It Team Lead

Job Title:
IT Team Lead
Job ID:
91222
Location:
Toronto, Ontario
Overview:
Our client provides specialist financial services to alternative investment funds, investors, multinationals and private clients worldwide. With over 10,000 employees in 45 countries they innovative solutions to meet clients’ evolving needs and deliver exceptional service. Continuous investment in learning means you will work with people who are among the best in the industry. This is an opportunity to excel in an environment that genuinely supports your personal and professional development. You will be working in a cross-functional team, using agile methodologies to build on-prem and cloud native applications for the financial services industry. We are looking for true team players who can work beyond their specialty to help the team deliver. Every team member is responsible for the quality of the product and should be willing to work on any tasks needed, be it front-end, back end, test automation, deployment automation, etc. The successful candidate will use their experience and talent to help drive the delivery of the system, introduce new tech and guide the evolution of our applications.
What you will be doing:
You will be responsible for all team activities such as Sprint Planning,Sprint Execution,Daily Scrum,Sprint Review,Sprint Retrospective
The role will have approximately 4-5 direct reports.
Lead development of entire application
Have strong technical skills to come up with system designs
Perform peer reviews and ensure the quality of the team’s work
Responsible for code integration and code deployment of existing modules as well as provide new pipelines for new modules (CI/CD)
Have strong background in AWS services and practices.
Be responsible for delivery of entire project from all perspectives. This includes, development, testing, devops, support and architecture design
Break-down complex functionalities into granular tasks and stories
Stay current on emerging technologies and be able to match them to needs when required
What you must have:
You must have a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
8+ years of experience with software engineering
3+ years of experience with NodeJS + Typescript
3+ years of experience with React
2+ years of experience in team leadership role
2+ years of experience developing and deploying application to run on AWS infrastructure
2+ years of experience working with various AWS services. Must have strong understanding of multiple AWS services and how to deploy/monitor them.
Strong skills developing server-side applications using Node.Js frameworks such as or similar to NestJS/Hono
Solid understanding of HTML5, ES6, CSS3, JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks
Experience with source code management such as GIT
Strong skills with relational databases (ideally PostgreSQL)
Experience working with Agile teams
Solid understanding and demonstrated proficiency with core software development processes – debugging, code tuning, code management and branching, coding styles and refactoring
Must be self-motivated and driven, with strong analytical, problem solving, and communication skills.
Knowledge of financial industry, specially accounting / general ledger will be preferred.
Salary/Rate Range:
CAD $135,000 to CAD $175,000
Other Information:
Permanent job
Hybrid – 3 days/week onsite downtown Toronto
40 hour work week
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