Senior Development Manager (Technology)

at  BMO Financial Group

33 Dundas Street West Toronto Ontario,M5G 3C2

Prioritizes and supports the work of customer-facing and/or internal platforms. Tracks and maintains platform health scores as well as adoption rate. Manages the stability, accessibility, scalability, security and support innovation of the platform. Coordinates the activities of technology, design, security and marketing, to develop platform strategies, roadmaps, and execution. Manages the relationship with vendors for support, compliance, license tracking and any other needs.

• Builds relationships with and works with stakeholders to understand the platform vision, align and deliver on the roadmap.
• Documents business rules, functional/technical specifications, and process interpretations for assigned applications, process flows, systems, and business solutions.
• Analyzes platform data to drive and implement optimizations.
• Undertakes prioritization of work of a component or group of components that are used by customers/end users.
• Understands the competitive and strategic position of the organization, in order to deliver best-in-industry products.
• Ensures compliance with service and support agreements and standards.
• Manages technical requirements e.g. APIs and other platform components with a focus on security and resilience to protect end-users.
• Fosters a culture aligned to BMO purpose, values and strategy and role models BMO values and behaviours in all that they do.
• Ensures alignment between values and behaviour that fosters diversity and inclusion.
• Regularly connects work to BMO’s purpose, sets inspirational goals, defines clear expected outcomes, and ensures clear accountability for follow through.
• Builds interdependent teams that collaborate across functional and operating groups to create the highest value for all stakeholders.
• Attracts, retains, and enables the career development of top talent.
• Improves team performance, recognizes and rewards performance, coaches employees, supports their development, and manages poor performance.
• Operates at a group/enterprise-wide level and serves as a specialist resource to senior leaders and stakeholders.
• Applies expertise and thinks creatively to address unique or ambiguous situations and to find solutions to problems that can be complex and non-routine.
• Implements changes in response to shifting trends.
• Broader work or accountabilities may be assigned as needed.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Typically 12+ years of work experience in IT in computer science, engineering, information systems.
• Expert level of knowledge in domain Broad/diverse business knowledge of a range of functions, products and/or systems, or expert knowledge of specialized functions, products and/or systems
• Knowledge of software development practices, concepts, and technology obtained through formal training and/or work experience.
• Knowledge of required programming languages and can code with little oversight.
• Knowledge of technical/business environment and processes.
• Understand functional aspects and technical behavior of the underlying operating system, development environment, and deployment practices.
• Have facility with and understanding of the ecosystem that code operates in.
• Application programming interface (API) management.
• Knowledge of software development practices, concepts, and technology obtained through formal training and/or work experience.
• Knowledge of required programming languages and can code with little oversight.
• Knowledge of technical/business environment and processes.
• Understand functional aspects and technical behavior of the underlying operating system, development environment, and deployment practices.
• Have facility with and understanding of the ecosystem that code operates in.
• Seasoned professional with a combination of education, experience and industry knowledge.
• Manage end to end responsibilities, delivery, application support, every single aspect from requirement, design, development, testing, production support and delivery. Architecture knowledge and solutions design.
• Must have 12+years experience in Java, oracle, API, microservices, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, lambda.
• Nice to have experience in AWS Cloud

Please refer the Job description for details