Tech Lead / Architect
Toronto, Ontario • Direct Hire • February 21, 2026 • 85840
Base Salary Range: $95000 - $142000
Job Title: Tech Lead / Architect
Job ID: 85840
Location: Toronto, Ontario
What you will be doing:
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Set squad technical direction and lead complex solution design and implementation across development, build, and integration.
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Provide technical governance on designs; evaluate major options/trade-offs using prototypes/simulations.
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Ensure engineering/security standards are applied and vendors are held accountable.
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Drive systems integration/build automation and continuous integration practices.
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Lead production support/troubleshooting direction; define monitoring/alerting and document solutions/support processes.
What you must have:
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8–10+ years in IT and 3+ years as a Solution Architect guiding dev/testing teams through moderate-to-high complexity integrations.
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Strong architecture + integration patterns, distributed systems understanding, API design (REST/SOAP), security patterns/DevSecOps.
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Practical understanding of features of widely used compiled languages (e.g., C, C++, C#, Go, Rust, Java) and interpreted
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languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, Perl).
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Familiarity with web frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js), backend development frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot,
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FastAPI, Express.js), and unit and integration testing frameworks (e.g., JUnit, TestNG, NUnit, PyTest).
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Proficient in attribute-driven design, architectural decision-making, and trade-off analysis methodologies such as ATAM and CBAM.
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Demonstrated understanding of product management, including value-based prioritization, and ability to translate business goals to technical plans.
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In-depth understanding of microservices, message-driven, event-driven, streaming (e.g., Kafka), cloud-native, and multi-experience web and mobile and distributed architectures.
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Knowledge of advanced caching strategies and data access pattern optimization.
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Practical knowledge of distributed system challenges including consistency, availability, and partition tolerance trade-offs.
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Comprehensive knowledge of service-oriented architecture, API design (REST, SOAP), API versioning, API gateways.
Salary/Rate Range: $95,000.00 - $142,000.00
Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. If you are selected to move forward in the process, we will contact you directly. If you do not hear from us, we encourage you to continue visiting our website for other roles that may be a good fit.
For more information about TEEMA and to consider other career opportunities, please visit our website at www.teemagroup.com