Application Development Manager Jobs

Applications Development Manager

$120-150K

North York

We are looking to hire an Applications Development Manager who will be responsible for managing onshore and offshore development teams, their deliverables, and capabilities across various project streams.

Our client offers 4 weeks vacation to start, 10 sick days, Flex Days, Hybrid working, Full benefits, Paternity leave top up, Up to 5% RRSP matching, Growth opportunities and more!!

Responsibilities:

People Management, Mentoring and coaching:

• Recruit and manage the onboarding of new Development team members.

• Provide technical mentoring and guidance to development team members.

Design and develop high quality and high performing solutions:

• Design and develop solutions as per requirements and in alignment to the application and architecture roadmap.

• Contributes to selection of the software development approach for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.

• Emphasis on writing simple and clean code with enhanced user experience mindset.

Support, Maintenance and Continuous improvement (Operations management):

• Responds to and anticipates customer needs in a timely professional, helpful, and courteous manner, and clearly shows their perspectives are valued.

• Maintain continuous, open, and consistent communication with others and builds on successful initiatives to gain support for ideas.

• Maintain learnings register and ensure learnings are shared across the development and wider teams.

• Maintain and monitor the performance measurements, statistics and system logs.

• Defines strategies for system optimizations

• Streamlining of operational processes

• Be on roster for Afterhours support of nightly jobs.

Risk and Compliance:

• Ownership of IT audits, Compliance issues, breaches and Applications Incident activities and remediation tasks.

• Lead reviews of IT audit processes and share the outcomes of the reviews with the Senior management.

Adherence to Standards and Frameworks:

• Identification, Implementation and adoption of new tools, frameworks, and guidelines.

• Ensure development practices and standards are implemented, adhered to, reviewed, and improved continuously.

• Identification, Implementation and reporting of Metrics to improve the code quality and team productivity.

Technical Documentation:

• Ensure solutions are documented by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.

• Create and share in-depth knowledge of systems using knowledge sharing sessions, documentation etc.

Qualifications:

• Experience in managing and implementing operational excellence across Application development teams.

• Experience from companies with call centre environments is highly preferred, and from Insurance or Financial Service would be an additional asset

• Strong understanding and adherence to SDLC processes, SOLID principles, OOPs and/or design patterns on new development / maintenance projects.

• 7+ years in leading and managing software development team members.

• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis on complex SQL and .NET applications/systems.

• Experience in developing documentation & handling technical debt.

• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop Agile teams with both technical and soft skills.

• Proven record of implementing automated unit tests.

• Drive for continuous improvement.

• Experience in Azure Devops best practices