Information Technology Lead

Full-time | Great Vancouver, BC (Hybrid)

Posted:  March 3, 2023

 

Are you a data driven, solutions focused, IT leader with strong communications skills who loves to work in a fast paced environment? Do you have strong critical thinking and decision-making skills? If YES, then Landcor has the role you are looking for!

As part of the leadership team, the Team Lead, is experienced in working with high competency, enterprise grade programming with low tolerance to error. You will find reward in leading a team that is tasked with designing, building and maintaining robust software that can function 24/7 with no down time; as well as maintaining a large database. You are team oriented, a natural mentor, and understand the day-to-day operations to lead a team in our rapidly growing environment. You will bring out the best in your capable team of technical experts, to foster collaboration and innovation.

As a Team Lead your key area of responsibility will be to assist in the day-to-day operations, coaching and mentorship of one of our growing technical team. You will leverage knowledge in front and back-end programming languages to lead/communicate requirements necessary to design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code to develop high throughput, performance critical, scalable applications. In addition, to also provide clear direction on all pertinent database management requirements following best practices always ensure critical processes are well documented.

Responsibilities:

Leadership~

  • Manage team with regards to task assignments, work arrangements and other Software Development Department expectations
  • Provide expert project-leadership and guidance to the team as a SME; Acting as point of contact for complaints and escalate issues as appropriate
  • Strong time management skills, with ability to work with aggressive deadlines when required
  • Ability to drive change with communication, influencing, leadership skills, & resource planning
  • Manage, measure, and change an Agile development process, e.g., SCRUM, Kanban
  • Collaborate with other development teams on design and implementation of features spanning multiple products
  • Conduct comprehensive testing and code reviews to ensure that code quality is maximized, and best practices are followed
  • Ability to interface with teams and customers to capture requirements, drive results, & build relationships
  • Provide afterhours support for production deployments, production downtime and installation of hardware

Development and Project Management ~

  • Lead and oversee activities of assigned projects to ensure goals and objectives are achieved within approved time frames, scope, and budget
  • Anticipate project deviations and escalate the need for immediate corrective action
  • Contribute to business strategy utilizing Information Technology & Business Systems to create business value, operational efficiencies
  • Gather requirements from operational departments to develop reports, processes, & efficiency
  • Develop and manage an enterprise application roadmap and target application architecture
  • Evaluate and recommend our application build vs buy decisions
  • Excellent troubleshooting and analytical problem-solving skills
  • Supporting technologies used to build business systems and applications that run the enterprise.

These include:

  • Web / Windows applications using C# .NET
  • ASP.NET Core, REST API
  • Azure App Service, Blob storage, Azure SQL
  • Web applications using ASP .NET MVC, HTML, and JavaScript
  • GIS and knowledge in Google Map plugins
  • SPSS/ R/ Stats tool package awareness
  • SQL Server 2014-2016
  • SIS/SSRS
  • NetSuite
  • SharePoint 2013/365 & MS Office 365

Skill Set ~

  • Experience with SQL Server and Postgres database design, optimization and writing queries.
  • Strong knowledge of Microsoft based technologies (C# .Net) or other object-oriented programming languages.
  • Experience working in a cloud environment (Azure, AWS, GCP).
  • Knowledge of front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/CSS, JavaScript, XML, ES6, jQuery) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js, Vue.js) and experience with UI/UX design.
  • Proficiency in Git, or some other distributed source control tool, and are comfortable with resolving merge conflicts and renaming branches, etc.

Education and/ or Experience ~

  • 5+ years of demonstrated experience of coding at a high competency, enterprise level with low tolerance to error.
  • 3+ years of demonstrated experience of database management at a high competency, enterprise level with low tolerance to error.
  • 2+ years of successful experience leading, mentoring, coaching a team of developers.
  • Post-Secondary Diploma/Degree specialization in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
  • Experience in real-estate / financial industry is an asset.

 

Only applications who meet the above criteria will be contacted