Technical Lead

About

The Treasury Board Secretariat is committed to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility. Our goal is to build a public sector workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve and to promote welcoming, diverse, inclusive, respectful workplaces that are accessible to all. We welcome all interested individuals including Indigenous People, persons with disabilities, Black, racialized, ethnic and culturally diverse groups, as well as people regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identities, and gender expressions. Those looking for more information are invited to visit our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Policy.

Our Vision: Forward-looking people, service, and technology.

Our Mission: Our Team proudly delivers quality IT expertise and advice with our partners to make citizen and business-centric service possible.

The Technical Lead provides technical oversight and supervision to a development team of programmers, DevOps engineers, technical analysts, contractors, and designers providing support for and enhancing the foundational elements used to provide public and internal digital services. The incumbent will be responsible for consulting with various stakeholders and providing recommendations to further enhance applications and services to Government.

Responsibilities

• Research, establish and document best coding practices
• Review and establish a process to review code for best coding practice
• Research, establish and document technical guidelines
• Review and monitor the development of applications for multiple tier deployment environments (Dev, QA, Staging, and Production)
• Provide oversight on building software releases from multiple development project streams and manage multiple tier deployment environments
• Ensure design and architecture is following established specifications
• Provide effort estimates/timelines and set targets for complex new development projects and application upgrades, guide team members
• Must have experience setting priorities in a dynamic environment where there are competing priorities and a high urgency
• Oversee full application upgrades and patch within a full stack environment
• Author documentation to support government’s approval and decision-making process
• Work closely with other members of the application delivery team and play a key role in architectural discussions, defining solutions, and solving complex technical issues

Minimum Qualifications

• Must have a University degree in computer science or related discipline with major IT course work; or
• A two-year IT diploma from a recognized College or University with a focus on programming and application development
• Demonstrated equivalencies will be considered
• Minimum 7 years experience in the IT field combined with supervisory experience or training while demonstrating advancement in a variety of roles
• Strong and demonstrable critical reasoning skills
• Experience in supervising and mentoring teams
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and strong initiative to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes
• Demonstrated Continuous Learning
• Applicants must have a good previous work and attendance record
• The successful candidate must provide a satisfactory Criminal Records Check prior to beginning employment
• Another condition is a satisfactory Credit Check. You will be asked to complete a consent form authorizing HR to request a credit check through our third-party provider

Other Qualifications

• Ensuring best coding practices are followed; review and evaluate metrics and implement corrective actions if required
• Validating troubleshooting and root cause analysts to solve existing and prevent problems in an integrated environment
• Source control management systems and continuous integration/deployment environments
• Knowledge of operating systems and platforms, security and networking
• Containerization, orchestration, and cloud infrastructure
• Working with Government organizations
• Considerable experience:
  • Delivering multiple complex simultaneous system development projects from design through to release
  • Evaluating risks and predicting potential problems
  • Understanding and contributing to the technical solution from design through to code level
  • Working closely with other team members to produce accurate delivery estimates and managing the transition from analysis through to design and delivery
  • Architecting solutions using APIs
  • Load testing, load balancing, performance test, automated testing
• Extensive experience:
  • Some existing and emerging software development tools, frameworks and languages
  • Web technologies, protocols and tools
  • Working with databases and data modeling

Benefits

• Eligible for paid vacation and sick leave, as per the UPSE Collective Agreement
• Health and dental benefits after 6 months
• Hybrid options within PEI
• Flexible working hours
• Employee assistance program