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You’ll set technical direction, contribute to the platform architecture, elevate execution through modern engineering practices, and develop leaders while partnering closely with Product Management (including design) and Technology teams, as well as the Commercial and Operational Teams to achieve business outcomes. You’ll own delivery predictability, reliability, and continuous improvement across your portfolio. This role is a high-impact, high-visibility opportunity to drive business results.\nThe ideal candidate will be a data-driven, experienced people leader with deep expertise in software engineering and platform architecture. They will have a proven ability to engage and inspire large teams to achieve high performance. Additionally, they will play a key role in developing the team, including emerging leaders, by fostering skill growth, enabling success, and building a culture of continuous improvement.\nResponsibilities:\nTechnical Leadership\nFacilitate the definition of a clear technical approach aligned to business goals (API first, cloud-native, event-driven microservices) and execute it with your teams.\nPartner with CTO, Staff Engineers, architects, and Operations to evolve the general architecture and technical roadmaps (observability, reliability, performance, cost efficiency, developer experience).\nEstablish and document guardrails and standards for system design, security, data privacy, and quality.\nBalance short-term delivery with long-term platform health.\nContinuously raise the bar on code quality, test strategy (unit/integration/contract/E2E), and SLO-driven reliability.\nDrive security by design, compliance, and data governance in partnership with Security and Data teams.\nOptimize performance (p95/p99 latency, throughput), scalability, and cloud cost.\nPeople Leadership\nLead, coach, and grow Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, and senior ICs; build a strong leadership bench.\nDevelop and lead training initiatives, identifying gaps and implementing solutions, including resources and support, to upskill the team.\nLed transformational change across both the team and business, aligned with business objectives.\nStructure teams for focus and flow (clear missions, ownership boundaries, and interfaces between services and frontends).\nDrive hiring plans, workforce mix, and succession planning; champion inclusion, psychological safety, and a high-performing culture.\nSet clear expectations, run effective performance and growth cycles, and recognize excellence.\nDelivery & Execution\nEnsure predictable, on-time delivery using Project Management and Agile practices with outcome-based planning.\nGuide teams through the full SDLC with CI/CD, trunk-based development, automated testing, and continuous zero downtime deployments.\nRemove organizational and technical blockers; escalate and align cross-functionally when needed.\nEvolve change management and release readiness gates appropriately to phases and risks.\nPartner with Product on prioritization, scope slicing, and hypothesis-driven development.\nCommunicate status, risk, and tradeoffs with executives in crisp, data-driven updates.\nQualifications:\n15+ years of professional software engineering experience in top technology product organizations, including 6+ years in leadership roles (managing managers and/or multiple teams).\nStrong understanding of software design and architecture principles for distributed systems.\nProven experience scaling event-driven, API-first, cloud-native complex SaaS and microservices platforms on a major cloud provider.\nExpert in both software development methodologies and software engineering best practices.\nDemonstrated success in building and mentoring high-performing teams; excellent coaching, feedback, and conflict-resolution skills.\nDeep understanding of Agile delivery, modern SDLC, DevOps culture, and reliability engineering.\nStrong architectural and design skills across distributed systems, data, security, and integration patterns.\nTrack record of outcome-based delivery with clear metrics and executive-level communication.\nExperience with event streaming, gRPC/REST contracts, and mobile/web product ecosystems.\nAbout LodgeLink\nLodgeLink, a Black Diamond Group company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada is more than just a digital marketplace and ecosystem for crew travel; we’re a caring tech company on a mission to transform workforce travel. Our digital platform is the key to unlocking seamless solutions for finding, booking, and managing crew travel and accommodation needs. Powered by a growing network of hotel and lodge partners, we address the unique challenges of crew travel, applying technology to streamline the entire process from booking to management, payments, and cost reporting. At LodgeLink, we're not just saving our customers time and money; we're changing the future of workforce (crew) travel - for the better.\nUnited by our vision to be THE ecosystem for workforce travel, our values reflect our commitment to collaboration, agility, dependability, inventiveness, and audacity. As a diverse and inclusive team, we come together, sharing ideas, building disruptive technology, and tackling complex problems. Our relentless pursuit to deliver value and superior customer experiences is inspired by a collective passion to ‘Create A Better Way’ for all.\nAt LodgeLink, we're seeking exceptional team players with an entrepreneurial spirit to contribute to our rapid growth. If you crave a career, not just a job, we could be the perfect fit.\nLodgeLink Total Rewards | Caring for our team is a priority, and we’re pleased to provide these benefits:\nBuilding a diverse and inclusive team, supporting career growth and development.\nCompetitive base salaries.\nShare Appreciation Rights programfor salaried employees.\nPaid vacation days and sick days.\nAn employee charitable donation program.\nHotel and travel discounts.\nComprehensive options for benefits, with cost-sharing between the company and the employee. 401K Matching program.\nLodgeLink is a Black Diamond Group company. Learn more: www.lodgelink.com\nBlack Diamond Group is a publicly traded company with 20 years of experience in modular space and workforce solutions, and operations across Canada, the United States, and Australia. Learn more: www.blackdiamondgroup.com\nWe are an Equal Opportunity Employer \n Black Diamond Group is committed to diversity, equal opportunity and ensuring that our employees can thrive in an inclusive environment. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, veteran status, Indigenous status, national origin, age, disability, or any other legally protected factors. 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