Platform Engineering Tech Lead

Application Deadline:

09/04/2025

Address:
33 Dundas Street West

Job Family Group:

Technology

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Platform Engineering Tech Lead to lead and drive our platform engineering initiatives across the portfolio. This role will be responsible for designing, implementing, and governing platform solutions while ensuring best practices, scalability, and operational excellence. The Tech Lead will work closely with cross-functional teams to establish playbooks, standards, and frameworks for platform services, including AWS Lambda, OpenShift, Java/Spring Boot applications, and other cloud-native technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead platform engineering initiatives across multiple projects, ensuring alignment with organizational standards and best practices.
• Define, document, and maintain playbooks and best practices for platform activities (e.g., creating AWS Lambdas, onboarding services, migrating services from OpenShift to AWS).
• Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to design resilient, secure, and scalable platform solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, guiding them in platform technologies and modern engineering practices.
• Drive cloud adoption and modernization initiatives, including service migration from OpenShift to AWS Lambda.
• Ensure adherence to agile principles, participate in ceremonies, and foster collaboration across teams.
• Act as a subject matter expert in infrastructure, cloud-native services, container orchestration, and serverless architectures.
• Continuously evaluate and recommend tools, frameworks, and practices that improve platform performance and reliability.
• Support governance by enforcing compliance with platform and cloud standards.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Platform Engineer / Tech Lead / Senior Engineer in enterprise-scale environments.
• Strong expertise in:
  
  • AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFormation/Terraform, etc.)
  • OpenShift / Kubernetes
  • Java, Spring Boot, and microservices architecture
  • Containerization (Docker, Fargate, etc.)
• Strong understanding of cloud governance, security, and compliance frameworks.
• Experience defining playbooks, frameworks, and engineering standards.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation, and DevOps practices.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with ability to work across multiple teams.
• Agile mindset with experience working in Scrum/Kanban environments.

Nice to Have

• Experience with multi-cloud strategies.
• Knowledge of observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch).
• Prior experience in the banking/financial services sector (if applicable).

Why Join Us

• Opportunity to lead platform engineering initiatives across a critical portfolio.
• Drive cloud modernization and shape the future of platform practices.
• Work with modern technologies and play a key role in setting engineering standards.

Salary :

$75,900.00 - $141,900.00

Pay Type:

Salaried

The above represents BMO Financial Group's pay range and type.

Salaries will vary based on factors such as location, skills, experience, education, and qualifications for the role, and may include a commission structure. Salaries for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on number of hours regularly worked. For commission roles, the salary listed above represents BMO Financial Group's expected target for the first year in this position.

BMO Financial Group's total compensation package will vary based on the pay type of the position and may include performance-based incentives, discretionary bonuses, as well as other perks and rewards. BMO also offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans. To view more details of our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.bmo.com/global/en/Total-Rewards

About Us

At BMO we are driven by a shared Purpose: Boldly Grow the Good in business and life. It calls on us to create lasting, positive change for our customers, our communities and our people. By working together, innovating and pushing boundaries, we transform lives and businesses, and power economic growth around the world.

As a member of the BMO team you are valued, respected and heard, and you have more ways to grow and make an impact. We strive to help you make an impact from day one - for yourself and our customers. We'll support you with the tools and resources you need to reach new milestones, as you help our customers reach theirs. From in-depth training and coaching, to manager support and network-building opportunities, we'll help you gain valuable experience, and broaden your skillset.

To find out more visit us at https://jobs.bmo.com/ca/en .

BMO is committed to an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace. By learning from each other's differences, we gain strength through our people and our perspectives. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. To request accommodation, please contact your recruiter.

Note to Recruiters: BMO does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to BMO, directly or indirectly, will be considered BMO property. BMO will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. A recruiting agency must first have a valid, written and fully executed agency agreement contract for service to submit resumes.