THE ROLE IN A NUTSHELLBase Salary: CAD $94,406.00 - 142,069.00
Reporting to the Director, IT Delivery Services, the role is responsible for the management and coordination of all aspects of an application development team to meet or exceed company and department objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Manage Application Development functional deliverables for multiple concurrent projects from inception to completion.
- Define responsibilities, assign resources, create, maintain and monitor development schedules and budget.
- Effectively allocate resources to optimize project portfolio delivery.
- Ensure that application development milestones are met by anticipating issues, managing resources and
Risks. - Provide technical guidance and support, ensuring the development team has the expertise, resources, and direction needed to effectively design, implement, and troubleshoot the application. This includes providing strategic advice on architecture, coding standards, best practices, and problem-solving techniques
- Drive test-driven development and other engineering best practices and continuous improvement of development processes.
- Participate in various specification and design reviews.
- Lead, mentor and coach the software development team including Development, Business Analysis and Quality Assurance.
- Encourage and develop reports so they advance in their technical expertise.
- Ensure that adherence to technical standards, process and policy is being followed.
- Foster a climate that supports relationship building and collaboration with other IT teams and throughout the business, which results in improved alignment and innovation.
WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR- University degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Minimum of 8 years of related experience in Enterprise IT environments.
- Demonstrated experience in managing and leading agile development teams.
- Passion and experience working with back-end real-time transactional systems.
- Proven ability to manage design and development activities on multiple simultaneous application development projects from inception to completion.
- Experienced in providing planning and reporting of development team activities and progress as part of an
Integrated Project Management Process. - Demonstrated leadership experience to motivate, build, develop and lead effective teams to achieve results.
- Strong development and design experience. Expert knowledge of software development methodologies, and the software lifecycle gained from experience developing multiple projects.
- Clear and effective written and oral communication skills and the ability to communicate to all levels of internal and external customers.
- An accomplished Facilitator with excellent interpersonal and communications skills that support working effectively in multi-disciplinary and multiple location team environments.
- Highly developed planning, organizing and negotiating skills; can manage multiple tasks, meet tight deadlines and respond to changing priorities.
- Valuable to have experience in Oracle PL/SQL,C#.Net, ETL Tools, Robot Process Automation (RPA), Oracle RDBMS, Azure DevOps, JSON, APIs, and Cloud development.
Ability to travel within Canada.
NICE TO HAVEs- Bilingualism (English/French).
- Group benefits and/or insurance experience.
