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Director Software Engineering - Global Software Leader
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Vancouver, BC
Full-time
12+ years building and operating production software, with 5+ years leading platform, infrastructure, or cloud engineering organizations.
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Director, AI Engineering – Enterprise AI
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Director, Software Engineering
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the primary focus is on advancing software engineering practices and
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Director of Software Engineering
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$130,000 to $140,000 CAD / year
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Senior Software Engineer (AI & Full Stack)
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MCAP

Director, Software Engineering

Waterloo, ON, Canada
Toronto, ON, Canada

Pay: Salary Range: $120,000 - $140,000
Job type: Full-time
Experience: 10+ years of IT experience, including 5+ years in an IT
Posting language: English
Posted: Jul 7, 2026

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Director, Software Engineering

MCAP at a Glance

Joining MCAP means you will be a part of our diverse workforce of highly talented individuals who are recognized for their expertise and success! At MCAP, your professional expertise, commitment to teamwork and passion for service excellence are recognized and rewarded with competitive total rewards offering, a career with continuous learning and development (formal & informal training), and exciting opportunities in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment.

The Role

This position will play a key role in advancing our AI journey by driving modernization and efficiency across the delivery lifecycle. This role is focused on helping engineering teams apply AI in practical, measurable ways to improve delivery speed, enhance quality, and reduce operational overhead across development and operational workflows.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role that bridges strategy and execution. You will partner closely with engineering, architecture, security, and delivery teams to design, prove, implement, and scale AI-enabled capabilities that strengthen software delivery outcomes. While the primary focus is on advancing software engineering practices and AI-assisted development, the role will also support broader AI adoption across the organization where it aligns to delivery and operational impact.

The successful candidate combines deep software engineering expertise, hands-on experience applying AI technologies to real-world engineering challenges, strong delivery discipline, and practical change leadership. You will help teams adopt AI responsibly by developing reusable playbooks, implementation patterns, and guardrails, along with validation approaches and human-in-the-loop workflows to ensure AI-enabled solutions are secure, compliant, high-quality, and maintainable, aligned with MCAP’s vision, mission, objectives, and values.

Strategy and Planning

Participates and provides input in the creation of 1 to 3 year IT strategic plans (Enterprise and
Business Unit specific)
Ensures applications meets business unit expectations
Facilitates and monitors the Application Architectural Decisions - 1 to 5 years
Fosters strong working relationships within the various internal IT teams and Business unit teams to understand future direction of initiatives.
Partners with the Line of Business in order to deliver Business Systems Applications that meet current and future business needs
Accountable for full life cycle of IT delivery for the Business Unit projects
Responsible for timely, on budget delivery of IT components of projects (major and tactical) as per the priorities set by the LOB and/or Resource Allocation Committee
Liaise with Architecture and Infrastructure teams to deploy and maintain solutions
Manages business units requests, that are approved and prioritized projects

Acquisition and Deployment

Direct research on emerging application development software products, languages, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts, including LLMs, agent frameworks, coding agents, and developer copilots.
Lead the evaluation and selection of AI development tools and platforms, including build-versus-buy decisions, model evaluation, and partnerships with external AI providers.
Performs detailed technical design of proposed solutions.
Evaluates relevant risks and determines mitigation strategies.
Identify requirements and manage the procurement process and vendor selection for new technologies.

Operational Management

Champion the company’s Vision, Mission and Values as set out in the Strategic Plan both internally and externally within the industry.
Recruit and develop the right people that believe in and reflect in their behavior MCAP’s Values and culture.
Establish, monitor and communicate performance standards to direct reports reinforcing individual results, work quality, continuous improvement, teamwork and achievement of MCAP’s objectives.
Educate, coach and counsel staff to ensure they are empowered to effectively handle their roles in a confident and professional manner.
Establish and maintain an effective system of communication throughout the business unit.
Ensure a continuous improvement culture is established and encouraged.
Assist in the definition of Corporate Guiding Principles, Architectural Standards and Design and the approved Solution Delivery Toolkit, incorporating AI-assisted development standards and patterns.
Assist with the strategic advancement of IT Methodologies
Assist with the selection of MCAP’s Solution Delivery Toolkit
Determine, define and support the metrics and measures required to ensure the success of MCAP IT overall
Work with LOB management to set and manage the Information Technology budget for the Business Unit
Ensure compliance with standards, procedures and methodologies and work with auditors to assess same
Capture, track and report IT Measures and Metrics
Work with Project Budgets and System Budgets
Signing Authority (based on authority matrix)

