Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Kibbi; Victoria; Hybrid; CAD 135,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) seeks a senior software engineer to lead a small team in Victoria, BC. You will develop production-grade software, build data pipelines, and prototype AI-enabled tooling for Investment Operations and Financial Engineering.

The role requires hands-on coding, architectural leadership, and collaboration across teams, with in-person work at the Victoria office and up to one remote day per week.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in STEM is required.
• 8+ years in software engineering with hands-on coding.
• Proven track record shipping production-grade code.

Responsibilities

• Writes production-quality code and participates in peer reviews for analytical platforms and data pipelines.
• Prototypes emerging technology, including AI agent frameworks and LLM-enabled tooling.
• Partners with Financial Engineering to align priorities and deliver enterprise-ready solutions.
• Drives platform modernization, automation, and self-service to reduce friction.

Skills

Bachelor's in STEM

Senior software engineer

Production-grade code

Python

SQL

AI tooling

LLM tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

MongoDB

Docker

Git/Bitbucket

AWS

CI/CD

Job description

About Us

British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) offers an exceptional opportunity to work at a world-class organization while living in a west coast setting. With $313.7 billion of gross assets under management, as of March 31, 2026, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) is the provider of investment management services for British Columbia’s public sector and one of the largest asset managers in Canada. BCI seeks investment opportunities around the world and across a range of asset classes that convert savings into productive capital. Our investment returns play a significant role in helping our institutional clients build a financially secure future for their beneficiaries.

POSTING CLOSE DATE: October 15, 2026

You will lead a small, senior team extending the software and data platforms that BCI's Investment Operations department runs on, and you will be expected to stay in the codebase and the architecture yourself.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Your clients are the Investment Operations department in full: Derivatives, Collateral, Cash, Trade Management, Settlements, Business Solutions, and Financial Engineering. Your closest partner in serving them is the Financial Engineering branch, a specialist quantitative modeling and development group embedded within Investment Operations. Financial Engineering owns its models, applications, architecture and analytical toolchain, and every member of that team, including its senior leadership, is hands-on in development and deployment.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

Reporting to Vice President, Investment Technology within the Technology department, you will lead a team of up to three software engineers. Your closest partner is the Senior Principal, Financial Engineering; much of the team's work is shaped and directed in concert with them, and your credibility rests on being someone they treat as a technical peer. Investment Operations are your clients, and you are Technology's single point of contact for them.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor's degree in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics)
• 8+ years in software engineering, including leading engineers while remaining an active technical contributor
• A proven history of personally writing and shipping production-grade code and analytical tooling, not solely in an oversight capacity
• Strong hands-on Python (R an asset); solid SQL, non-relational databases (for example MongoDB), and version control (Git / Bitbucket)
• Practical experience with CI/CD and release engineering, containerisation (Docker), and cloud platforms (AWS or equivalent)
• Experience with modern data platforms and with AI / Gen AI tooling; deploying AI agents or LLM-enabled tooling in an operational setting is preferred

HELPFUL / PREFERRED

• Posit Connect, Jupyter Notebooks, MongoDB Atlas, or similar analytical publishing platforms
• Knowledge of the investment management industry or financial services
• Enterprise integration patterns, microservices, or iPaaS platforms (for example MuleSoft)
• Advanced degree (MSc, PhD) or designation (CFA, FRM, CQF, MBA)

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Hands-On Engineering & Delivery

• Writes production-quality code and participates in peer review, contributing directly to analytical platforms, data pipelines, and business-facing applications
• Prototypes emerging technology, including AI agent frameworks and LLM-enabled tooling, and champions clean code, automated testing, and documentation by example

Partnership & Client Relationships

• Works in close partnership with the Financial Engineering team, taking direction on priorities while bringing forward engineering options and enterprise alignment
• Plans jointly with the branch on where its models and applications should be extended next, and keeps a workable line between what the branch owns and what this team owns
• Proactively proposes solutions to business problems, tracks delivery KPIs, and allocates a small team's capacity where it produces the most value

Platform, Architecture & Risk

• Provides infrastructure and platform engineering support, including microservices deployment, data integration pipelines, and API/framework provisioning
• Coordinates infrastructure support and enterprise systems alignment with the wider Technology department
• Drives modernization, rationalization, automation, and self-service to remove friction; shapes vendor decisions and manages the allocated budget
• Maintains operational and data quality frameworks, and identifies, mitigates, and escalates technical and deployment risk with appropriate urgency

Team Leadership

• Sets clear objectives, coaches performance, and manages workload across concurrent projects without compromising quality
• Builds capability through skill-gap analysis, stretch assignments, and individual development plans, developing domain fluency alongside technical skill
• Acts as a cultural role model and senior escalation point: collaborative, inclusive, intellectually honest, and quick to remove barriers

WHERE YOU WILL WORK

This role is based in our downtown Victoria, BC office. BCI is an in-person, collaborative organization with the flexibility to work remotely up to one day per week.

SALARY RANGE

The annualized salary range for this Victoria based role at the is CAD $135,000 - $160,000.

Our recruitment process requires that the successful candidate agrees to undergo a criminal record search, education and designation verification; to provide a declaration of no previous or current criminal status; and to comply with our corporate Code of Ethics & Professional Conduct.