Vice President, Engineering

First National Financial LP; Toronto; On-site; CAD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Benefits

Career advancement opportunities

Job summary

First National Financial LP is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead an integrated engineering organization responsible for design, build, test, release, and modernization of applications and platforms supporting underwriting, servicing, funding, and customer experiences.

You will set engineering standards, drive SDLC practices, and partner with product, infrastructure, and governance to deliver measurable outcomes with security and reliability at the forefront.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field is required.
• 10+ years of progressive engineering experience in a leadership role.
• Proven experience leading product-aligned delivery teams and SDLC management.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, CI/CD, and security.
• Experience modernizing legacy applications with minimal disruption.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-disciplinary engineering organization including managers and teams.
• Set and improve engineering standards and SDLC practices across the organization.
• Establish and manage engineering performance measures around quality and reliability.
• Translate business priorities into sequenced engineering roadmaps and plans.
• Drive modernization, AI-enabled delivery, and secure software delivery.

Skills

10+ years of engineering experience

Senior engineering leadership

SDLC CI/CD & test automation

Cloud-enabled delivery

AI-enabled delivery

Cross-functional collaboration

Product and technology governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, technology or related

Job description

Posted Thursday, July 30, 2026 at 4:00 AM | Expires Sunday, August 9, 2026 at 3:59 AM

Reporting To:

CPTO

Full-Time/Part- Time:

Full-time

Posting Date:

July 8, 2026

Closing Date:

August 8, 2026

Hours of Work:

8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Grade:

Office Location:

30.4

Toronto, ON

Great location! Steps away from the main public transit station

What we offer:

Highly competitive compensation package which includes, base salary, bonus, benefits, and career advancement opportunities!

The Opportunity

The Vice President, Engineering reports to the Chief Product and Technology Officer and is accountable fortheapplication engineering organization,including engineering standards, technical delivery,software quality, release readiness, application reliability, supportability, and modernization.

This role leads the teamsandpractices to design, build, test, release, support, and modernize applications, platforms, and systems thatenableunderwriting, servicing,fundingand internal and external experiences (broker, customer, and partner).

The VP, Engineering leads an integrated Engineering organization that includes the product aligned delivery capabilitiesrequiredto translate business priorities into clear roadmaps, sequenced execution plans, and measurable technology outcomes.

How you will contribute:

• Lead and develop a multi-disciplinaryengineering organization, including engineering managers, technical leads, application engineering teams, QA,DevSecOps, release management, solution architecture, and application support.
• Set and improve engineering standards and SDLC practicesby embeddingQA, test automation,DevSecOps, solution architecture, release readiness, change management, observability, and operational support into anend-to-end delivery model.
• Establish and manage engineering performance measuresacross predictability, productivity, software quality, release health, application reliability, supportability, and technical debt reduction.
• Lead the product aligned delivery planning needed totranslatesbusiness prioritiesandproduct roadmapsinto sequenced engineeringplans with clear tradeoffs, dependencies, risks, capacity assumptions, and release readiness expectations.
• Leadplanning, sequencing, capacity tradeoffs,anddeliverycommitmentsacross engineering, product delivery, and business analysis teams, ensuring modernization, automation, AIenabled delivery,prioritize investments basedon businessvalue, risk reduction, supportability, and measurable impact.
• Ensure architectureand technical designsare scalable, secure, maintainable, testable, observable, supportable, and alignedto enterprisestandards.
• Lead modernizationof priority applications and components where modernization improves business agility, risk posture, scalability, cost efficiency, security, reliability, or long-term supportability.
• Reduce technical debt and improve maintainability, integration, and operational readiness by using AIassistedengineering, automation, reusable components, cloud services, modern architecture patterns, and off-the-shelf libraries whereappropriate.
• Own application-level supportability, defect resolution, production readiness, andresponse to issues withEnterprise IT and Infrastructure on environments, cloud platforms, monitoring, deployment automation, infrastructure operations, system health, and platform reliability.
• Partner with Technology Governance, Risk and Performanceto advanceSDLC standards, change management, incident management, controls, risk, and delivery reporting.
• Build ahighperformanceengineering culture with moderncapabilities,learning agility, technical discipline, strong ownership of outcomes, and accountability for measurableOutcomes.
• Operate as a member of the CPTO leadership team,helping Engineering, product delivery, Enterprise IT and Infrastructure, and Technology Governance, Risk and Performance work as an integrated team.

The experience you need:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering,technologyor a related discipline
• 10 + years of progressive engineering experiencerequired
• Senior engineering leadership experience in a complex environment,withaccountability for engineering teams, managers, technical standards, delivery execution, and software quality.
• Experience leading applicationdevelopment, platforms, QA, release management,DevSecOps, solution architecture, and support teams.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, SDLC, CI/CD, test automation, cloud-enabled delivery, observability, operational readiness, and securedeliverypractices.
• Proven ability tolead integrated engineering and product delivery teams balancing business priorities, technical constraints, delivery capacity, risk, modernization needs, quality, reliability, and measurableoutcomes.
• Practical experience modernizing legacy applications and technology componentswith minimaldisruption or cost.
• Experience using or scaling AIenabledengineering, developer productivity tools, automation, and reusable engineering patternswhile ensuringsecurity, privacy, risk, and code review controls.
• Strong technical judgment across application architecture, integration, data flows, reliability, security, maintainability, observability, and supportability.
• Ability to partner effectively with Infrastructure, Security, Risk, Finance, business stakeholders, andexternal partners.
• Strongpeopleleadership capability, including building engineering talent, coaching managers, improving team performance, managing capacity, strengthening succession, and raising technical standards.
• Experience in financial services, mortgage lending, lending operations, servicing, broker channels, third-party partnerships, or regulated technology environments ispreferred.

Relationships:

• External Customers: Engages vendors, platform providers, and implementation partners to support solution delivery and technical quality.
• Internal Customers: Partners with senior leaders, business stakeholders, product delivery teams, and technology teams to deliver modern, secure, and scalable technology solutions

Working Environment and Physical Demands Analysis:

• Periods of high volume with tight timelines
• Long periods of stationary position/sitting
• Prolonged periods of repetitive movement (i.e. using a keyboard and mouse)
• Long periods of time in viewing a computer screen
• Multi-tasking may include speaking to customers on a telephone call while looking up information on a computer program.
• Competitive Compensation
• Comprehensive benefits program (i.e., Health Spending Account, Maternity and Parental Leave Top Up)
• Extensive training programs to set our employees up for success
• Modern office environment conducive to collaboration
• Supportive teamwork culture
• Opportunities to give back to the communities and work through events focused on a variety of charities
• Ongoing social events throughout the year

The team you’ll join:

Founded in 1988, First National is one of Canada’s largest non-bank lenders. We provide residential mortgages exclusively through the mortgage broker channel and we are Canada’s largest commercial mortgage lender.

First National has been consistently recognized as a great place to work and we are proud that our employee engagement feedback is higher than our industry partners.

We would like to thank all applications for their interest in this existing vacancy, but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Artificial Intelligence is not used in our recruitment or hiring process for this role. #FNLOON

First National is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity and inclusion regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender identity, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation and any other category protected by law.

First National supports requests for accommodation from applicants with disabilities; please contact Human Resources at [e-mail] should you need an accommodation at any point in the recruitment process.