Lead Developer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Gather client and business requirements, review business rules, document requests, and establish project scope and process flows.
• Build, extend, integrate, and support applications, databases, interfaces, and workflows for facility users and research services.
• Plan project frameworks, milestones, timelines, estimates, staffing, resources, and deliverables; coordinate work and monitor standards.
• Supervise staff, assign work, monitor procedures, and mentor junior developers.
• Design and develop software specifications, system components, data models, integrations, and technical documentation.
• Coordinate release management and production migrations and enforce change-control procedures.
• Plan and perform system, integration, acceptance, regression, and performance testing; manage defects and resolve implementation issues.
• Provide client training, Level III support, technical advice, and clear explanations of systems and technical issues.
• Conduct business analysis and cost-benefit analysis, advise on solution options, and communicate project and system status.
• Maintain technical, security, operations, and process documentation and stay current with relevant methods and technologies.

Requirements and conditions

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, or a related field of study.
• Successful completion of required nuclear-facility security screenings and clearances.
• Work may involve entering radiological hazardous environments; required protective equipment must be used as necessary.
• The posting lists Python and Django, frontend technologies, PostgreSQL, open-source development, integrations, identity and access management, automated testing, secure development, Linux, containers, and research-environment experience as assets.

Assets

• Python and Django application development; HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks such as React, Vue.js, or Angular.
• PostgreSQL, relational database design, data modeling, migrations, and JSON.
• Open-source software configuration and maintenance, Git and GitHub, REST APIs, web services, message queues, and middleware.
• Identity and access management, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, role-based access control, and SAML, OAuth2, or OIDC.
• Automated testing, secure software development, audit logging, vulnerability remediation, Linux, Docker, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Technical documentation, user guides, reports, data exports, dashboards, electronic approvals, and automated notifications.
• Experience in a university environment, especially research, is an asset.

Schedule

• 35 hours per week, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with a 60-minute unpaid lunch.
• Expected start is November 2026; the limited-term appointment lasts 24.4 months.

Compensation

• Salary range is $41.99–$59.09 per hour.

Workplace and safety

• The role is associated with McMaster’s Central Campus and nuclear facilities and includes on-site project responsibilities.
• The employee will be declared a Nuclear Energy Worker and may work in radiological hazardous environments with required protective equipment.