Senior Java (Spring) Tech Lead to manage a team of developers building GCP/DevOps pipelines for one of our major banking clients- 32152

Job Type: Contract
Positions to fill: 1
Start Date: Jan 02, 2024
Job End Date: Aug 01, 2024
Pay Rate: Hourly: Negotiable
Job ID: 134010
Location: Toronto
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Senior Java (Spring) Tech Lead to manage a team of developers building GCP/DevOps pipelines for one of our major banking clients- 32152


Location Address: Remote optional (or 1x/week)- Toronto

Contract Duration: 7 months (High Chance of Extension up to 2 years)

Schedule Hours: 37.5 hrs per week


Story Behind the Need

  • Business group: GWRT - GCMT Securities Operations Technology - US
  • Project: Java based Tech Lead to be hired in ASM team for the project 'Asset Servicing Modernization' (new project).


Typical Day in Role:

  • Leading team of five developers and working towards the build of GCP pipelines
  • Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance using Java and related technologies and GCP
  • Contributing to all phases of the development lifecycle
  • Leading various activities in the SDLC (requirement, design, development, testing and implementation)
  • Continuous adopting appropriate new technology to meet new requirement for the job
  • Use diplomacy, judgment, and persuasion to secure agreement and co-operation from departments involved in a project
  • Working with architecture, other upstream and downstream integration teams, other developers in their team, BAs, and QAs
  • Primarily back-end integration work, with some UI on the front end (main tech stack is Java)
  • Understand key technology aspects such as solution architecture and system integration


Must Have Skills:

  • 10+ years’ experience as a Java (Spring) Developer with experience leading Tech Teams
  • 2-5+ years’ DevOps experience (building pipelines)
  • 2+ years’ experience using Google Cloud Platform
  • Strong at relational database, comfortable with using SQL to construct complex queries
  • Familiar and experienced with Microservices architecture, including using RESTful API to develop enterprise solution


Nice-To-Have Skills:

  • Financial industry experience (corporate actions experience is preferred)
  • Agile methodology experience is preferred


Best vs Average: Top four must-haves are central to the role. While all else can be taught, we will be prioritizing those with strongest Java and GCP experience.


Degrees or certifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field required


Candidate Review & Selection:

  • Structure and Format: MS Teams Interview video interview
  • 1st round: Interview with Director or a senior manager (30 mins)
  • 2nd round: Technical panel interview with developers (60 mins)