Technical Lead - Aws

Job title: Technical Lead

Terms: 6-month contract to hire (***all candidates must be willing to convert permanent***)

Location: Remote work but all candidates must be located within the Greater Toronto Area

Project Details: This is for a new project that has to do with the regulatory department, deals with retail transactions.

• In start up phases, very new coming into fresh slate

Tech Stack: Web application - tech stack using angular front-end.

• Back end is Java & spring boot.

Must have’s:

• Technical Experience or Sr. Development Background because they’ll understand software flows & how they interact.
• Really good comm skills, ability to articulate & explain thoroughly, in depth technical details & explain well.

Education/Certification Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering and or equivalent industry experience.

Additional Details

• Technical Lead is responsible for all tech being used on the teams project.
• AWS backend & front end - backend lambda
• Make sure all internal APIs are working well.
• API gateway
• Tech Used:
• Tech Lead talks with the team & make sure they’re all working
• ECS fargate, front end
• They need to be able to communicate properly, can communicate externally to APIs & the team, SSO.

Day to Day

• Planning and collaborating with dedicated pointed contacts to other teams
• Setting up whatever technical things need to be used in the project, certificates, work with API team, set up server, etc.

Your Responsibilities

• Assesses impact of design decisions to the computer solution/product/service being developed (i.e. performance, schedule, budget, downstream component/system impact, quality, etc.) and recommends alternate/creative solutions for mitigation/optimization if required.
• Identifies opportunities to strengthen the development capability, such as: sharing expertise to promote technical development, mentoring employees, building communities of practice and networks.
• Assesses and implements initiatives as required to deliver business objectives
• Assesses the costs and benefits for different solutions and recommend/decide on appropriate designs.
• Interacts with key business & technology stakeholders to define, analyze, and deliver requirements that reflect the needs of both the business and end-customers.
• Decomposes business requirements and translates them into detailed design specifications and code.
• Builds effective relationships with internal/external stakeholders and ensures alignment.
• Builds solutions that are supportable, scalable and achieve our aspiration of common assets.
• Recommends or automates approaches to streamline and integrate technological processes and/or systems to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Stays abreast of industry technical and business trends through participation in professional associations, practice communities & individual learning.
• Conducts independent analysis and assessment to resolve strategic issues.
• Recommends and implements solutions based on analysis of issues and implications for the business for informed decision-making.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts from all areas of the business including infrastructure, operations, applications, vendors and leads to seek input from and plan/coordinate development, define requirements and timelines.
• Supports production issues, includes independently completing root-cause analysis and diagnosis.

Required Core Skills

• Quickly understand organizational dynamics and management priorities, and to be able to work effectively in a fast-paced, results-driven company.
• Demonstrate strong facilitation, negotiation, interpersonal, communication and collaboration skills.
• Proven and demonstrable experience designing and implementing high volume, high availability applications with a very high degree of automation
• Demonstrated strong programming skills and hands-on experience
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering and or equivalent industry experience
• Demonstrate ability to easily deal with both abstract and concrete concepts and be able to reconcile them for the appropriate audience and context