Development Lead - Technical Manager

T-Net British Columbia; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in British Columbia is looking for a Development Lead - Technical Manager to oversee and lead an agile development team. The ideal candidate will have extensive Java experience, people management skills, and familiarity with Big Data technologies. This role involves designing and maintaining systems while ensuring the smooth operation of an effective development pipeline. Opportunities for career growth and skill enhancement are provided.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Java development experience in an agile environment.
• 3+ years of people management overseeing developers.
• Experience with web services technology such as REST, JSON, or Thrift.

Responsibilities

• Lead an agile development team to design and implement systems.
• Manage performance and career development of team members.
• Oversee build and deployment pipeline implementation.

Skills

Java development

People management

Big Data technologies

API development

Test Driven Development

Tools

Hadoop

Kafka

Cassandra

Ansible

Job description

Title: Development Lead - Technical Manager

Job ID: SP33113421125

Your Role:

The Development Lead oversees development resources in a small, highly focused team, responsible for delivering components in systems utilizing Big Data technology. They ensure that environments are properly managed and monitored in their areas of responsibility, including production systems. They champion the introduction of new technologies, methodologies, development styles and processes to increase overall efficiency. They work with Architects to make sure that technologies chosen by teams are properly evaluated and vetted. The Development Lead contributes to and participates in, corporate-wide peer learning.

Your Job:

• Lead an agile development team to design, implement, deploy and maintain large scale systems
• People management for 1 to 3 developers, including performance management and career development
• Initiate and produce design artifacts and spikes
• Own APIs utilized by components managed by other teams
• Oversee the implementation of a build, deployment and monitoring pipeline
• Own the strategy and implementation of performance testing
• Help improve the team through code reviews, documentation, coaching and technical guidance
• Identify and propose strategies around technical problems affecting the team
• Provide feedback on: System architecture relating to features being worked on, feature requirements in collaboration with the Product Manager; and defect reports, test plans, and test automation strategy/priorities in collaboration with the Test Lead

About You:

• 8+ years of Java development experience, building multi-threaded applications and services in an agile environment
• 3+ years of people management and leadership experience, overseeing 1 to 3 Developers
• Experience utilizing Big Data technologies, such as Hadoop, Kafka, and Cassandra, to build applications that contain petabytes of data and process millions of transactions per day
• API development experience in service and resource-oriented architectures
• Experience with web services technology such as REST, JSON, or Thrift
• Understanding of network protocols such as HTTP, TLS, TCP
• Passion for Test Driven Development
• Experience with any of the following is an asset:
  • Cloud computing, virtualization and containerization
  • Continuous integration systems
  • Deployment technology such as Ansible

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates.