Lead Engineer

LanceSoft, Inc.; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

LanceSoft, Inc. is seeking a pragmatic, delivery-focused engineering leader to design secure, scalable solutions and guide implementation at strategic and hands-on levels.

You will partner with product, marketing, compliance, risk, vendor teams, and internal engineering groups to deliver secure, scalable, and well-governed technology solutions, focusing on automation, stability, data integrity, and business enablement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/Engineering/IT.
• 7+ years of technology delivery or SaaS platform engineering experience.
• Hands-on leadership for enterprise SaaS or marketing tech platforms, including onboarding, integration, and production support.
• Strong DevOps knowledge: automation, CI/CD, release management, monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery for enterprise SaaS platforms with focus on security, scalability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with product, marketing, compliance, risk, and vendor teams to align tech with business goals.
• Improve operational processes and governance across platforms and teams.

Skills

Engineering leadership

DevOps discipline

SaaS platforms

API integration

Security integration

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Networking basics

Kubernetes

Git-based workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT or equivalent

Tools

Azure Key Vault

AWS KMS

Kubernetes

GitHub workflows

Job description

The ideal candidate is a pragmatic, delivery-focused engineering leader who is comfortable operating at both strategic and hands-on levels. They should be able to design secure and scalable solutions, guide implementation, troubleshoot complex issues, improve operational processes, and build trusted relationships across technology, marketing, compliance, risk, and vendor organizations. The candidate should bring curiosity, ownership, strong judgment, and a continuous-improvement mindset to help evolve the Martech and SocialTech platform ecosystem.

The successful candidate will partner with product owners, marketing stakeholders, compliance, cybersecurity, risk, vendor teams, and internal engineering groups to deliver secure, scalable, reliable, and well-governed technology solutions. The role requires a strong blend of engineering depth, DevOps discipline, platform ownership, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement mindset, with a focus on automation, operational stability, data integrity, and business enablement.

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of technology delivery, software engineering, SaaS platform engineering, digital marketing technology, or enterprise application support experience.
• Hands-on experience leading technical delivery for enterprise SaaS or marketing technology platforms, including onboarding, configuration, integration, lifecycle management, and production support.
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices, including automation, source control, release management, CI/CD, environment management, monitoring, and operational readiness.
• Experience with API-based integrations, REST services, JSON, authentication patterns, and troubleshooting integration failures across distributed systems.
• Working knowledge of enterprise identity, access management, and security integration patterns such as SSO, OAuth, OIDC, SAML, roles, entitlements, and provisioning workflows.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis skills, with the ability to resolve complex technical issues in production environments.
• Ability to translate stakeholder needs into technology requirements, solution options, implementation plans, and clear delivery outcomes.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage technical teams, non-technical stakeholders, vendors, product owners, risk partners, and senior leaders.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments with a strong sense of ownership, prioritization, collaboration, and accountability.
• Understanding of security, privacy, data governance, change management, and operational risk controls in a regulated enterprise environment.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, key management, encryption, data pipelines, web application infrastructure, networking, proxies, load balancing, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, with hands-on experience in web proxy and load-balancing technologies.
• Experience with containerization, Kubernetes, Podman, Git-based development workflows, GitHub Copilot, or other AI-assisted development tools.
• Hands-on experience with Azure Key Vault, Azure Managed HSM, AWS KMS, or AWS CloudHSM, including IAM policies, key lifecycle management, encryption-at-rest concepts, audit logging, and troubleshooting key access or integration issues.
• Experience in creating or contributing to enterprise architecture documentation, including C4 models, security architecture designs, ADRs, integration diagrams, data flow diagrams, and control-aligned design artifacts for regulated technology environments.

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience with Adobe Experience Cloud capabilities such as Adobe Experience Platform, Real-Time CDP, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target, Adobe Journey Optimizer, Adobe Workfront, Adobe Tags, Web SDK, XDM schemas, datasets, destinations, and identity services.
• Experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Stensul, Sprinklr, Proofpoint Patrol, or similar enterprise marketing, email, social media, social publishing, compliance supervision, or client engagement platforms.
• Knowledge of customer data platforms, segmentation, personalization, campaign activation, marketing analytics, attribution, experimentation, and digital engagement measurement.
• Adobe, Salesforce, cloud, cybersecurity, Agile, or DevOps certifications.
• Working knowledge of bilingual business environments, including the ability to communicate effectively in English and French where required.