Tech Lead
Deloitte
IT
Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Job Type: Permanent
Work Model: Hybrid
Reference code: 133256
Primary Location: Toronto, ON
All Available Locations: Toronto, ON; Burlington, ON; Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Fredericton, NB; Halifax, NS; Kitchener, ON; Ottawa, ON; Regina, SK; Saskatoon, SK; Vancouver, BC; Victoria, BC
Our Purpose
At Deloitte, our Purpose is to make an impact that matters. We exist to inspire and help our people, organizations, communities, and countries to thrive by building a better future. Our work underpins a prosperous society where people can find meaning and opportunity. It builds consumer and business confidence, empowers organizations to find imaginative ways of deploying capital, enables fair, trusted, and functioning social and economic institutions, and allows our friends, families, and communities to enjoy the quality of life that comes with a sustainable future. And as the largest 100% Canadian-owned and operated professional services firm in our country, we are proud to work alongside our clients to make a positive impact for all Canadians.
By living our Purpose, we will make an impact that matters.
- Have many careers in one Firm.
- Enjoy flexible, proactive, and practical benefits that foster a culture of well-being and connectedness.
- Learn from deep subject matter experts through mentoring and on the job coaching
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What will your typical day look like?
No two days look exactly the same, but a typical day blends hands-on development with team support and technical leadership. You’ll spend time writing code on more complex parts of the system, reviewing pull requests, and helping unblock engineers. You’ll also connect regularly with product, design, and architecture to align on priorities and make key technical decisions.
Throughout the day, you’ll jump into problem-solving sessions, help guide approaches, and support team members through feedback and mentorship. You’ll balance staying close to the code with thinking ahead, making trade-offs, identifying risks, and ensuring the team is set up to deliver both now and over the long term.
Key Responsibilities:
- Technical Leadership - The Tech Lead provides technical direction in partnership with the Solution Architect, guiding decisions on architecture, tooling, and overall platform design. This includes maintaining strong engineering standards and promoting best practices suited to large-scale, collaborative systems.
- Team Collaboration -The Tech Lead fosters a collaborative and productive team environment, supporting knowledge sharing, mentorship, and strong team dynamics. They act as a key connector across engineering, product, design, and architecture to ensure alignment and progress.
- Problem Solving - Tech Leads guide the team through complex challenges, supporting thoughtful decision-making and a strong problem-solving mindset. They remain hands-on, spending roughly 40–60% of their time coding and contributing to key parts of the platform.
- Code Quality - Maintaining high code quality is a core responsibility. The Tech Lead drives consistent code review practices, provides clear feedback, and ensures alignment with development standards.
- Continuous Learning - The Tech Lead promotes continuous learning and encourages the adoption of modern tools and practices, including AI-assisted development, to support efficient iteration and innovation.
- Risk Management - They proactively identify and address technical risks related to scalability, reliability, and system design, ensuring issues are surfaced early and handled through sound engineering practices.
- Decision Making - The role requires strong technical judgment to make clear, timely decisions, balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term sustainability.
- Delivery Support - Tech Leads partner with Scrum Masters and product leaders to support planning and execution, helping break down work, prioritize effectively, and deliver consistent progress.
- People Development - The Tech Lead supports the growth of engineers on the team through mentorship, feedback, and ongoing development, helping individuals build their skills and take on new challenges.
About the team
You'll be joining Wonder, Deloitte Canada's internal product foundry, a team that builds and scales proprietary software products across financial services, healthcare, utilities, and more. Wonder operates like a startup with the backing of a global firm: you'll have access to enterprise relationships and Deloitte's client base, alongside the complexity that comes with it. We're building a product-led culture inside a consulting organization, and that means the role requires someone who can advocate for good product practice while being pragmatic about the environment.
Enough about us, let’s talk about you
Must Have Experience
- Minimum 5+ years of software development experience
- Strong proficiency in Python 3.11+ with production experience building microservices.
- Deep experience with Django 5.x and Django REST Framework, including middleware, custom permissions, migrations, and ASGI deployment.
