Technical Team Leader

Societe Generale; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Societe Generale Canada seeks a technical team lead to drive development for XRM/MRC in AMER, shaping the evolution of critical risk platforms within a modern Azure-based ecosystem. You will lead engineers, align delivery with business needs, and maintain stability while migrating from VMR to the Metric Platform.

You will balance strategic vision with pragmatic delivery, collaborate with Front Office users, and foster innovation through agent-assisted development and data-centric design.

Qualifications

• Seasoned hands-on technical lead with senior development background.
• Experience designing and evolving distributed systems (event-driven, data platforms).
• Proven track record leading teams while coding and reviewing work.
• Ability to balance priorities across run, build, and transformation initiatives.
• Strong communication with business stakeholders and end users.
• Ownership mindset and commitment to continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor engineers, ensure high engineering standards and code reviews.
• Drive VMR to Metric Platform transformation and modern data-driven initiatives.
• Own technical direction and architecture across Azure-based solutions and target platform.
• Collaborate with Market Risk and Front Office users to prioritize backlog.
• Oversee Level 3 support, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Strengthen DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and security practices.
• Support adoption of the Metric platform and upskill on new technologies.

Skills

Hands-on leadership

Mentoring

DevOps and CI/CD

Agile practices

Architectural design

Stakeholder collaboration

Communication

Tools

Azure

Java

Kafka

Spark

Spring Boot

.NET 10

Job description

ABOUT THE JOB:

Reference 26000DPJ

Responsibilities

ABOUT THE JOB:

At Société Générale, Global Banking Technology & Operations (GBTO) Canada plays a key role in delivering mission-critical services to the investment and corporate banking businesses. We are at the heart of the bank’s transformation, driving agility, promoting a strong engineering and data culture, and accelerating decision-making through modern, industrialized delivery models. Our teams work across business lines and geographies to build scalable, innovative solutions.

Within this environment, the Market Risk and Collateral (MRC) team is part of the Cross Risk Metrics (XRM) department. We design and develop platforms that support the Market Risk function (RISQ), enabling the monitoring and control of key risk metrics and limits applied to Front Office activities.

As part of the AMER region, you will join a growing and high-impact team working on strategic initiatives. Reporting to the Regional Head of MRC, you will lead development activities for XRM/MRC in AMER, contributing directly to the evolution of critical risk platforms and strengthening the region’s role in global delivery.

YOUR MISSION

Lead people, transform platforms, and shape the future of Market Risk technology. As a Technical Team Lead, your mission is to drive technical excellence and deliver business impact across Market Risk within a global banking environment.

You will lead and inspire a team of engineers while remaining hands‑on, contributing to design, development, and code reviews. You will foster collaboration and continuous improvement through agile practices (stand-ups, retrospectives, backlog reviews), while guiding architectural decisions across a modern Azure-based platform.

A key responsibility is to drive the evolution from the Volcker Metrics Repository (VMR) to the strategic Metric Platform (MPT). This is a progressive migration, where key features move to MPT while VMR remains critical and must be maintained in the coming years. You will define and execute this roadmap, balancing innovation with stability.

This includes transitioning from an Azure .NET 3-tier architecture to a modern data-driven ecosystem (Java, Kafka, Data Lake, Spark). As a hands‑on leader, you will support the team in building expertise and adopting scalable, event‑driven design principles.

Working closely with end users, you will prioritize features and align delivery with business needs, while championing innovation such as agent-assisted development.

Over time, you will help strengthen AMER’s autonomy and expertise, making it a key contributor to global initiatives and adoption of the Metric Platform.

What will be your DAY-TO-DAY?

In this context, you will oversee the following missions:

• Lead and empower the team through agile practices (stand-ups, retrospectives, backlog reviews, sprint planning), fostering ownership, collaboration, and high engineering standards via code reviews and mentoring.
• Drive the VMR to Metric Platform transformation, guiding the team through the shift from an Azure .NET 3-tier architecture to a modern ecosystem (Java, Kafka, Data Lake, Spark), and embedding event‑driven and data‑centric design principles.
• Own technical direction and architecture decisions, ensuring consistency between current Azure-based solutions and the target platform while balancing short‑term delivery with long‑term strategy.
• Partner closely with Market Risk and Front Office end users and stakeholders to prioritize the backlog, refine requirements, and ensure delivery of high‑impact PnL and risk features.
• Ensure platform stability and reliability by leading Level 3 support activities, investigating complex production issues, and driving root‑cause analysis and continuous improvement.
• Strengthen DevOps and engineering excellence, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, improving automation, managing code quality (SonarQube), addressing vulnerabilities, and ensuring compliance with internal standards.
• Develop team capabilities and foster innovation, supporting the adoption of the Metric platform, upskilling on new technologies, and introducing modern practices such as agent‑assisted development.

