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Senior Technical Lead

Contract:3 months to start with possibility of extension

Hybrid: Can work in the Waterloo area or GTA location

Role:

The DBTS Innovation Lab is a team of skilled professionals who dedicate their careers to accelerating the growth of the company digital platforms through the exploration of emerging technology-based solutions. We focus on identifying, testing and de-risking innovative solutions in emerging digital technology areas such as Generative AI, VR/AR, IoT and Blockchain to help our Clients achieve lifetime financial security, live healthier lives and connect with us. Come join us as we explore the future!

We are currently seeking a Technical Lead – Innovation Lab to provide technical planning, design, and development of our rapid prototypes and PoCs. The successful candidate is a team player with broad technical and problem-solving skills, is curious about emerging technology, questions the status quo and can thrive in an ambiguous and rapidly changing technology environment

Your Role

• Collaborate with a wide variety of technical and business people to understand the value proposition of the idea under exploration and design, develop and deliver quality prototype/PoCs to explore and test solution fit

• Configure and design applications and workflows using rapid prototyping to create innovative ways to advance our client first strategy

•Establish and maintain the Innovation Lab’s technical infrastructure and tooling

• Coach, mentor, and lead members of the lab development team

• Provide technical direction and guidance to projects, ensuring risks are mitigated and projects are implemented quickly and successfully

• Contribute to defining timelines and plans; analyze and estimate feasibility, cost, time and scope of our exploration projects

•Ensure coding, testing, debugging and implementation activities are completed with quality

What you'll need to succeed

• Minimum 7 years of progressive information technology experience with full application development life cycle and systems integration experience

•Strong experience with development and ops in the AWS stack including EC2, Lambda and Serverless

•Full-stack web development with advanced overall understanding of Web applications and server technologies

•Working experience with Java, J2EE, Spring MVC, Unix/Linux, middleware technologies, web and web hosting technologies

•Hands on experience using DevOps tools (BitBucket, CDD, Jenkins)

•Understanding of JavaScript and JQuery

•React and Web Accessibility experience is a bonus.

•Experience with Unit testing tools (e.g., Junit, Mockito, RESTAssured) is a bonus

•Breadth of technology experiences with the ability and desire to quickly explore and learn new technologies and help others do the same

•Experience rapidly creating solutions at the prototype level with an emphasis on user desirability and technical feasibility testing

•Curious, flexible, and adaptable with the desire to explore the application of technology to solve difficult business problems

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

•Experience in an Innovation Lab, Tech Start-up or similar development environment is a bonus

What You’ll get in Return

The client is offering a new an exciting opportunity to work on challenging projects with a competitive rate for contractors

Interested?

If you are interested in this role, please share a copy of your most updated CV in word document to [email protected]