Manager Development FCC

Fidelity Canada • Toronto, ON

2d • CA$176,000 - CA$188,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Manager, Development is accountable for development team activities as part of the development, enhancement, maintenance, and modernization process when delivering client-facing web solutions and secure integration points. This role involves managing the development team and the delivery of products and services for a range of internal and external clients, ensuring alignment with business objectives and goals. The position requires prioritizing activities and allocating resources consistent with business strategy, platform roadmaps, operational priorities, and client commitments. Coordination with various teams including technology, architecture, product, business, operations, information security, and vendors is essential. The role also includes providing oversight during code releases, deployments, application upgrades, production support activities, and defect remediation. Ensuring unit testing, integration testing, security considerations, post-implementation reviews, and operational readiness activities are completed against defined success criteria is a key responsibility. The Manager, Development will provide ongoing communication on development status to senior management, support work effort estimation, roadmap planning, and determination of deliverable timelines. A significant aspect of the role is to positively influence architecture, design, coding, testing, AI enablement, and secure integration practices. Liaising with internal and external user groups and effectively working in an agile environment are also crucial. The role involves allocating, monitoring, and planning the tasks of team members using agile practices, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily coordination, and continuous improvement. Specific technical leadership includes supporting cloud-native web application development, such as Java REST services, Angular or React front ends, AWS-based services, RESTful API integrations, and OAuth/OpenID Connect security patterns. Additionally, the role supports application maintenance, currency updates, technical debt reduction, reliability improvements, and modernization of key business applications. Identifying opportunities to responsibly leverage AI tools to accelerate software development, testing, code review, and engineering productivity is expected. Providing mentorship, coaching, and training to team members to meet or exceed expectations, along with conducting performance assessments and supporting career development plans, are integral parts of the role.

Requirements

• 5+ years of progressive software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of direct engineering management experience, with a proven track record of managing performance, hiring, and building successful teams.
• Strong architectural understanding of core technologies including Java REST and modern web frameworks such as Angular or React.
• Experience managing teams that build and scale cloud-native applications using AWS technologies such as Lambda, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, and API Gateway.
• Deep understanding of microservices, service-oriented architecture (SOA), RESTful APIs, and event-driven messaging technologies.
• Expertise in modern software development practices, including Agile/Scrum, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform.
• Proven track record of defining and enforcing strict unit testing practices to maintain high code coverage.
• Familiarity with secure coding principles and experience integrating security tooling and best practices into the SDLC.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Experience with, or a strong operational interest in, leveraging AI tools to accelerate software development, testing, and code review processes.
• Ability to lead hybrid teams with a mix of onsite and remote developers, while maintaining team engagement, delivery discipline, and clear communication.
• University Degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• Wealth management, brokerage, payments, banking, or broader fintech experience is considered an asset.
• Completion of the Canadian Securities Course.
• Previous experience successfully managing a group of developers, including Team Leads and individual contributors.
• Strong technical insight and experience to inform, guide, challenge, and support technical decisions across web, cloud, integration, application security, database, and application maintenance domains.
• Strong analytical, conceptual, and innovative problem-solving abilities combined with attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, business partners, vendors, and senior stakeholders.
• Good multitasking capabilities and the ability to work effectively in an agile environment with multiple priorities and delivery streams.
• A continuous-improvement mindset with the ability to balance new feature delivery, operational stability, application maintenance, and modernization objectives.

Responsibilities

• Manage the development team and delivery of products and services for a range of internal and external clients, ensuring alignment with business objectives and goals.
• Prioritize activities and allocate resources consistent with business strategy, platform roadmaps, operational priorities, and client commitments.
• Coordinate activities with technology, architecture, product, business, operations, information security, and vendor teams.
• Provide oversight during code releases, deployments, application upgrades, production support activities, and defect remediation.
• Ensure unit testing, integration testing, security considerations, post-implementation reviews, and operational readiness activities are completed against defined success criteria.
• Provide ongoing communication on development status to senior management, support work effort estimation, roadmap planning, and determination of deliverable timelines.
• Positively influence architecture, design, coding, testing, AI enablement, and secure integration practices.
• Liaise with internal and external user groups as needed and effectively work in an agile environment.
• Allocate, monitor, and plan the tasks of team members using agile practices, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily coordination, and continuous improvement.
• Lead and support cloud-native web application development, including Java REST services, Angular or React front ends, AWS-based services, RESTful API integrations, and OAuth/OpenID Connect security patterns.
• Support application maintenance, currency updates, technical debt reduction, reliability improvements, and modernization of key business applications.
• Identify opportunities to responsibly leverage AI tools to accelerate software development, testing, code review, and engineering productivity.
• Provide mentorship and coaching to team members.
• Provide training to enable team members to meet or exceed expectations.
• Conduct performance assessments of team members and support career development plans.

Benefits

• Competitive annual range of $176,000 to $188,000, based on your experience and qualifications.
• RRSP contribution after 6 months of employment (no employee matching required).
• Awards: Canada's Top 100 Employers, Greater Toronto's Top Employers, Canada's Top Family-Friendly Employers, Canada's Top Employers for Young People, Great Place To Work® Certified, Best Workplaces for Inclusion, Best Workplaces for Mental Wellness, Best Workplaces for Today's Youth, Best Workplaces for Women, Best Workplaces in Financial Services & Insurance, Best Workplaces in Ontario, Best Workplaces with Most Trusted Executive Teams, LinkedIn Top Companies in Canada, Human Resource Director (HRD) - Best Place To Work, HRD - 5-Star Benefit Program, HRD - 5-Star Diversity & Inclusion Employer Designations, Canadian Compassionate Companies – Certified, Benefits Canada's Workplace Benefits Award - Future of Work Strategy, TalentEgg National Recruitment Excellence Award - Special Award for Diversity & Inclusion in Recruiting, Canadian HR Reporter's Most Innovative HR Team.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Associate degree