Manager Development FCC

Fidelity Canada • Toronto, ON

7d • 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 back-end development team and the delivery of products and services for a range of external clients and internal business lines, ensuring alignment with business objectives, operational priorities, and client commitments. The position requires prioritizing activities, managing team capacity, and allocating resources consistent with business strategy, platform roadmaps, operational priorities, production support needs, and client commitments. Coordination with technology, architecture, product, business, operations, information security, and vendor teams is essential. The role provides oversight during code releases, deployments, application upgrades, Level 3 production support activities, incident response, root-cause analysis, and defect remediation for core business processes. Additionally, it involves managing and supporting complex enterprise job scheduling processes using Control-M, including batch orchestration, dependency management, monitoring, incident response, and recovery for business-critical data processing workflows. Coordination of development efforts related to start-of-day data loading, scheduled data extraction, report generation, file-based integrations, reconciliation processing, exception handling, restart/retry procedures, and data quality controls across upstream and downstream systems is also a key aspect. Ensuring strict unit testing practices, integration testing, broader automated testing, security considerations, post-implementation reviews, and operational readiness activities are completed against defined success criteria is crucial. The role requires providing ongoing communication on development status, production support priorities, delivery risks, dependencies, and operational readiness to senior management, supporting work effort estimation, roadmap planning, and determination of deliverable timelines. Positively influencing architecture, design, coding, testing, AI enablement, and secure integration practices is expected. Liaising with internal and external user groups as needed and effectively working in an agile environment is also part of the role. The manager will allocate, monitor, and plan the tasks of team members using agile practices, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily coordination, and continuous improvement. The role includes leading and supporting back-end application development, including Java REST services, complex SQL and database design, RESTful API integrations, microservices/service-oriented architecture, event-driven messaging, and secure integration patterns. Support for application maintenance, currency updates, technical debt reduction, reliability improvements, and modernization of key business applications is also required. Providing mentorship, coaching, feedback, and training to enable team members to meet or exceed expectations, grow their technical capabilities, and support team succession and bench strength is a key responsibility. Conducting performance assessments of team members, setting clear objectives, addressing performance gaps, supporting career development plans, and building a high-performing, accountable engineering team are also integral to this position.

Requirements

• 5+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with experience moving from hands-on delivery into technical leadership or engineering management responsibilities.
• 3+ years of direct engineering management experience, with a proven track record of managing performance, hiring, onboarding, coaching, career development, and building successful teams.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly with developers, architecture, operations, business partners, vendors, and senior stakeholders.
• Familiarity with secure coding principles and experience ensuring security tooling, secure SDLC controls, and best practices are integrated into team delivery practices.
• Expertise leading modern software development practices, including Agile/Scrum, CI/CD pipelines, release discipline, engineering standards, and continuous improvement across development teams.
• Experience supporting or coordinating complex job scheduler-based processing using Control-M or similar enterprise scheduling platforms, including data loading, extraction, reporting, dependency management, and operational recovery.
• Experience managing teams that have built and supported complex systems with multiple dependencies, with a focus on data processing from book-of-record and downstream platforms.
• Strong understanding of MS SQL Server and/or Oracle, including how to manage delivery and support for business-critical database platforms and complex data models.
• Ability to lead database and data-processing delivery by ensuring strong SQL practices, complex database design, query building, query tuning, performance improvement, and supportability are built into team solutions.
• Ability to guide, challenge, and approve technical direction from a managerial perspective across Java, REST services, microservices/service-oriented architecture, secure API patterns, event-driven messaging, and core back-end platforms.
• Experience managing team capacity, sprint commitments, production support demands, stakeholder expectations, delivery risks, and competing business priorities in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Strong people leadership skills, including performance management, feedback delivery, conflict resolution, team engagement, talent development, succession planning, and support for hybrid/remote team effectiveness.
• Demonstrated ability to lead Team Leads and Developers by setting clear expectations, delegating effectively, removing blockers, creating accountability, and maintaining delivery discipline across multiple priorities.
• 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.
• Experience with, or a strong operational interest in leveraging AI tools to accelerate software development, testing, code review, delivery planning, and engineering productivity processes.
• Completion of the Canadian Securities Course.
• Wealth management, brokerage, payments, banking, or broader fintech experience.
• Experience integrating AI-enabled development assistants, code review tools, test generation tools, or developer productivity capabilities into engineering practices.
• Experience with Dataphile, Broadridge, Snowflake, Talend, Control-M, or similar financial data processing, ETL, and enterprise scheduling platforms.
• Experience with modern web frameworks such as Angular or React.

Responsibilities

• Manage the back-end development team and delivery of products and services for a range of external clients and internal business lines, ensuring alignment with business objectives, operational priorities, and client commitments.
• Prioritize activities, manage team capacity, and allocate resources consistent with business strategy, platform roadmaps, operational priorities, production support needs, and client commitments.
• Coordinate activities with technology, architecture, product, business, operations, information security, and vendor teams.
• Provide oversight during code releases, deployments, application upgrades, Level 3 production support activities, incident response, root-cause analysis, and defect remediation for core business processes.
• Manage and support complex enterprise job scheduling processes using Control-M, including batch orchestration, dependency management, monitoring, incident response, and recovery for business-critical data processing workflows.
• Coordinate development efforts related to start-of-day data loading, scheduled data extraction, report generation, file-based integrations, reconciliation processing, exception handling, restart/retry procedures, and data quality controls across upstream and downstream systems.
• Ensure strict unit testing practices, integration testing, broader automated testing, security considerations, post-implementation reviews, and operational readiness activities are completed against defined success criteria.
• Provide ongoing communication on development status, production support priorities, delivery risks, dependencies, and operational readiness 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 back-end application development, including Java REST services, complex SQL and database design, RESTful API integrations, microservices/service-oriented architecture, event-driven messaging, and secure integration patterns.
• Support application maintenance, currency updates, technical debt reduction, reliability improvements, and modernization of key business applications.
• Provide mentorship, coaching, feedback, and training to enable team members to meet or exceed expectations, grow their technical capabilities, and support team succession and bench strength.
• Conduct performance assessments of team members, set clear objectives, address performance gaps, support career development plans, and build a high-performing, accountable engineering team.

Benefits

• Competitive annual range of $176,000 to $188,000, based on your experience and qualifications.
• RRSP Contribution: After 6 months of employment, we invest in your future with an RRSP contribution—no employee matching required.
• Compensation package that aligns with provincial pay transparency requirements.

What This Job Offers

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