Senior Application Development Manager
Scotiabank
- Toronto, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage the team (Direct and indirect reports) in area of project scheduling, technical direction, future planning and standard development practices.
- Work in the capacity of a SME to build a reconciliation platform for cash and securities.
- String technical background and experience in building large scale applications.
- Ensure proper support procedures and processes are in place to support the various existing production systems.
- Negotiate IT project requirements such as scope, schedule, cost, resources, integration, change, quality, etc…
- Manage communication with all area of the enterprise that impact scope, schedule, budget, risk & resources
- Build strong working relationship with peers within business lines and partners
- Participate in budgeting processes for department
- Establish and champion quality improvement activities for the department
- Accountable for managing assigned project and department budgets
- Participate in vendor product assessment and selection
- Meeting scheduled milestones to ensure project objectives are met in a timely manner and are in compliance with the IT technology Roadmap as well as other Bank's standards and/or external regulatory standards such as SOX
- Manage the department and project recruitment, retention, and staff performance.
- The incumbent is guided by Bank policy and receives general direction from the Director or VP.
- The incumbent is expected to function independently to ensure that the assigned tasks and project objectives are met.
- Degree in computer science, business, math or engineering related discipline is desirable, along with 8-10 years of practical experience.
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills
- Strong project management skills, able to multi-task and manage concurrent projects
- Strong leadership, mentoring, coaching and motivational skills.
- Strong and demonstrated ability to build lasting relationships with key stakeholders
- Strong vendor management skills, experience in negotiating contractual terms and managing offshore development teams.
- Disciplined in development methodology and familiar with software development technologies and concepts
- Excellent problem-solving skills have vision and innovative approach to computer-based solutions and ability to convey these ideas.
- Experience leading/supervising teams of 10 or more, ability to motivate staff
- Excellent time management and organizational skills in order to deliver projects in a timely manner and deal with conflicting priorities and tight deadlines.
- We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success!
- We provide you with the tools and technology needed to create beautiful customer experiences.
- You'll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world
- Onsite cafeteria.
- Dress codes don't apply here, being comfortable does.
- We offer a competitive total rewards package that includes a base salary, a performance bonus, company matching programs (pension & profit sharing), generous vacation, personal & sick days, personal development funding, maternity leave top-up, parental leave and much more.