At the Western Canada Lottery Corporation, we’re updating and adapting the way we do business with a renewed focus on meeting the needs of lottery players and stakeholders in our region – which includes meeting them online.
A new role to our organization, the iLottery Technical & Development Manager plays a crucial role in the technological development of a new iLottery platform for WCLC and reports directly to our Director of Application Delivery.
We’re looking for someone who is comfortable wearing many hats to manage a internal technical team, help lead technology projects, and collaborate closely with stakeholders to ensure that the design and development of technology products align with the company’s strategic direction while also addressing player needs.
Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
In this role, you’ll be asked to…
- Collaborate with internal and external software developers, business analysts, and solution architects throughout all phases of planning and deploying web-based business applications.
- Guide the iLottery Team efforts towards successful delivery and execution of releases.
- Work closely with WCLC’s Architecture team and deliverables to provide traceability across the models, prepare low level application architecture and designs, to reflect ‘as built’.
- Work closely with the Vendor, Product and Scrum teams to contribute to release and implementation planning with a focus on our technical approach & feasibility.
- Collaborate with internal delivery teams (integration, automation and quality assurance, and operations) to assess downstream system impacts.
- Coach and mentor internal Developers, helping set up frameworks, standards, and optimized processes while always looking for opportunities for improvement (for example automation & DevSecOps toolsets & practices).
- Maintain high standards of internal software quality by establishing good practices and habits, ensuring secure application coding standards are maintained through code reviews.
- Assist in the collection and documentation of user requirements, development of user stories, and estimating work packages.
- Collaborate with Architecture to plan and prepare internal decommission strategy and approach for migration of features & functions to new iLottery platform.
- Analyze and resolve technical and application problems from detection through to resolution, along with documenting impact and root cause analysis.
- Track technical decisions and any technical debt incurred to ensure that it is taken care of to avoid future challenges.
- Track development frequency, deployment size and bug detection rate for internally developed systems.
Qualifications:
For this role, we’re looking for someone with…
- A BSc degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Computer Engineering or other relevant field.
- Previous experience in a Senior Software Developer position, with a strong technical background.
- Previous team or work stream leadership experience, with strong leadership skills and experience coaching or mentoring a team of Software Developers to success.
- Experience with DevSecOps tools and processes and cloud technologies.
- Knowledge of various programming languages, software development methodologies, and project management practices.
- Demonstrated experience operating in an agile environment.
- Advanced technical skills and background, with understanding or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple concurrent tasks and priorities.
- Demonstrated experience preparing solution models and technical writing.
Who we are
You may not be very familiar with WCLC, but you’re almost certainly familiar with the products we help bring to players throughout the Prairie Provinces and the North every day; lottery games like LOTTO 6/49, SPORT SELECT, and dozens of instant scratch tickets.
WCLC is the non-profit organization authorized to manage, conduct, and operate lotteries – at retail and online – and other gaming-related activities for the governments of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba as well as the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. We work closely with our provincial partners to bring a first-rate lottery experience to our players and meet their changing needs with new technology and tools.
We know it’s our people that make this possible, which is why we invest in building talented, adaptable, and accountable teams who are proud to live and work in our region. We’d love to talk to you about how you fit into that.
