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

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)