Technical Lead

Description
The successful Proponent will provide all required Senior Technical Lead programmer/analyst services associated with the project. The scope of the services may include, but are not limited to:

- Lead a team of developers in modifying existing code or creating new programs in accordance with approved design specifications, best coding practices, technical guidelines, to ensure high quality and performance of the resulting module(s);
- Provide oversight on building software releases from multiple development project streams and manage multiple tier deployment environments;
- Troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis to solve problems in an integrated environment;
- Ensure APIs and Web Services are written with clear, consistent, simple to use interfaces;
- Follow a continuous delivery pipeline with GIT source control management and Jenkins automation server;
- Participate in the implementation and integration with Government Standard Enterprise Integration Platform;
- Participate in the development of a MyPEI using multiple levels of authentication to deliver permissible digital services; and
- Provide technical leadership for other IT work (other IT work refers to work in which the internal resources of the Government may not have the necessary skills to complete the work, or the workload capacity capable of completing the work).

Expected deliverables
Providing technical oversight to a technical team using in scope services to provide support and enhance the foundational elements used to provide public digital services which includes: Drupal Content Management System, API Framework, Small Apps generator, Alfresco, and the Payment Gateway.

Work closely with the other members of the project team and plays a key role in architectural discussions, defining solutions, and solving complex technical issues. Provide guidance to the development team in implementing the approved approach and writing well designed, testable, efficient code by using best software development practices.

**Requirements**:
Programmer/Analyst - Senior Technical Lead resources must have the following experience:
1. Resources submitted must have a minimum of a 5 years’ experience directly related to web programming;
3. The Senior Technical Lead must demonstrate 5 years’ experience in:

- Writing code that was well designed, tested and put into a production environment;
- Some existing and emerging software development tools, frameworks and languages;
- Web technologies, protocols and tools;
- Working with databases and data modeling;
- Knowledge of operating systems and platforms, security and networking;
- Open source frameworks to create microservices; and
- Automation servers, CI using software such as Jenkins and Git.

4. The Senior Technical Lead must have experience developing with:

- Java/Springboot;
- Relational databases such as MySQL;
- APIs;
- Angular;
- HTML, XML, JSON;
- CSS, SASS;
- Javascript;
- OS such as Ubuntu.

5. The Senior Technical Lead must have must demonstrate five or more years’ experience in
- 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 manage the transition from analysis through to design and delivery; and
- Architecting solutions using APIs.

**6. Skills and Abilities**:

- Strong critical reasoning skills;
- Experience in supervising and mentoring teams;
- Strong written and verbal communication skills;
**7. Experience in the following will be considered an asset**:

- Experience working with government organizations;
- Experience working with Jira and managing its boards;
- Drupal Content Management System module development;
- Docker and Kubernetes container software;
- Development of black boxes;
- Load testing, load balancing, performance test, automated testing; and
- Operating Systems; and Government standard Enterprise Integration Platform (MuleSoft).