Title: Senior Lead Solutions Architect
Employee Working Location: Remote (Canada)
Employment Status: Permanent Full-time

The Canadian Red Cross (Red Cross) - an inspirational not for profit organization, helps people and communities in Canada and around the world in times of need and supports them in strengthening their resilience. As a Canada's Best Employers 2024, we are committed to having an accessible, diverse, inclusive, and barrier-free work environment.

In this role, you will :

• Provide expert oversight with regards to application architecture and work closely with the Vice President to guide the application roadmap
• Work closely with the other managers and Directors to plan and execute the development priorities
• Maintaining and developing new features on our applications based on requirements
• Developing unit test code as part of overall quality assurance best practices.
• Participating in design and code reviews
• Collaborating with teams across the company to solve software, system design and implementation problems.
• Working with development and product management teams to define user story acceptance criteria, break down complex stories into tasks, estimates, plan and deliver.
• Converting technical and functional requirements into system level design specifications, to develop high-performance software.
• Contributing to improvements in our corporate software development methodology and practices.
• Troubleshooting and debugging new or existing software programs.
• Participating in on-call rotation to support the application and its users
• Writing or updating functional requirement documents and guides, as required

What we are looking for :

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field with a minimum of 15 years' experience in software development.
• Significant and demonstratable Expertise in software development, including complex cloud solutions leveraging SPA (single page application), Azure and Microsoft technologies.
• Javascript frameworks (vue.js, react, angular)
• State management pattern, routing, single page application
• Typescript, Javascript, HTML, CSS
• Consuming RESTful APIs
• Responsive design
• Unit tests, component tests (Jest or similar)
• Expertise in Microsoft technologies C#, .NET Core, Microsoft Azure
• Deep understanding of SOLID design principles, Ob ject-Oriented Design, Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development.
• Relational and non-relational database
• Test Driven Development
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Kubernetes and containerized applications
• Experience implementing common programming design patterns and best practices.
• Experience in agile methodologies such as SCRUM, Kanban
• Abilities to plan and track a development projects, using tools like JIRA or others.
• English (oral and written) is a must, French is an asset
• Flexibility to adapt to changing instructions and requirements
• Team player with positive attitude. Be pro-active
• Flexibility to adapt to changing instructions and requirements
• Consideration for data confidentiality and security

Working Conditions :

• As we work with and support people (managers, colleagues, beneficiaries/customers, volunteers, donors and external partners) and communities in Canada and around the world, applicants whose first language is not English may be required to perform the responsibilities of the role in English.
• Eligibility to work in Canada: At this time, we welcome applications from candidates eligible to work in Canada. If you are not a citizen or permanent resident of Canada, we encourage you to carefully review your visa to find out whether you are eligible to work in the job you are considering applying for. Refer to our FAQ for more information.
• If you are selected for this role, you will be required to complete a successful pre-employment screening process which includes a satisfactory Enhanced Police Information Check (E-PIC).