Technical Development Lead

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Company: Orangutech

Location: Ottawa, ON K1A 0A5

Description:

Technical Development Lead

Application Deadline: 31 March 2025

Department: Orangutech Operations

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Ottawa

Description

Join Orangutech as the Technical Development Lead for Pathlight.ai, our cutting-edge in-house AI/ML product. In this key role, you will lead the technical development of Pathlight.ai, ensuring a scalable and robust product architecture while shaping its future roadmap. You'll also collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to support the go-to-market strategy within our core vertical, the Government of Canada. This is an exciting opportunity to drive innovation and impact with a product that leads the way in AI/ML solutions for the public sector.

Key Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Team Lead/ Manager:

- Oversee the day-to-day development team for the Pathlight.ai product including weekly sprint huddles, task prioritization, and code reviews .

- Manage the long-term growth of the Pathlight.ai product team, including job description reviews, annual performance reviews, etc.

- Continual focus on learning and education to enhance current knowledge base and ensure application of best practices within your team

- Responsible for the creation of a 3-year resourcing roadmap based on the company growth strategy.

Product Manager & Engineering:

- Make recommendations about product development, architecture, and backlog prioritization based on input from customers, usage data, market research, and the company growth strategy.

- Be responsible for developing core components of the Pathlight.ai platform using a mixture of different cloud-based development tools

- Document, analyze, and evaluate data with a customer-centric approach, generating detailed user stories which will be the basis for future software development.

- Champion Agile development best practices.

- Support AI Developers at various stages of development to problem solve issues, prioritize tasks, and code review

- Stay up to date on changes within the Microsoft ecosystem (M365, Azure, etc.) that may affect the product roadmap.

- Attend and support with client facing meetings, collaborating with Solutions Engineers & Account Executives to understand and document client needs around Pathlight.ai

- Provide reporting and updates to Orangutech leadership team on product development progress, issues, and mitigation paths.

- Work closely with Orangutech leadership team on the ongoing Pathlight.ai development needs, deployment process, and support structure.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

- At least 5+ years of proven experience in product development in a technical capacity, preferably in a SaaS based solution environment.

- In-depth understanding of current Government of Canada (GoC) security trends, policies, and frameworks, including relevant directives, compliance requirements, and best practices for protecting sensitive information in a cloud and hybrid environment.

- Good understanding and completion of projects using Agile methodology.

- Demonstrable skills in Java, C#, .NET, JavaScript, Typescript, Python or other Cloud based development tools.

- Provide direction and develop solutions that are scalable and resilient within different cloud architectures, considering factors like load balancing, data storage, and security.

- Utilizing Azure DevOps methodologies for continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) to streamline the development process and improve delivery speed.

- Creates process instructions for development & support operations as well as technical documentation.

- Demonstrate knowledge of automated software testing methodologies such as unit testing, integration testing, functional testing, test driven development (TDD) and behaviour driven development (BDD).

- Demonstrate knowledge of creating Terraform packaging / build scripts.

- Ability to troubleshoot complex issues ranging from system resource to application stack traces.

- Track record in implementing systems with high availability, high performance, high security hosted at various data centres or hybrid cloud environments will be an added advantage.

- Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate teams in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.

- Fostering good teamwork

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.

- Experience in Microsoft related technologies such as M365, Azure, DevOps etc.

- Experience with database technologies like relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases.

- Strong understanding of AI terminology and AI model creation.

- Knowledge of Machine Learning.

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