Our client, a leader in the apparrel industry, is seeking a Senior Technical Lead to join their retail technology team on a 6 month contract.

Candidates must be elligible to work in Canada, able to attend the client's office in the Lower Mainland, and work in either PST or MST time zones. 

Responsibilities:

• Providing direction and coaching software engineering squads of product development teams in all phases of the project life cycle
• Being accountable for the development of functional specifications and designs for future focused complex applications or modifying/maintaining complex existing applications
• Providing accountability for the architectural and technical direction that is in alignment with our overall architecture strategy and satisfies the business requirements
• Ensuring the design of the product solutions are cost effective, compliant, scalable and maintainable through the agile development lifecycle
• Providing accurate high level project estimates and multiple solution options for effective business decisions (and assist in articulating to non-technical stakeholders)
• Staying abreast, exploring, evaluating and recommending tools, technologies and processes to ensure the highest quality solutions are delivered
• Collaborating with multiple project teams and their members to design, develop and execute solutions to address business issues specific to the business domain, delivering solid documentation. Ensure our team is well prepared, informed and equipped to support internal and external users of our systems.
• Defines and implements Prototype solutions designed to solve complex business issues arising during project implementations or design

Qualifications:

• You have 5+ years of software design and software delivery experience
• You have 10+ years of software development experience
• You have an expert knowledge of an object-oriented language (i.e. .NET and Java), Relational and NoSQL databases and messaging
• You have strong experience with automated software build, test, and deployment systems and tools
• You have experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems (especially SAP)
• You have experience with modern distributed systems (SOA/Microservices) and a good understanding of the tools and techniques supporting those ecosystems (e.g. Enterprise Service Bus)
• You have 3+ years of recent experience working with retail technology. 

We’re an equal opportunity employer committed to increasing diversity and inclusion in today’s workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Minorities, women, LGBTQ candidates, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. If you require an accommodation, please review our accessibility policy and reach out to our accessibility officer with any questions.