Technical Lead — Java / Spring Boot / Azure (Financial Services)

About ProCogia 
We’re a diverse, close-knit team with a common pursuit of providing top-class, end-to-end data solutions for our clients. In return for your talent and technical expertise, you will be rewarded with a competitive salary, generous benefits along with ample opportunity for personal development. ‘Growth mindset’ is something we seek in all our new hires and has helped drive much of our recent growth across North America. Our distinct approach is to push the limits and value derived from data. Working within ProCogia’s thriving environment will allow you to unleash your full career potential. 

ProCogia has experienced considerable growth over the last three years & core to our culture is maintaining a high level of cultural equality throughout the company. Our diversity and differences allow us to create innovative and effective data solutions for our clients. 
 
Job Summary 
Reporting directly to the Senior Delivery Manager, ProCogia is seeking a Technical Lead — Java / Spring Boot / Azure (Financial Services) to join our team. Our Financial Services client is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to drive development across a Payments POD, a Commercial POD, and a Visa POD. You will lead a team of engineers, own technical delivery, and remain deeply hands-on — writing code, reviewing pull requests, and setting engineering standards. 

This is a fully remote role, with the ideal candidate being based out of BC, Alberta, or Ontario, and working PDT hours. 

Key Responsibilities  

• Lead and mentor a team of Java developers; own sprint-level technical delivery 

• Design, build, and review Java/Spring Boot microservices and RESTful APIs supporting payments, commercial banking, and Visa card platforms 

• Perform code reviews and enforce engineering standards for quality, security, and performance 

• Translate solution architecture into detailed technical designs and implementation plans 

• Drive CI/CD, testing, and DevOps practices on Azure 

• Collaborate with architects, product owners, and cross-functional stakeholders 

• Troubleshoot production issues and guide root-cause analysis 

 
Qualifications 

• 8+ years of software development experience, including 2+ years as a Technical Lead in Financial/Banking sector applications 

• Expert hands-on Java and Spring Boot development (microservices, RESTful APIs, Spring Cloud) 

• Experience building and deploying on Azure (AKS, App Services, Azure Functions, API Management, Service Bus, Event Hubs, or equivalent) 

• Experience with modern core banking / commercial banking / digital banking systems supporting a Payments POD, a Commercial POD, and a Visa POD 

• Strong knowledge of integration patterns, event-driven architecture, and API design 

• Proven ability to lead code reviews, mentor developers, and raise team engineering standards 

• Solid grasp of SQL/NoSQL databases, messaging (Kafka or equivalent), and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) 

• CI/CD experience (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar) and automated testing practices 

• Excellent communication skills; effective collaboration with cross-functional teams and stakeholders 

• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience 

Nice to Have 

• Payment rails experience (Interac, Visa DPS, ISO 20022, real-time payments) 

• Exposure to architecture practices and modelling (UML, TOGAF, 4+1 View Model) 

• Security in regulated environments (PCI DSS, OSFI guidelines) 
• Performance tuning and observability (App Insights, Grafana, distributed tracing)