Platform Tech Lead - AI, Cloud & Scale Solutions

Nutrien; Saskatoon; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Purpose-Driven Work

Excellent Benefits

Career Growth

Employee Support

Strong Culture

Job summary

Nutrien is seeking a Platform Technical Lead to drive design, delivery, and sustainment of custom application platforms within the IT organization. You will lead cross-functional teams across onshore and offshore engineers, ensure scalable and secure solutions, and champion AI-enabled delivery practices to boost productivity and code quality.

The role requires 7+ years in software development, strong .NET Core and React.js expertise, cloud/ AWS experience, and a collaborative, results‑oriented

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of professional software development experience, including ownership or technical leadership of production applications in a sustainment or platform delivery environment
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a technical lead by guiding engineers, reviewing solution designs, making sound technical decisions, and balancing sustainment priorities with new project and feature delivery
• A growth mindset and willingness to embrace AI-enabled software development practices, including leveraging AI‑DLC tools and workflows to improve engineering productivity, quality, and delivery speed
• Strong hands‑on experience building and supporting full‑stack applications, including backend services using .NET / .NET Core, modern front‑end development using React.js, API design, data persistence, and integration patterns
• Experience supporting cloud‑based solutions on AWS, with an understanding of cloud‑native design, operational reliability, performance scalability, and security best practices
• Strong production support mindset, including experience with incident resolution, troubleshooting, root‑cause analysis, defect management, technical debt reduction, and continuous improvement
• Proficient with Git‑based version control, pull request reviews, CI/CD pipelines, Agile/Scrum delivery, and tools such as Jira
• Ability to collaborate effectively with business partners, product owners, architects, vendors, and distributed engineering teams to translate business needs into secure, maintainable technical solutions

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Platform Technical Lead for assigned custom application platforms, providing technical direction, delivery oversight, and day-to-day leadership for sustainment and enhancement work
• Lead sustainment activities across production applications, including incident response, root‑cause analysis, defect resolution, performance optimization, cybersecurity remediation, and platform upgrade readiness
• Partner with product owners, business stakeholders, architects, and delivery teams to assess priorities, shape technical solutions, and deliver new projects, features, and minor enhancements
• Own technical quality across the platform by reviewing designs, approving pull requests, enforcing engineering standards, and ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and supportable
• Coordinate onshore and offshore engineering work, ensuring clear expectations, effective knowledge transfer, and smooth execution across time zones and vendor partners
• Champion continuous improvement and AI-enabled delivery practices, including leveraging AI‑DLC tools and workflows to improve productivity, code quality, and delivery speed while maintaining human oversight

Skills

.NET Core

React.js

API design

Data persistence

Integration patterns

AWS

Git

CI/CD

Agile/Scrum

Jira

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

AWS

Git

CI/CD

Jira

Job description

Nutrien is seeking a Platform Technical Lead to drive design, delivery, and sustainment of custom application platforms within the IT organization. You will lead cross-functional teams across onshore and offshore engineers, ensure scalable and secure solutions, and champion AI-enabled delivery practices to boost productivity and code quality.

The role requires 7+ years in software development, strong .NET Core and React.js expertise, cloud/ AWS experience, and a collaborative, results‑oriented