About this role

This role is for a Technical Director that will be reporting directly to the Principal of Engineering. You will work closely with our leaders to help our clients to level up in technology innovation. You will help define the technologies that we are working with and be a source of knowledge for the engineering team to help bring ideas to life. Building a digital product is a highly collaborative effort, and as such, a strong leader with a commitment to perfection is required.

What will this role do?

• Work with the other leaders at Thrillworks to help round out ideas for our clients
• Build long-term relationships with our clients by caring about their needs and designing solutions that meet their needs and exceed their expectations.
• Design, provision, integrate and implement cloud systems.
• Supporting technical discussions and mentor other cloud engineers.
• Define Cloud Architecture design and blueprints for digital applications
• Bring innovative technologies to projects and engage our clients in concepts and strategies from the initial phases of discovery to final client delivery and handoff.
• Rapidly prototype solutions to showcase Thrillworks progressive thinking.
• Contributing to technology strategy conversations with teams and clients.
• Demonstrate a solid understanding of how to translate business goals into detailed technical design and architecture artifacts to code-level design.

What do you need for this role?

• 7+ years hands-on in backend development, API design and data modeling
• 5+ years of experience in public cloud vendors like Azure/AWS/GCP products
• 5+ years of experience with architecture concepts and patterns, including Microservices, Service Oriented Architecture, RESTful JSON, SOAP XML services, etc.
• Strong understanding of Cloud Architecture Design
• 3+ years of Nextjs
• 3+ years of experience with Cloud Management and Governance
• Expert level understanding of Cloud Native architecture and services
• Addressing technical issues, resolutions and mitigations within client agreed timelines.
• 3+ years of client facing, technical leadership experience
• React, React Native, Gatsby, and/or Flutter experience an asset
• Experience designing scalable, performant, secure digital applications and services on Cloud a strong asset

Why join?At Thrillworks, we are partners in digital acceleration. In essence, we work together to accelerate the journey toward a competitive advantage for our clients and ourselves by solving the right problems.Regardless of the department you belong to at Thrillworks, you will have a hand in the vision and realization of innovative ideas and high-quality outputs.

Clarity and autonomy. We want all of our employees to feel involved. That means ensuring everyone knows what we are working on and why; creating space for idea-sharing and creativity, and allowing people to make decisions without the constant need for approval. We are in hyper-growth mode and we hope you are as excited as we are about making an impact through technology with purpose.

Challenges and growth. At Thrillworks, we know our people are our biggest asset, and we do everything we can to make them feel recognized, heard and appreciated. Under the guidance of a supportive and patient manager, you will have the chance to build out your insights, gain exposure internally and externally, and grow your expertise.

With everything we do, these are our guiding values:

Teamwork: We are heading in the same direction, acting and working as ONE.

Curiosity:We are open-minded and hungry to improve.

Courage:We arent afraid to take chances or to admit (and learn from) mistakes.

Passion:We care about challenges, the outcomes, and our contributions to meeting them.What we do is the product of who we are and how we think. Apply now!Thrillworks is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind, as we believe in Diversity & Inclusion as a way to build stronger and successful teams. Accommodation is offered to all candidates upon request.

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