Senior Manager - Workflow Platforms

Citi; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A major financial services company in Peel Region, Mississauga, is seeking a dynamic Senior Engineering Manager to lead a technical team in developing strategic platforms across various business stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience managing technical teams, deep knowledge in Application Development, particularly in Java and microservices architecture, and strong operational and managerial skills to enhance efficiency and execution. This role includes hands-on leadership of teams and promoting engineering excellence standards.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience managing diverse technical teams.
• Proficient in Java, Spring Boot, and React for application development.
• Strong understanding of microservices system design.

Responsibilities

• Lead Application Development team to meet goals and conduct evaluations.
• Develop and execute engineering excellence plans for teams.
• Tackle high-impact problems through thorough analysis.

Skills

Management of technical teams

Application Development with Java

Microservices architecture

SQL and non-SQL DB technologies

DevOps tools (Docker, Kubernetes)

Analytical thinking

Excellent communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Master’s degree preferred

Job description

Job Purpose:

We are in search of a dynamic Senior Engineering Manager to lead technical team in the development of a strategic platforms, utilized across various business stakeholders across Markets.

In this senior role, you will be primarily responsible for establishing and steering the strategy for the technical domain in collaboration with Senior Business Users, Product Managers, Software Architects, and multiple Software Engineering partners.

The ideal candidate will exhibit exceptional managerial, architectural, hands-on coding, and infrastructure skills, along with a solid track record of leading high-performing engineering teams. We are seeking someone with robust management and operational skills to enhance efficiency and expedite execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Hands-on leadership of Application Development team to achieve set goals and conduct personnel duties (e.g., coding, deploying,hiring, performance evaluations, etc.)
• Construct and uphold the strategic vision and design of the entire workflow and inventories platform, ensuring prompt delivery of work items within both functional and non-functional areas.
• Develop and execute an engineering excellence plan for multiple software engineering teams to consistently improve technical implementation areas.
• Troubleshoot various high-impact problems/projects through comprehensive evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards.
• Provide subject expertise and superior knowledge of applications programming, ensuring application design conforms to the overarching architecture blueprint.
• Cultivate extensive knowledge of business areas, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to achieve business goals.
• Investigate in-depth and employ interpretive thinking to identify issues and develop pioneering solutions.
• Serve as a mentor or coach to developers, architects, and project managers, delegating work as necessary.
• Enforce adherence to the highest code quality and testing standards among all team members.
• Evaluate and conduct Proof of Concepts (POC) for new strategic technical products and applications, assessing their applicability to the workflow platform.

Skills & Qualifications

• 10+ years of extensive commercial experience managing technical teams with diverse skill sets (e.g., backend engineers, full stack engineers, software engineers in test, and system reliability engineers).
• Proficient in workflow management, or possessing a good understanding BPM tools with a proven capacity to quickly develop workflow management solutions.
• Significant hands-on experience in Application Development leveraging Java, Spring Boot, and React, including scalable backend services, APIs, and advanced frontend UI’s.
• Comprehensive understanding of microservices-based applications system design and modern architectural patterns, including Event-Driven Design.
• Professional experience using SQL and non-SQL DB technologies (Oracle, MS SQL, Mongo DB), and a thorough understanding of in-memory caching and searching technologies (Hazelcast, Redis, etc.).
• Prior experience deploying fault-tolerant distributed systems on Linux in a cloud environment, familiarity with cloud computing concepts and DevOps tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift). Experience working in a DevOps culture and a willingness to promote it.
• Ability to uphold high development standards under pressure, especially concerning code quality, code reviews, unit testing, continuous integration, and deployment.
• Eagerness to take on challenges and utilize new technologies.
• Experience working in fast-paced development environments.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred

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