We are looking for a seasoned Senior Tech Lead / Development Manager to guide multiple product squads building a resilient, scalable, and secure cloud‑native settlement platform. This role combines architectural leadership, technical oversight, and hands‑on collaboration with senior engineers.

Location : Montreal

Type : Hybrid, 3 days on site per week

Key Responsibilities
Define and govern event‑driven microservice architectures and integration patterns.
Drive scalability, resilience, and performance using contemporary distributed‑system patterns.
Standardize REST APIs and messaging strategies across teams.
Lead data architecture spanning relational, NoSQL, caching, and data privacy considerations.
Champion security best practices (OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, secrets management, encryption).
Establish observability standards-metrics, logging, tracing, SLIs/SLOs.
Enhance DevOps maturity (CI/CD, IaC, Kubernetes/AKS, blue/green & canary deployments).
Enforce robust testing practices (unit, integration, contract, performance, chaos).
Support cost optimization, capacity planning, and operational governance.
Mentor engineering leads while contributing hands‑on to key technical decisions.

Required Skills




10+ years in distributed systems, including 4+ years in engineering leadership.
Robust expertise in Java , Spring Boot , REST, and high‑volume messaging (Kafka or similar).
Solid experience with public cloud environments (preferably Azure) including compute, networking, identity, data services, and monitoring.
Deep knowledge of relational/NoSQL databases and caching models.
Solid grounding in security, observability, DevOps tooling, and container orchestration.
Experience with contract testing, cloud‑native performance testing, and resilience engineering.

Nice to Have
Exposure to Angular/React for end‑to‑end system oversight.
Experience with stream processing frameworks (Flink, Spark, kSQL).
Background in audit‑ready environments or globally distributed platforms.

Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
Proven track record leading high‑performing engineering teams delivering cloud‑based production systems.
Excellent communication and architectural decision‑making skills.
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📌 Senior Tech Lead Montreal
🏢 Highspring
📍 Montreal