Job Title: Development Manager – Lending Technology
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Hybrid)
Experience: 13+ Years
Domain: Banking / Financial Services / Lending
Role Type: Development Manager / Application Development Manager
Job Overview
We are seeking an experienced Development Manager – Lending Technology with 13+ years of IT experience and strong expertise in the Banking and Lending domain.
The ideal candidate will be responsible for leading large-scale application development and technology transformation initiatives, managing cross-functional engineering teams, multiple vendors, and senior business and technology stakeholders.
The candidate should possess a strong combination of technical leadership, lending domain expertise, delivery governance, and stakeholder management skills, with experience managing complex banking applications, integrations, and multiple development workstreams.
Key Responsibilities
Development & Delivery Leadership
- Lead end-to-end delivery of complex banking and lending technology initiatives, from requirements gathering and solution design through development, testing, implementation, and production stabilization.
- Manage multiple development workstreams and distributed onsite/offshore engineering teams.
- Establish development standards, engineering governance, code quality, release management, and production stability controls.
- Manage project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, budgets, resource allocation, and executive reporting.
- Drive Agile delivery across multiple development squads.
- Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, information security, risk, and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Provide leadership during critical production incidents, releases, and large-scale technology transformations.
Banking & Lending Domain Expertise
Strong understanding of the end-to-end lending lifecycle, including:
- Customer onboarding and loan origination.
- Loan application intake and processing.
- Credit assessment and underwriting.
- Credit decisioning and risk evaluation.
- Loan pricing and offer management.
- Documentation and fulfillment.
- Loan booking and disbursement.
- Loan servicing and account maintenance.
- Payments and collections.
- Delinquency and default management.
Banking Systems & Integrations
- Experience with consumer, commercial, mortgage, or small-business lending platforms.
- Understanding of integrations between lending applications and core banking systems.
- Experience working with customer master systems, credit bureaus, payment platforms, document management, CRM, risk, and fraud management systems.
- Ability to manage complex application ecosystems involving multiple integrations and dependent technology teams.
Required Qualifications
- 13+ years of overall IT experience.
- Strong experience in Development Management, Application Development Management, or Technology Delivery Leadership.
- Extensive experience in Banking, Financial Services, and Lending technology.
- Proven experience managing large-scale application development initiatives.
- Experience leading cross-functional, onsite, offshore, and vendor teams.
- Strong Agile delivery, project governance, risk management, and stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent communication and executive-level reporting capabilities.
