Senior Software Engineering Specialist

Mackenzie Investments; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 91,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Health and well-being benefits

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Career development

Job summary

Mackenzie Investments in Canada is seeking a Senior Salesforce Software Developer to own end-to-end delivery of large-scale Salesforce solutions. You will apply advanced technical judgment to design secure, scalable systems and drive engineering practices across a pod, product, or platform workstream.

In this hybrid role, you will collaborate with product, architecture, platform, and security teams to ensure high-quality software outcomes and contribute to AI-enabled development practices to

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive experience designing, developing, and delivering Salesforce solutions.
• Salesforce platform expertise including Sales Cloud/Marketing Cloud; relevant certifications are a plus.
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps tooling.
• Strong security-by-design and architecture judgment.
• Ability to lead through influence and drive technical decisions.
• Excellent communication with diverse stakeholders.
• Experience delivering in Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end technical delivery for complex Salesforce features/services across a pod, product, or platform workstream.
• Translate functional and non-functional requirements into robust designs aligned to architecture standards.
• Set and reinforce engineering quality expectations (coding standards, review rigor, test strategy).
• Drive reliability and operability practices (observability, incident learning, performance tuning).
• Coordinate dependencies with Architects, Platform, Infrastructure, Security/Risk partners; surface trade-offs.
• Determine when governance engagement is required for risk escalation.
• Enable AI-enabled delivery by standardizing safe usage patterns for code generation/refactoring, review, and test creation.
• Lead triage of production issues and complex defects; ensure root-cause remediation and prevention.

Skills

Salesforce

Sales Cloud

Marketing Cloud

Apex

Lightning

Flows

CI/CD

DevOps tooling

Agile

Security-by-design

Communication

Architecture

Education

Post-secondary degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering

Tools

Git

GitHub

Jenkins

Job description

Job Description

Referral Level: Level 3

Mackenzie Investments

IGM Financial Inc. is a leading wealth and asset management company in Canada, managing approximately $310 billion in assets as of December 31, 2025. It offers financial planning and investment services to over two million Canadians through IG Wealth Management and Mackenzie Investments.

Mackenzie Investments, founded in 1967, is a key part of IGM's business model, serving as a comprehensive asset-management partner for Canadian financial advisors and their clients.

At Mackenzie Investments You Can Build Your Career with Confidence. We are proud to be recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for the fourth consecutive year and one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers. Our vision and strategy aim to innovate the industry and support Canadians in achieving their financial goals.

Join our team to engage in continuous learning and skill development in a supportive environment. Experience the best of both worlds with our hybrid work environment, where you spend three days a week in the office, connecting, collaborating, and enjoying quality time with your amazing colleagues! Our Values: Be better; we strive for improvement in everything we do. Be accountable; we foster clarity and are empowered to act responsibly. Be a team; we are united to drive collective impact to achieve our goals.

Overall Job Purpose

The Senior Salesforce Software Developer is accountable for end-to-end delivery of software outcomes across a pod, product, or platform workstream. The role applies advanced technical judgement to balance value, risk, and feasibility; ensures solutions are secure and operable; and drives consistent engineering practices in alignment with Technology policies, standards, and governance.

Key Accountabilities

• Own end-to-end technical delivery for complex features/services, including design, build, test, deploy, and operationalization.
• Translate functional and non-functional requirements into robust designs and implementation approaches, aligned to architecture standards.
• Set and reinforce engineering quality expectations (coding standards, review rigor, test strategy) within the team’s scope.
• Drive reliability and operability practices (observability, incident learning, performance tuning, technical debt reduction).
• Coordinate dependencies with Architects, Platform, Infrastructure, Security/Risk partners; surface trade‑offs and sequencing impacts.
• Determine when architectural, security, or enterprise risk escalation is required; ensure appropriate governance engagement.
• Enable AI‑augmented delivery by standardizing safe usage patterns for code generation/refactoring, review, and test creation.
• Lead technical triage of production issues and complex defects; ensure root‑caus e remediation and prevention planning.
• Contribute to the Software & Quality Engineering Chapter by sharing practices, improving standards, and mentoring peers through influence.

Qualifications

• Post‑secondary degree or diploma in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Programming, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 7+ years of progressive experience designing, developing, and delivering Salesforce solutions within large‑scale enterprise environments; Salesforce Administrator, Platform Developer, and Agentforce certifications are considered an asset.
• Deep expertise across the Salesforce platform, including Sales Cloud and Marketing Cloud, with experience designing secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions using Apex, Lightning technologies, Flows, integrations, and the Salesforce security model.
• Experience with modern software engineering practices, including source control, CI/CD, automated testing, release management, and DevOps tooling (e.g., Git, GitHub, Jenkins).
• Significant experience delivering complex software solutions in Agile environments, translating business and technical requirements into high‑quality software outcomes.
• Strong software engineering judgment across architecture and design trade‑offs, security‑by‑design, performance, resiliency, and operational excellence.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence by driving technical decisions, conducting design and code reviews, and promoting engineering standards and best practices.
• Experience collaborating effectively across product, architecture, platform, infrastructure, security, and governance stakeholders to deliver business value.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience incorporating AI‑enabled development practices responsibly to improve delivery quality, productivity, and team effectiveness.

The expected annual base salary range for this role is $91,000 - $123,000 which is determined based on skills, knowledge and experience and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for annual short‑term incentive, health and well‑being benefits, retirement and savings plan, paid time off and career development.

IGM is a diverse workplace committed to doing business inclusively - this starts with having a representative workforce! We encourage applications from all qualified candidates that represent the diversity present across Canada – including racialized persons, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ community, gender diverse and neurodiverse individuals, as well as all who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.

Mackenzie Investments is an accessible employer committed to providing barrier‑free recruitment experience. If you require accommodation or this information in an alternate format at any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out to the Talent Acquisition team who will work with you to meet your needs.

Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment: As part of our Talent Acquisition process, we may use artificial intelligence and automated tools to support activities such as candidate sourcing, application review, and interview scheduling. These tools support the recruitment process; all hiring decisions are made by people.

We thank all applicants for their interest in Mackenzie Investments; however, only that candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Please apply by November 23 2026.