Digital Technical Delivery Lead- 2026-85

emergiTEL Inc.; Canada; Remote; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

ATB Financial in Canada seeks a Digital Technical Delivery Lead to guide delivery teams across planning, design and development within the Digital Program. You will collaborate with internal staff and a 3rd party partner to advance DevOps practices and ensure technical feasibility aligns with business goals.

The role requires strong leadership, governance, and communication skills, with a focus on modern tooling, automated testing, and secure, scalable solutions across vendor and internal teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering or equivalent.
• Extensive software engineering experience, with emphasis on financial services.
• Experience with API integrations, security best practices, and middleware.
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspace is a plus.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to align technical work with business goals.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical designs and align with solution designs.
• Lead cross-functional delivery teams, including internal staff and external partners.
• Assess current DevOps practices and implement modern tooling with automation and security.
• Coordinate delivery across vendor and internal squads and apply standardized CI/CD pipelines.
• Balance long-term strategy with short-term delivery imperatives.

Skills

Software engineering experience

DevOps modernization

API integrations

Security best practices

Google Cloud Platform

Systems thinking

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering or equivalent

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Digital Technical Delivery Lead- 2026-85

Posting ID: 2026-85
Position Title: Digital Technical Delivery Lead- 2026-85
Project Description: The Digital Program
Team size: Large (15+)
Number of Years Experience: 10
Level of Communication: 5
Anticipated Weekly Hours : 40
Work Location: Remote, anywhere in Canada working Mountain Time business hours
If Hybrid, How often will they be expected onsite?: Only for team meetings
Is travel expected?: Y
Possibility of Extension?: yes -Possibility for extension

Technical Delivery Lead ATB is looking for a Digital Technical Delivery Lead. This role will report into an enterprise Digital Program and focuses on leading delivery teams in the planning, design, development in support of the project. This is a technical leadership role responsible for guiding key technology decisions and developing technical specifications that can be utilized by development teams. A key accountability will be leading a cross-functional team of internal ATB employees and a 3rd party Digital partner in assessing and building out new DevOps practices and tooling. Additionally the role is responsible for coordinating delivery of work across vendor and internal delivery teams.

Role

• Technical Design Specifications: Provide technical designs in alignment with supplied solution designs. This includes home-grown solutions, configuration and customization in vendor/partner platforms, and integration to various systems in and out of the ATB landscape.
• DevOps Modernization: Work with a team spanning both internal resources and an external partner to assess current DevOps practices and tooling, form recommendations and implement new, modern tooling with built-in automation and security to enable digital development at pace.
• QA & Shift-Left Governance: Lead QA modernization by implementing shift-left testing principles, automating unit and regression testing early in the SDLC, and setting standardized quality merge gates to minimize late-stage defects.
• Dependency Mapping & Alignment: Establish proactive dependency mapping across delivery squads and integrate review gates during planning to reduce late dependency discovery and ensure smooth cross-squad coordination.
• Technical Leadership: Act as the bridge between project managers, architects, vendor delivery teams, software engineers, and product stakeholders to ensure technical feasibility and alignment with business goals.
• Vendor & Tool Selection: Assist the solution architect and other team members in the evaluation and recommend tools and platforms that may best serve the initiative.
• Vendor Performance Management: Manage vendor partner delivery standards, ensuring compliance with established code review SLAs, established DevOps practicas, and standardized CI/CD pipelines.

Prototyping: Build Proof of Concepts PoCs to demonstrate the viability of new tools and practices in the technical landscape.

Style/Behavior

• Must be problem solver, self-starter, work with limited supervision, a team player and able to clearly communicate with other team members, management and user community, and effectively work with external vendors and technology partners.
• Work with stakeholders to derive and communicate timeline expectations for deliverables.
• Balances competing priorities while adhering to deadlines and aligning architecture to achieve value delivery.
• Understanding of business fundamentals, including business process management, customer centricity and value creation, and business problem solving.

Desired skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering or equivalent.
• Extensive experience in software engineering, with preference on candidates with experience in the financial industry, associated technology and operations.
• Experience with API integrations, security best practices, and middleware.
• Familiarity with Google Suite of products, including Google Cloud Platform would be a benefit.
• Systems thinking; ability to understand a solution in the broader context of ATBʼs services delivery, long term visions, and business capabilities.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, prioritization and problem-solving skills.
• High degree of flexibility and ability to work with employees at all levels of the organization with diverse backgrounds.
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Strong consulting skills (relevant/technical); recognized as a thought leader.
• Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of recommendations and decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and incorporate cyber security, risk, fraud and compliance requirements into designs.