Electric Mind

Technical Director – Technology

Electric Mind

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Toronto • Canada

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

CloudDistributed SystemsKafkaSpark

About the role

  • Provide strategic technical leadership across complex engagements, ensuring alignment with business priorities.
  • Partner with senior executives to define technology strategy, target architectures, and transformation roadmaps.
  • Act as a trusted advisor through pre-sales, strategic planning, and executive forums.
  • Lead architectural direction across cloud, data, integration, application, and platform domains.
  • Guide solution design for scalable, resilient, and secure enterprise systems.
  • Identify gaps across technology, people, and processes and provide objective, pragmatic recommendations.
  • Ensure technology strategies are clearly articulated and actionable.
  • Oversee large-scale transformation programs, providing governance, coaching, and technical leadership.
  • Champion engineering excellence through DevOps, automation, modular architectures, and cloud-native patterns.
  • Collaborate with delivery teams to scope work, size effort, manage dependencies, and mitigate risks.
  • Mentor architects, technical leads, and engineers to elevate technical maturity.
  • Promote a culture of curiosity, innovation, and high-performance engineering.
  • Represent Electric Mind through thought leadership and industry engagement.
  • Develop reusable assets and strengthen delivery frameworks.
  • Support business development through shaping opportunities, defining solutions, and presenting to executives.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience in senior technical leadership roles.
  • Demonstrated expertise designing and delivering complex distributed systems and enterprise platforms.
  • Deep experience with cloud-native architectures
  • Strong computer science fundamentals and hands-on experience with modern engineering frameworks.
  • Expertise in data-intensive systems (Kafka, Spark, Kinesis, etc.).
  • Exceptional communication and executive influence skills.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud-native architecturesdistributed systemsenterprise platformsdata-intensive systemsKafkaSparkKinesisDevOpsautomationmodular architectures
Soft Skills
strategic leadershipcommunicationexecutive influencementoringcollaborationcoachinginnovationcuriosityhigh-performance engineeringproblem-solving
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceMaster’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in EngineeringMaster’s degree in Engineering