Technical Team Lead

Your daily missions

About the position

At Société Générale, Global Banking Technology & Operations (GBTO) Canada plays a key role in providing critical services to investment banking and corporate banking activities. We are at the heart of banking transformation, promoting agility, fostering a strong engineering and data culture, and accelerating decision-making through modern and industrialized delivery models. Our teams work beyond business lines and geographical areas to design innovative and scalable solutions.

In this environment, the Market Risk and Collateral (MRC) team is part of the Cross Risk Metrics (XRM) department. We design and develop platforms that support the Market Risk (RISQ) function, enabling the tracking and control of key risk indicators as well as the limits applied to Front Office activities.

Within the AMER region, you will join a growing and high-impact team working on strategic initiatives. Reporting to the Regional MRC Manager, you will lead the development activities for XRM/MRC in AMER, directly contributing to the evolution of essential risk management platforms and strengthening the region's role in global deliveries.

Your mission

Lead teams, transform platforms, and shape the future of Market Risk technologies.

As a Technical Team Lead, your mission is to drive technical excellence and generate business impact within Market Risk in a global banking environment.

You will lead and inspire a team of engineers while remaining operationally active, contributing to design, development, and code reviews. You will promote collaboration and continuous improvement through agile practices (stand-ups, retrospectives, backlog reviews), while guiding architectural decisions on a modern Azure-based platform.

A key responsibility will be to drive the evolution of the Volcker Metrics Repository (VMR) towards the strategic Metric Platform (MPT). This is a gradual migration: key features are being transferred to MPT while VMR remains critical and must be maintained in the years to come. You will define and execute this roadmap, balancing innovation and stability.

This includes transitioning from an Azure .NET 3-tier architecture to a modern data-oriented ecosystem (Java, Kafka, Data Lake, Spark), and integrating event-driven and data-centric design principles. As an operational leader, you will guide the team in developing their skills and adopting scalable and event-driven design principles.

In close collaboration with end-users, you will prioritize features and align deliveries with business needs, while promoting innovation, such as agent-assisted development.

Ultimately, you will contribute to strengthening the autonomy and expertise of the AMER region, making it a key player in global initiatives and the adoption of the Metric Platform.

Your daily tasks

In this context, you will be responsible for the following missions:

• Lead and grow the team through agile practices (stand-ups, retrospectives, backlog reviews, sprint planning), fostering autonomy, collaboration, and high technical standards through code reviews and mentoring.
• Drive the VMR to Metric Platform transformation, guiding the team through the transition from an Azure .NET 3-tier architecture to a modern ecosystem (Java, Kafka, Data Lake, Spark), and integrating event-driven and data-centric design principles.
• Ensure technical guidance and architectural decisions, maintaining consistency between current Azure-based solutions and the target platform, while balancing short-term needs and long-term vision.
• Collaborate closely with Market Risk and Front Office teams, as well as stakeholders, to prioritize the backlog, refine requirements, and deliver high-value features (PnL and risk).
• Ensure platform stability and reliability by leading Level 3 support activities, analyzing complex production incidents, and driving continuous improvement through root cause analysis.
• Strengthen DevOps and technical excellence: maintaining CI/CD pipelines, improving automation, managing code quality (SonarQube), addressing vulnerabilities, and adhering to internal standards.
• Develop team skills and encourage innovation: adopting the Metric Platform, upskilling on new technologies, and introducing modern practices such as agent-assisted development.

Technical Stack

• Software Craftsmanship best practices: DDD, BDD, TDD, Design Patterns, clean code
• Languages: Java 17 (or latest LTS version), C# 10, C# 14
• Concurrent programming and multithreading
• Frameworks: Spring Boot (with Spring MVC for REST APIs), .NET 10
• Dependency injection: Spring Framework core features, .NET DryIoC
• Big Data: Spark, Kafka (Event Hub), Azure Data Lake
• Database access: Spring Data JPA with Hibernate ORM, Microsoft Entity Framework
• Databases: PostgreSQL (or MySQL, Oracle), Azure SQL Database
• Security: Spring Security with JWT or OAuth2
• Build tool: Maven
• Testing: JUnit 5, Mockito (unit and integration tests), NUnit, MSTest
• API documentation: Springdoc OpenAPI (Swagger UI)
• DevOps: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux (on-premise servers)
• Monitoring: ELK stack, Helm, Grafana
• Cloud: Azure
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Skills and Qualifications

• Essential
• Strong experience as an operational Technical Lead or senior developer, ideally in a banking or financial environment
• Demonstrated ability to design, build, and evolve distributed systems with modern architectures (event-driven, data platforms)
• Experience in team management while remaining operationally active (development, design, code reviews)
• Ability to manage priorities between run (support), build (new features), and transformation initiatives
• Excellent communication skills and ability to interact directly with business stakeholders and end-users
• Ownership-oriented mindset, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing
• Leadership & Soft Skills
• Ability to mentor and develop developers, fostering autonomy, responsibility, and technical excellence
• Strong focus on team development, with coaching on technical and functional topics
• Comfort in driving change and leading transformations in a complex and evolving environment
• Ability to balance strategic vision and pragmatic execution
• Curiosity and interest in learning new technologies and exploring innovative practices (e.g., agent-assisted development)
• Technical & Functional Skills
• Experience with event-driven architectures and distributed systems
• Good understanding of data platforms and batch/streaming processing
• Strong SQL skills and ability to analyze and resolve data-related issues
• Exposure to Market Risk, PnL, or investment banking is a plus
• LANGUAGES
• The ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing, is required, as this position involves regular collaboration with colleagues and partners based in the United States.
• Language Skills:

The ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing, is a requirement since the person occupying this position will need to collaborate regularly with colleagues and partners located in the United States.

Due to U.S. federal securities laws that may apply to this position, candidates who apply may be required to undergo a thorough background check, including fingerprint collection by a third-party vendor selected by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (« FINRA »).

Why choose us?

Société Générale is committed to offering an inclusive recruitment experience to all candidates. If you require reasonable accommodation measures during the recruitment process, please inform our recruitment team.