Development Manager

Bank of Montreal•New York, NY

12h

About The Position

This role involves applying development expertise to front and back-end systems coding, combined with project management and systems administration skills. The Development Manager designs the strategy for continuous enhancement, performance optimization, stability, and scalability. They will design, develop, and maintain fully-fledged platforms with databases or servers, and design the user experience, user interaction, responsive design, and complete architecture. The role requires working with databases, servers, APIs, version control systems, and third-party applications, ensuring cross-platform compatibility and fixing issues during test and production phases. The Development Manager builds dynamic, visually-attractive, and innovative software products/applications, managing the complete software development process from conception to deployment, and maintaining and upgrading software post-deployment. They will oversee and guide the analysis, building, and deployment of software, as well as automated testing and provide insights on results. Additionally, this role involves modifying and testing changes to previously developed programs. The Development Manager fosters a culture aligned with BMO's purpose, values, and strategy, modeling BMO values and behaviors, ensuring alignment between values and behaviors that foster diversity and inclusion. They regularly connect work to BMO’s purpose, set inspirational goals, define clear expected outcomes, and ensure clear accountability. This role builds interdependent teams that collaborate across functional and operating groups to create value for 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. The Development Manager operates at a group/enterprise-wide level, serving as a specialist resource to senior leaders and stakeholders, applying expertise and creative thinking to address unique or ambiguous situations and complex problems. They implement changes in response to shifting trends and may be assigned broader work or accountabilities as needed. The role requires taking measured risks while protecting the bank by applying the Risk Management Framework, making sound and risk-informed decisions that align with business strategy, protect assets, and adhere to applicable policy documents, laws, and regulations.

Requirements

Proficiency in either front-end technologies (e.g., TypeScript, React) or back-end technologies (e.g., Java, PostgreSQL, AWS) is required.
Demonstrated ability to apply development expertise in both front-end and back-end systems coding, combined with project management and systems administration skills.
Advanced level of proficiency: Front-end languages and framework.
Backend Technologies and Frameworks.
Database and cache.
Basic design ability.
Server.
Web architecture.
Version Control.
Web Hosting Platforms.
Learning Agility.
Building and managing relationships.
Technical writing / documentation.
Verbal & written communication skills.
Organization skills.
Collaboration & team skills.
Analytical and problem solving skills.
Influence skills.
Data driven decision making.
Typically 7+ years of relevant experience and post-secondary degree in related field of study or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Seasoned professional with a combination of education, experience and industry knowledge.

Nice To Haves

Experience in team leadership or mentoring developers.
Motivated to enhance leadership abilities.
Experience in both front-end and back-end technologies is a plus.
Familiarity with FX business applications or OpenFin is considered an asset.

Responsibilities

Applies development expertise to front and back-end systems coding combined with project management experience with systems administration skills.
Designs the strategy for continuous enhancement, performance optimization, stability, and scalability.
Designs, develops, and maintains fully-fledged and functioning platforms with databases or servers.
Designs the user experience, user interaction, responsive design, and complete architecture.
Works with databases, servers, APIs, version control systems, and third-party apps.
Ensures cross-platform compatibility and fixes issues during test and production phases.
Builds dynamic, visually-attractive, and innovative software product/apps including front-end and back-end components.
Manages the complete software development process from conception to deployment.
Maintains and upgrades the software following deployment.
Manages the end-to-end life cycle for the production of software and applications.
Oversees and guides the analysis, writing, building, and deployment of software.
Oversees automated testing and provides insights on results.
Modifies and tests changes to previously developed programs.
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.
Take measured risks while protecting the bank by applying our Risk Management Framework in the execution of your role, in line with our Risk Culture and within our approved Risk Appetite, making sound and risk informed decisions that align to business strategy, protect assets, and adhere to applicable policy documents (Frameworks, Policies, Standards, Procedures and Supporting documents), laws and regulations.