Lead DeveloperArchitect

Role type: Contract

Reporting To:VP Technology

Location: Canada (Remote)

Welcome to Normative

At Normative we are committed to solving valuable problems through humancentered design consulting. Our team operates at the intersection of strategy product design and technology helping organizations navigate complexity and drive meaningful innovation.

We believe that exceptional design comes from true partnerships where collaboration is built on transparency trust and shared ownership. Our expertise in specialized problemsolving enables us to tackle hard challenges leveraging deep domain knowledge and a userfirst mindset.

If you thrive in ambiguous and complex environments seek to design for real impact and believe in the power of collaboration and innovation Normative is the right place for you.

About This Role

We are seeking a Lead Developer/Architect to provide architectural vision lead technical strategy and ensure the scalability reliability and security of digital services for one of our clients. This role is critical in driving the successful delivery of software solutions while maintaining technical excellence. You will work closely with Agile teams stakeholders and crossfunctional teams to achieve these objectives.

If you are a technically skilled and product minded development lead or architect wed love to hear from you!

Work Eligibility & Location

This role requires candidates to be located in Canada and eligible to work in Canada. While we are fully remote and offer flexibility in working hours there will be times when availability during 7:30am3:30pm PST / 8:30am4:30pm MST / 10:30am6:30pm EST is required to align with team collaboration and project needs.

What youll do

• Provide architectural vision and guidance to Agile Teams ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Design and implement cloudnative solutions singlepage applications and integrations with enterprise systems (including healthcare or case management systems).
• Define and maintain highlevel standards patterns and metrics for service quality system health data security and compliance.
• Oversee technical decisionmaking research emerging technologies and prototype solutions to guide strategic direction.
• Implement citizencentered and humancentered design principles focusing on frequent iterative deliveries that modernize legacy systems.
• Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines leveraging modern buildonce deploymany practices DevSecOps tools and Infrastructure as Code.
• Lead development efforts across fullstack applications driving best practices in code quality testing and code reviews.
• Collaborate with UX product owners and service teams to translate business needs into architectural approaches and roadmaps.
• Provide technical documentation architecture diagrams and presentations suitable for both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Champion secure data handling implementing encryption access control and robust identity/access management standards (JWTs OIDC SAML).
• Monitor and maintain the health of services ensuring high availability performance and scalability.
• Oversee release planning and deployment approvals while troubleshooting production issues when needed.
• Promote crossteam collaboration represent the team in strategic discussions and foster knowledgesharing on best practices.

What youll bring

• 10 years of IT solution architecture experience including 3 years on healthcarerelated projects or case management systems.
• 5 years of Agile experience incorporating UX design and Service Design approaches.
• 5 years architecting cloudnative solutions and singlepage applications using .NET Node.js ASP Core NestJS Angular Vue or React.
• Strong familiarity with healthcare sector regulations case management platforms and secure data handling practices.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science IT Health Informatics or a related field is a plus.
• Relevant certifications (TOGAF cloud platforms) are a plus.
• Extensive expertise designing and integrating robust APIs and thirdparty systems.
• Extensive expertise creating and enabling architectural plans that enable frequent service delivery ensuring target architectures successfully evolve through iterative releases.
• Extensive knowledge in data security compliance and encryption for healthcare or regulated environments.
• Extensive experience navigating legacy systems performing technical discovery and driving modernization.
• Extensive experience with crossdomain identity/access management (JWTs OIDC SAML) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform AWS CDK etc..
• Extensive experience building distributed resilient and faulttolerant systems with modern CI/CD pipelines (Git GitHub Actions DevSecOps).
• Extensive experience collaborating on and implementing reusable services APIs and shared architectural components.
• Extensive experience leveraging cloud technologies (Azure AWS GCP OpenShift) for containerization scaling and production deployments.
• Excellent communication skills for stakeholder management delivering clear architecture documentation and leading crossfunctional collaboration.
• Strong analytical and leadership abilities to align technical solutions with business objectives guiding teams to successful outcomes.

Working at Normative

At Normative we offer a place where curious driven people can do the best work of their careers in an environment built for autonomy mastery and impact.

We are a fully remote highly collaborative team designed to support independent thinkers who thrive in complexity ambiguity and highaccountability environments.

We take on hard problems that matter spanning strategy UX service design and technology. You wont just execute youll shape solutions drive impact and push boundaries.

We operate with high trust and high accountability. You own your work manage your time and contribute at a high level without micromanagement. We stay connected through deliberate collaboration a welldefined organizational cadence and shared rituals.

We expect ownership directness and bravery but we also value introspection creativity and a positive mindset. We push for excellence while fostering continuous learning and growth.

We invest in our team with fair clearly defined salary ranges meaningful career growth opportunities and a commitment to wellbeing. We support professional development sustainable ways of working and longterm success for both our people and our company.

Accommodations and Accessibility
Normative provides employment accommodations during recruitment. Should you require accommodation please indicate this on your application and well work to meet your needs. For further questions on accessibility reach out to us at

Inclusion

At Normative we aim to foster an environment where everyone feels included and valued. Diversity inclusion and belonging are core to our daily work and help us reach our mission of building trust in technology. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples racialized people people with disabilities gender and sexually diverse communities and people with intersectional identities.

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