Jobs in Gatineau, Canada

Software Development Manager - Work from home

Location : Toronto and GTA only

Industry : Healthcare / Healthtech

What we do : Comprehensive, scalable data platform architecture consisting of interoperable tools for managing medical research data, deployable in diverse environments e.g., hospital infrastructure, public cloud, private cloud. Future medical advances will depend upon the ability to integrate and analyze large volumes of complex data from diverse sources.

• Liaise with stakeholders, data providers, and user groups in defining business requirements for the incoming data including availability, utilization, and restrictions
• Work with the operations and development teams to translate business requirements towards products and services that meet the needs of engaged stakeholders, based on robust, best‑of‑breed technologies and standards that ensure compliance, scalability, and reliability.
• Develop and deliver strategic technological vision and direction; Lead and manage the development teams to deliver Software, infrastructure and architecture.
• Work with Product team to define the priorities and release plans, to ensure the on‑time, to‑quality delivery that is consistent with Agile processes.
• Create, implement, and maintain a continuous improvement plan for Software development and its underlying infrastructure.
• Research, identify, recommend the best‑in‑class technologies or features suitable for Software products being developed.
• Mentor developers to implement best practices to motivate and organize the team.
• You should be a data and research driven individual with the ability to lead, manage and direct teams and clients to effective and efficient outcomes.
• Possess development management experience ideally gained in a R&D or start‑up setting.
• Ensure effective and transparent internal communications both within the development team and across the organization.

• Has led development efforts, gaining a thorough understanding of the vision of the product, development roadmap, system architecture and service components, and is able to consistently improve and refine the development process.
• Has acted as an effective mentor that continuously nurtures the open team culture and provides technical guidance to the team.

• The ideal candidate is an experienced software engineer that has held a team leadership role and is looking to step into a Development Manager role that combines supervisory and tactical responsibilities; or the candidate is a current Development Manager looking to make a change.
• Experienced in software development management, ideally in a R&D or start‑up setting, and has an in-depth understanding of technical architectures for the design and build of scalable data products.
• A leader who thrives in a role that combines coaching and mentoring, who is results‑driven and can inspire people to take ownership and stay motivated while influencing and guiding the team's technical decisions and priorities.

• 8 - 10 years Software Development experience and 3+ years’ experience with Software Engineering leadership at a fast‑growing organization with distributed development teams.
• Intimate knowledge of the best engineering practices, including SDLC, system architecture and design pattern, release planning, deployment, QA, version control, and code review.
• Strong experience in designing and architecting data intensive systems with high availability, scalability and resilience.
• Solid working knowledge of Azure or GCP, data ingestion flow, Data Lake and Object Storage, Data Warehouse, data modelling in RDBMS and NoSQL, event sourcing, and distributed transaction strategy.
• Strong experience with Java Spring Boot. Python‑based RESTFul API frameworks such as FastAPI.
• Ability to adopt, augment a wide variety of open‑sourced technologies.
• Experience in health and / or research data management and knowledge of data management standards and best practices is a bonus
• Broad knowledge of research data platforms, and related products services, technologies, standards, and operating models is a bonus.

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science is required, an advanced degree in the same field is an asset.