TECHNICAL Stack

• Software Craftsmanship best practices: DDD, BDD, TDD, Design Patterns, Clean code
• Language: Java 17 (or latest LTS), C# 10, C# 14
• Multithreading, concurrent programming
• Framework: Spring Boot (with Spring MVC for REST APIs), .Net 10
• Dependency Injection: Spring Framework core features, .Net DryIoC
• BigData: Spark, Kafka (Event Hub), Azure Datalake
• Database Access: Spring Data JPA with Hibernate ORM, Microsoft Entity Framework
• Database: PostgreSQL (or MySQL, Oracle), Azure SQL Database
• Security: Spring Security with JWT or OAuth2
• Build Tool: Maven
• Testing: JUnit 5, Mockito for unit and integration tests, NUnit, MSTest
• API Documentation: Springdoc OpenAPI (Swagger UI)
• DevOps: Github Actions, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux (On premise Server)
• Monitoring: ELK stack, Helm, Grafana
• Cloud: Azure

Required

Profile required

Skills and Qualifications

Must Have

• Strong experience as a hands‑on Technical Lead or Senior developer, ideally in a banking or financial environment
• Proven ability to design, build, and evolve distributed systems with modern architectures (event‑driven, data platforms)
• Experience leading a team while remaining hands‑on (coding, design, reviews)
• Ability to manage priorities across run (support), build (features), and transformation initiatives
• Strong communication skills and ability to interact directly with business stakeholders and end users
• A mindset focused on ownership, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing

Leadership & Soft Skills

• Ability to mentor and grow developers, fostering autonomy, accountability, and technical excellence
• Strong focus on team development, coaching on both technical and functional topics
• Comfortable driving change and leading transformation in a complex and evolving environment
• Ability to balance strategic vision with pragmatic delivery
• Curiosity and enthusiasm for learning new technologies and exploring innovative practices (e.g., agent‑assisted development)

Technical & Functional Skills

• Experience with event‑driven architectures and distributed systems
• Strong understanding of data platforms and batch/stream processing
• Solid SQL skills and ability to analyze and troubleshoot data issues
• Exposure to Market Risk, PnL, or Investment Banking environments is a strong advantage

LANGUAGE:

Ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing, is a requirement as the person in this position will need to collaborate regularly with colleagues and partners in the United States.

Due to US Federal Securities law that may apply to this position, candidates who will apply for this position may be required to submit to an enhanced background screening, including the collection of their fingerprints by a third‑party vendor selected by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA").

Business insight

Societe Generale is committed to offering an inclusive recruitment experience to all candidates. If you require any reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let our Recruiters know.

OUR CULTURE:

At Societe Generale, we live by our 4 core values of commitment, responsibility, team spirit and innovation. We are engaged and demonstrate consideration for others. We act ethically and with courage. We focus our talent and energy on collective success. We experiment and propose new ideas. This way, we maximize our ability to serve client needs and anticipate market changes. Societe Generale is committed to strengthening bonds with colleagues, communities, and the world in which we live, because relationships are at the heart of how we operate. For more information about our Culture and Conduct initiatives, please visit this link (https://americas.societegenerale.com/en/careers/get-know-culture/)

D&I:

Our Diversity & Inclusion Mission: Recruit, develop, advance, and retain a diverse workforce that is united in our efforts to enhance our competitive position and deliver innovative solutions to our clients.

Our Diversity & Inclusion Vision:

• Engaged workforce that is demographically diverse in a way that reflects the communities in which we operate
• Inclusive culture and workplace that recognizes employees' unique needs and utilizes their diverse talents
• Engage our community and marketplace, and position the organization to meet the needs of all its clients

For more information about our D&I initiatives, please visit this link (https://americas.societegenerale.com/en/careers/get-know-diversity/)