Senior Development Manager – Application Development & Delivery

Iris's client, the largest bank in the Canada is looking to hire Senior Development Manager – Application Development & Delivery

Please find below the job details and share your resume if interested, please email your resume at sandeep.goel@irissoftware.com

Job Description:

Title: Senior Development Manager – Application Development & Delivery

Location: Toronto, ON (3 days HYBRID)

Duration: Long term assignment

Job Description

Role: Senior Development Manager – Application Development & Delivery

Industry: Banking & Financial Services (BFSI)

Experience: 15+ years, including 5+ years in development leadership

Team Size: 30–50 associates across multiple teams and vendors

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Development Manager to lead and oversee multiple application development teams within a complex banking technology environment. The role requires a strong combination of technical leadership, delivery governance, stakeholder management, and multi-vendor coordination.

The successful candidate will be accountable for end-to-end development delivery, managing 30–50 associates across multiple teams and technology partners, ensuring timely execution, engineering excellence, and alignment with business priorities.

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 roadmaps.
• 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.

Best Regards,

Sandeep Goyal

Address: 200 Metroplex Dr. Edison, NJ 08817

Cell: 732.426.8546

Email: sandeep.goel@irissoftware.com | www.irissoftware.com