Senior Manager, Software Development

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Manage developers and team leads, including vendor and contract resources; set priorities and allocate resources.
• Coach team members, provide feedback, and support career development and continuous learning.
• Oversee design, development, and deployment of complex Wealth Management Trading applications.
• Translate business needs into technical plans and resolve issues with business and cross-functional partners.
• Own platform modernization roadmap, target architecture, sequencing, coexistence, and safe legacy decommissioning.
• Establish architecture principles and standards; drive API-first, event-driven, and cloud-native patterns.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend strategic investments.
• Lead enterprise AI Engineering Platform and agentic workflow adoption across the software development lifecycle.
• Set responsible AI guardrails, including human review and model-risk controls.
• Champion code review, secure coding, CI/CD, automated testing, and AI-assisted tooling.
• Reduce technical debt while delivering business value and maintaining operational stability.
• Ensure availability, performance, and resilience of real-time trading systems.

Must-have qualifications

• 10+ years in software development, including 5+ years leading development teams with people management in an Agile environment.
• Hands-on back-end Java experience, including Java 17+, Spring or Spring Boot, REST APIs, and messaging such as MQ or Kafka.
• Experience with cloud-native and event-driven architecture, microservices, Kafka, containers, and Azure or OpenShift.
• Experience leading legacy modernization or migration from target architecture through cut-over.
• Practical experience applying AI tools in software delivery and understanding where guardrails are needed.
• Working knowledge of COBOL and legacy platforms.
• Experience owning high-volume, high-availability production systems, including incident and problem management, SLAs, and change control.
• Strong written and verbal communication and ability to influence business and technology leaders.

Nice-to-have qualifications

• Retail brokerage or trading knowledge, including equities, options, fixed-income order flow, trade posting, settlement, and Canadian regulatory requirements such as CIRO.
• HPE NonStop experience, including Guardian/OSS, TACL, Pathway, Enscribe, NonStop SQL/MP or MX, TMF, or GoldenGate.
• Experience building or rolling out enterprise agentic AI workflows.
• Experience in a large regulated financial institution with audit, risk, and operations partners.

Benefits

• Total Rewards program includes bonuses and flexible benefits; commissions and stock may apply.
• Coaching and development opportunities, flexible work-life balance options, and a collaborative team environment.

Compensation

• The posting describes compensation as salaried but does not specify a pay cadence or amount.

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