- Experience with PostgreSQL, including schema design, query optimization, and multi-tenant architectures.
- Strong understanding of REST API design, OpenAPI/Swagger, and API gateway patterns.
- Hands-on experience with core GCP services, including Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Artifact Registry, Pub/Sub, Eventarc, and Cloud Workflows.
- Familiarity with GCP networking and security concepts, including VPC, Cloud NAT, Private Service Access, Serverless VPC Connectors, IAM, service accounts, and Workload Identity Federation.
- Experience with API Gateway, Cloud Load Balancer, Cloud CDN, and Cloud Armor.
- Experience integrating LLM APIs such as Vertex AI or Gemini into backend services, including structured output and prompt engineering.
- Familiarity with RAG pipelines, vector search, and document intelligence tools such as Google Document AI or Presidio/spaCy.
- Proficiency with Terraform, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and modern Python dependency management tools like uv.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and multi-tenancy patterns.
- Experience with storage abstraction layers across cloud providers and cloud-native logging/observability.
Nice to Haves
- Experience with LangChain for document loading and text splitting
- Familiarity with Cloud Workflows (YAML DSL) for multi-step job orchestration
- Knowledge of document processing pipelines - PDF conversion, OCR, bounding-box coordinate mapping
- Experience with MkDocs for developer documentation
- Exposure to frontend collaboration with React/TypeScript teams
Total Rewards
The salary range for this position is $84,000 - $175,000, and individuals may be eligible to participate in our bonus program. Deloitte is fair and competitive when it comes to the salaries of our people. We regularly benchmark across a variety of positions, industries, sectors, targets, and levels. Our approach is grounded on recognizing people's unique strengths and contributions and rewarding the value that they deliver.
Our Total Rewards Package extends well beyond traditional compensation and benefit programs and is designed to recognize employee contributions, encourage personal wellness, and support firm growth. Along with a competitive base salary and variable pay opportunities, we offer a wide array of initiatives that differentiate us as a people-first organization. On top of our regular paid vacation days, some examples include: $4,000 per year for mental health support benefits, a $1,300 flexible benefit spending account, firm-wide closures known as "Deloitte Days", dedicated days of for learning (known as Development and Innovation Days), flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work structure.
Our promise to our people: Deloitte is where potential comes to life.
Be yourself, and more.
We are a group of talented people who want to learn, gain experience, and develop skills. Wherever you are in your career, we want you to advance.
You shape how we make impact.
Diverse perspectives and life experiences make us better. Whoever you are and wherever you’re from, we want you to feel like you belong here. We provide flexible working options to support you and how you can contribute.
Be the leader you want to be
Some guide teams, some change culture, some build essential expertise. We offer opportunities and experiences that support your continuing growth as a leader.
Have as many careers as you want.
We are uniquely able to offer you new challenges and roles – and prepare you for them. We bring together people with unique experiences and talents, and we are the place to develop a lasting network of friends, peers, and mentors.
The next step is yours
At Deloitte, we are all about doing business inclusively – that starts with having diverse colleagues of all abilities. Deloitte encourages applications from all qualified candidates who represent the full diversity of communities across Canada. This includes, but is not limited to, people with disabilities, candidates from Indigenous communities, and candidates from the Black community in support of living our values, creating a culture of Diversity Equity and Inclusion and our commitment to our AccessAbility Action Plan, Reconciliation Action Plan and the BlackNorth Initiative.
We encourage you to connect with us at accessiblecareers@deloitte.ca if you require an accommodation for the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms or other accommodations) or indigenouscareers@deloitte.ca for any questions relating to careers for Indigenous peoples at Deloitte (First Nations, Inuit, Métis).
When you apply, we will review your application using Deloitte's Global Talent Standards to ensure a consistent recruitment experience. Our recruitment advisors and hiring teams will utilize human screening combined with AI technology to help identify the skills and qualities that matter most to our business, while safeguarding your privacy and using AI responsibly.
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