Development Team Lead

This is a hybrid position (4 days per week in office and 1 day remote).

Office

Location:

1 Presidents Choice Cir, Brampton, ON L6Y 5S5 (near Hwy. 407 and Mississauga Rd)

Lifemark Health Group (LHG) is a market leader in customized healthcare solutions. With over 20 years of service excellence, LHG is one of the largest, most trusted, and most comprehensive providers in Canada. As a national healthcare company, LHG employs over 5,000 highly trained clinicians, medical experts, and team members in almost 400 locations coast-to-coast and continues to grow both organically as well as through acquisitions.

With that growth is a vision to be the most innovative healthcare provider in community rehabilitation, workplace health and wellness, and medical assessment services. Lifemark was acquired by Loblaw Companies on May 10, 2022.

Lifemark Health Group is seeking an experienced Development Team Lead to join our Application Development Team in a permanent full-time position.

Reporting directly to the Director, Technology Delivery and Enablement, you will provide hands‑on technical leadership and day‑to‑day guidance to a team of application developers responsible for developing, modernizing, and supporting critical business applications across Lifemark's national operations.

As a key member of the Application Development leadership team, you will work closely with the Director and other Development Team Leads to coordinate development priorities, team capacity, technical delivery, and engineering practices across the application portfolio.

You will contribute directly to solution architecture and complex development work while championing cloud‑native development, Dev Sec Ops , CI/CD, automated testing, observability, application security, and AI‑assisted software development.

• Provide day-to-day technical leadership and direction to a team of application developers.
• Lead and contribute to solution design, application architecture, implementation approaches, and engineering standards.
• Translate business and solution requirements into practical, scalable, secure, and maintainable technical designs.
• Remain hands‑on with development, particularly for complex solutions, prototypes, shared components, and challenging technical issues.

• Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, mentorship, and technical direction to Senior, Intermediate, and Junior developers.
• Coordinate work assignments and help developers understand priorities, expectations, dependencies, and delivery commitments.
• Monitor team workload and capacity and work with the Director and other Team Leads to balance resources across priorities.
• Provide regular feedback and support the Director with performance management, goal setting, career development, recruitment, onboarding, and succession planning.
• Promote consistency across teams by collaborating with other Team Leads on standards, practices, tools, and ways of working.

• Partner with the Director and other Team Leads to translate portfolio priorities into actionable development plans.
• Lead technical estimation, planning, sequencing, and assignment of development work within the team.
• Track delivery commitments and proactively manage technical risks, dependencies, blockers, and quality concerns.
• Provide the Director with clear visibility into delivery status, capacity, risks, dependencies, and required decisions.
• Coordinate technical activities across development, Dev Ops, QA, architecture, security, infrastructure, data, business teams, and third‑party partners.

• Guide modernization of legacy applications toward…