Technical Lead, Software Development, Software Engineer

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Requisition

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Global Wealth Engineering client technology team is transforming the digital experience for its clients. The team partners and works closely with the Scotia Digital team to bring world-class digital experiences for all Scotia Wealth Management channels. The team plays a key role to help investor manage their investments and reach their financial goals.

Global Wealth Engineering Technology Team is looking for an energetic and results-oriented Technical Lead to join our team to help build our platform for our Candian wealth customers.

We’re looking to fill our team with influencers, makers, creators and leaders who are flexible, curious, adventurous, versatile and responsive; and who are ready to roll up their sleeves in a collaborative and productive environment to get things done.

Hands-on expectation:
You will remain deeply technical—writing code, reviewing pull requests, troubleshooting production issues, and guiding implementation—while also leading design decisions and enabling team execution.

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

• Lead technical decision‑making for the scrum teams, collaborating with solutions architects and other technical leads.
• Develop and enforce coding standards and testing approaches.
• Guide your team through technical issues and challenges
• Delegate work and assignments to team members
• Collaborate with delivery lead to plan milestones, successfully execute software delivery, and escalate issues as needed.
• Work closely with product owners and BSAs to plan next-in-priority technical items in the backlog.
• Design and develop API based on Cloud solutions, such as Microsoft Azure, Google GCP
• Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications
• Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution
• Assure quality security and compliance requirements are met for supported area
• Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment
• Working experience in performance analysis and tuning
• Provide estimates on activities/tasks required to perform design, coding and unit testing
• Complete technical documentation and training material
• Provides production support for applications maintained

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We’d love to work with you if you have:

Must Have

Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Extensive experience building enterprise-scale APIs and microservices using Java and Spring Boot.
• Strong experience with REST/JSON, OpenAPI/Swagger, and secure API design.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure or GCP) and containerization using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and Dev Ops practices.
• Experience with SQL databases such as Azure SQL or MS SQL.
• Proven ability to lead technically while remaining hands-on.
• Proven experience in Java back-end development with the following technologies: JDK 17+, Git Hub, REST, Spring, Spring Boot, Apache CXF, Microservices, SOAP, Swagger, Apache / Tomcat, SQL
• Experience in application monitoring software, including Dynatrace, Splunk or their equivalent tools.
• Practical experience designing and developing microservices using modern practices/techniques including Domain-Driven Design, event driven architectures, reactive programming and distributed caching

Nice-To-Have

Skills:

• Experience with Continuous Development or Continuous Integration is a plus
• Knowledge of distributed system design patterns like distributed configuration, service discovery, routing, service-to-service calls, circuit breakers
• Knowledge of Apache/Confluence Kafka, Kafka topics, brokers, stream processing and event streaming platforms
• Experience in batch process development/support using shell script in Unix/Linux

What's in it for you?

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