Technical Architect

Technical Architect

Designated office:

Eastlink

6080 Young Street

Halifax, NS

This position is:

On-site - working all 5 days per week in the Office 

Eastlink is a family owned, entrepreneurial and innovative company headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia. We take great pride in being a leader in delivering creative competitive, customer focused telecommunications solutions, and connecting our customers to the things and people that matter most.  Serving a customer base across seven provinces, our advanced solutions include Internet, Mobile, TV, Telephone, Security and Automation, Data Communications, and exclusive locally produced programming on Eastlink Community TV.

We embrace diversity, inclusion, equity, and accessibility throughout all levels of the organization and encourage members of equity groups to self-identify during the application process.

Key responsibilities:

• Designing and developing enterprise solutions to effectively meet business needs.
• Developing new features and integrations for a variety of internal and external business platforms, including Wireline and Mobile provisioning platforms.
• Working with clients to solve complex problems, providing options while ensuring they have the tailored solutions required to meet their objectives.
• Guide and mentor a development team to:
  • Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
  • Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
  • Establish and promote best-practices for software development

Skills & qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer or equivalent role.  Demonstrated ability to create software solutions.
• 2+ years with enterprise architectures and designing large scale solutions.
• Proficient understanding of Spring Boot, Apache Camel, Jboss EAP, HAProxy.
• Diverse experience in API design and usage (HTTP/JSON, HTTP/XML, SOAP, REST)
• Sound knowledge of networking and infrastructure principals and best practices
• Experience with application containerization (Docker ideally)
• Experience with version control systems (preferably, Git)
• Experience working as a member of a Scrum development team

What does success look like in this role?

• Ability to effectively communicate and teach highly technical concepts
• An able team leader who mentors team members
• Driven to champion new technologies within our organization
• Security focused
• Always thinking about and contributing to how we can do things better

Why Choose Eastlink?

Eastlink operates in a culture of continuous improvement through listening, learning, and adapting, which enables us to respond quickly to the evolving needs of both employees and customers. We recognize that our truly greatest competitive edge is our people and that delivering a great customer experience begins with a great employee experience. Our philosophy of developing and training our team “on the ground” not only helps to create a strong onboarding experience but also readies employees for future growth opportunities within the organization.  

Get your career started with us and stay with us, your journey begins here!