Senior Application development Manager

Iris's client, one of the world's largest multinational Investment banking and financial services corporations, is looking to hire a Development Manager opportunity.

Work location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid Onsite)

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Key Responsibilities:

1. Development & Delivery Leadership

• Lead multiple development teams comprising 30–50 associates across internal teams and external technology vendors.
• Own end-to-end application development delivery, from solution design and development through testing, deployment, and production readiness.
• Drive execution across multiple concurrent initiatives, managing priorities, dependencies, risks, and delivery commitments.
• Ensure consistent adherence to SDLC, Agile methodologies, engineering standards, and release management processes.

2. Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence

• Provide technical oversight across applications, platforms, and integration points, ensuring scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.
• Collaborate with architects and technical leads on solution design, technology decisions, and complex technical challenges.
• Drive engineering best practices, including CI/CD, DevSecOps, automation, code quality, and technical debt reduction.

3. Multi-Vendor & Team Management

• Coordinate and govern delivery across multiple technology vendors, ensuring clear accountability, ownership, and performance expectations.
• Manage resource capacity, skill alignment, team utilization, and delivery dependencies across vendors.
• Establish consistent delivery standards, governance mechanisms, and performance metrics across teams.
• Mentor development leads and senior engineers, fostering collaboration, accountability, and high-performing teams.

4. Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Management

• Act as a key technology delivery partner to business stakeholders, product owners, architects, program managers, and senior IT leadership.
• Translate business priorities into actionable development plans and delivery road maps.
• Proactively manage cross-team dependencies, escalations, and delivery risks.
• Provide executive-level reporting on delivery progress, milestones, resource capacity, risks, and mitigation plans.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• 15+ years of IT experience, with significant experience leading enterprise application development and delivery.
• Proven experience managing 30+ associates across multiple development teams and vendors.
• Strong technical background in enterprise application development, architecture, APIs, integration, and modern technology platforms.
• Experience managing large-scale development programs within banking, financial services, or similarly regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery, SDLC, DevOps, CI/CD, and enterprise release management.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex cross-functional dependencies and multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Experience in vendor governance, resource planning, delivery performance management, and stakeholder engagement.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, decision-making, and executive stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with major Canadian or North American financial institutions.
• Familiarity with digital banking, core banking integrations, payments, lending, or regulatory technology initiatives.
• Experience with cloud platforms, microservices, Java-based enterprise applications, and modern engineering practices.
• Exposure to application modernization, platform transformation, and AI-assisted software engineering.