Experience from banking
• Project management or scrum master experience
• Experience in MSSQL DB

Soft Skills Required:

• Flexible and ready to adapt to a dynamic environment.
• Attention to details, high standards for quality, ability to balance risk with technological advancements.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and influencing skills with ability to build and foster relationships with business users, project stakeholders, strategic technology partners and external vendors.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

Best VS. Average Candidate:
The tech lead will not be working hands-on developing code and instead will be managing the project and developers, so has to be strong in asking the right technical clarifying questions, in leading the team, and can demonstrate they have the right soft skills to be able to communicate with senior stakeholders; requires minimal hand holding and can take initiative; still has the relevant development background to be able to understand the developers’ issues and resolve them, and has that recent lead experience to help them through the coding challenges while being a leader and communicate with the business
Candidate Review & Selection
2 rounds – MS Teams Video Interviews – 1 hour
(may swap 1st and 2nd)
1st – with HM
2nd – technical panel interview – not expected to write code but will test technical knowledge
Hiring Manager’s availability to interview: ASAP