*CONTRACT TO PERM*- Senior Manager, Development - Securities Operations Technology - 39421

*CONTRACT TO PERM*- Senior Manager, Development - Securities Operations Technology - 39421

Location Address: Hybrid - Toronto - 1 day/week (Tuesdays, flexible)

Subject to change: 3-4 days onsite may be required based on business needs

Contract Duration: 6 months (MUST Convert to Perm)

Schedule Hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday; standard 37.5 hrs/week

FTE Salary Range: 100K-130K

Story Behind the Need

• Business group: GBME - Technology Solution - Global Banking and Markets Engineering (GBME) is the fast-moving, award-winning technology engine that powers bank’s Corporate, Investment Banking, and Capital Markets businesses.
• The purpose of the GCME Securities Operations Technology team is to provide technology support for the business applications and related processes and key technology vendors that underpin the activities of Global Wholesale Operations (GWO) both in Toronto and globally (follow the sun). Vendors and core applications include Broadridge BPS / IMPACT / GLOSS books of record and their related Bank interfaces, Vermeg / Colline collateral management platform, and NIAD new issue trading platform among others. The team partners with GWO and other global and vendor partners in delivering Technology Change related to the GCME Securities Operations Technology portfolio within defined risk and control frameworks.

Project/Role Overview:

• Leads and oversees Application Development under the GBME Securities Operations Technology portfolio ensuring business strategies, plans and initiatives are executed / delivered in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures. Manages the development and break-fix/L3 team. Contributes to the overall success of Technology for Global Banking and Markets by ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives.
• The individual in this role will manage a team of 5-15 developers - currently 6 development engineers (java)
• The individual in this role will support the Global Banking and Markets business and various corporate functions in Canada and globally.

Typical Day in Role:

• Manage and lead a geographically dispersed team. Recruit qualified staff; identify and address training and development needs. Monitor and assess individual and team capabilities / commitment / productivity / performance through timely completion of reviews, Performance Appraisals and Development Plans. Recognize and reward achievement, promoting group morale and cooperation. Review and act on employee surveys and other relevant feedback.
• Responsible for Data Integration of multiple external/internal platforms to bank’s data platforms and distribution of data across various business lines.
• Lead and drive a customer focused culture throughout their team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems, and knowledge.
• Ensure application development is performed in a professional, effective, and efficient manner.
• Effective analysis, design, development, and delivery of high availability & reliability applications which utilize different technology stacks (including Python, Java, Spring framework, Kafka, NoSQL, Kubernetes etc.) and orchestration tools (including Tidal and Airflow).
• Engage a broad range of stakeholders across Front, Middle, and Back office, Product Control, Risk management, Application Development, and Infrastructure teams to tailor development to business requirements.
• Show initiative in recommending innovative solutions and continuous improvements to the existing processes.
• Direct resources to critical development projects and prioritizes projects accordingly.
• Ensure that deliveries meet integrity, quality, performance, and reliability requirements by building automated testing and regression suites and use of DevOps principles.
• Collaborate with SROs and SRE (Regional and Global) for resiliency and recovery applications.
• Develop technical specifications for certain critical/complex modules as needed or review technical specifications from other developers.
• Develop certain critical/complex modules as needed and assist other developers particularly with more critical/complex modules.
• Acts as a lead for any Audit and Regulatory efforts related to Application Development, Change Management, and related areas and for Applications under ownership.
• Identify critical delivery issues and escalate them accordingly.
• Coordinate infrastructure needs for requisitioning Cloud based infrastructure, databases and assist actively with documentation requirements covering architecture, security and operational readiness.
• Ensure that development standards, tools and procedures are diligently used.
• Adhere to established enterprise standards and policies.
• Operating in agile environment
• Integration work is internal
• Ensuring blocker issues are addressed, reviewing quality
• Engaged with other tech leads and business leads on new and ongoing initiatives, providing estimates and scoping out the work etc.
• Required to do hands-on dev work, involved in delivery and ensuring everything is aligned
• Tech stack: java, GBM data platform - standard dull stack development
• Not only code review - need to be part of design discussions, providing estimates

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

1) 7-10 years of application development experience at a finical institution.

2) 3+ years of recent experience managing a team of developers overseeing multiple projects/efforts in parallel.

3) Expert knowledge of Core Java

4) Scripting language experience (preferably Python)

5) Experience supporting settlement operations, collateral management, margining

6) Experience in project effort estimation, Cost estimation and resource management.

7) Experience working with Agile methodologies and applying agile principles to drive iterative development.

8) Thorough knowledge and experience in all phases of SDLC; Good working knowledge of Gradle, Maven, SVN, JIRA etc.

9) Good experience working with databases such as SQL server, Oracle with expert SQL knowledge.

Nice-To-Have Skills:

1) Experience with Broadridge core applications (BPS / IMPACT / GLOSS)

2) Expert level knowledge of Operating system concepts specifically Linux and Windows.

3) Experience with the following regulatory agencies preferred: Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York Dept. of Financial Services (NYDFS), Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodities Future Trading Commission (CFTC), and National Futures Association.

4) Specific regulatory or compliance knowledge

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in a related field required, advanced degree preferred.

Best VS. Average Candidate:

Best will be someone who has had experience in this role at this level and are coming in for additional experience v.s. someone who is senior dev and has not managed a team previously - need someone who can hit the ground running

Strong development background, capital markets knowledge and experience

Candidate Review & Selection - Interview Process

1-2 rounds - MS Teams Video Interviews - 45 minutes

1st with HM and Director

2nd panel with HM’s VP and potential 1 other