What You Bring To The Team

10+ years of IT experience, including 5+ years in an IT leadership role.
Experience building or integrating coding agents, developer copilots, workflow automation agents, or AI-enabled engineering tools.
Familiarity with LLMs, AI infrastructure, prompt engineering, agent frameworks, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, model evaluation, and AI governance practices.
Strong hands-on engineering background with modern application development, APIs, cloud-native patterns, CI/CD, automated testing, secure coding, and production support.
Experience defining and measuring developer-productivity or AI-adoption outcomes, with the judgment to handle the nuance of measuring engineering impact.
Strong understanding of secure software development, vulnerability detection, secrets management, data protection, and compliance considerations.
Demonstrated hands-on experience leading teams while actively contributing to solutions built with TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, and/or .NET.
Ability to balance risk, cost, and benefit
Ability to work in a fast paced environment with a high degree of change and competing priorities
Strong oral, written and presentation skills
Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to interface with all levels within the organization.
Strong problem-solving and conflict resolution skills
Excellent planning and project management skills
Demonstrated leadership experience mentoring and coaching others
Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks across multiple projects
Excellent attention to detail and results oriented
Working knowledge of cloud-native development practices and design patterns using private or public cloud providers
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

If this sounds like you and you are looking to be a part of one of Canada’s largest independent mortgage finance companies, then we want to hear from you!

Be A Part Of Something Great

MCAP is Canada’s largest independent Mortgage Finance company with over $150 billion in assets under management providing mortgage solutions for residential and commercial properties. For over 35 years, MCAP originates, trades, securitizes and services mortgages in offices across Canada. MCAP originates residential mortgages exclusively through the mortgage broker channel as we believe that a professional mortgage broker is a consumer's best option and MCAP actively promotes the services of mortgage brokers across the country. MCAP is also a leader in the Canadian residential construction lending market with over 25 years in the business. Our teams of dedicated professionals serve a variety of developer, construction and lender clients across Canada.

Position #: req2231

Employment Status: Permanent Full Time

Location: Waterloo; Ontario

Number Of Openings: 1

Department: Information Technology

Internal Job Title: Director, Software Engineering

Salary Range: $120,000 - $140,000

The above information in this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in the position. It is not designated to contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

MCAP provides equal opportunities for all applicants and is committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees feel valued, respected and supported throughout the recruitment and employment process. If you require accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs.

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Responsibilities

Lead the modernization of software delivery by integrating AI technologies, coding agents, and developer copilots into the engineering lifecycle. Partner with cross-functional teams to design and scale AI-enabled capabilities while managing IT budgets and strategic planning for the business unit.

Requirements

Requires over 10 years of IT experience with at least 5 years in leadership and a strong background in modern application development and AI infrastructure. A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering is required or equivalent practical experience.

Skills

AI Implementation
Software Engineering Leadership
LLMs
Prompt Engineering
Cloud-Native Patterns
CI/CD
Secure Coding
Project Management
Developer Productivity Metrics
API Design
Agent Frameworks
RAG
Technical Design
Vendor Selection
Change Leadership
Mentoring

Benefits

Competitive Total Rewards Offering
Continuous Learning And Development
Formal And Informal Training

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Keywords

AI
LLMs
Agent Frameworks
Coding Agents
Developer Copilots
RAG
Cloud-Native
CI/CD
Secure Software Development
API
IT Strategy
Software Engineering
Mortgage Finance
Prompt Engineering
Model Evaluation
AI Governance
Vulnerability Detection
Secrets Management
Data Protection
Solution Delivery Toolkit

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