Development Manager - Fulltime
- Toronto, ON, Canada
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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.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end delivery of banking and lending technology initiatives, managing development workstreams, distributed teams, vendors, budgets, risks, and delivery governance. Ensure engineering quality, regulatory and security alignment, stable production operations, and effective coordination with business and technology stakeholders.
Requirements
Requires 13+ years of IT experience, including substantial development or application management leadership in banking, financial services, and lending technology. Candidates should have experience leading large-scale initiatives and cross-functional onsite, offshore, and vendor teams, with strong Agile delivery, governance, risk, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills.
Skills
- Development Management
- Application Development
- Banking
- Lending Technology
- Agile Delivery
- Project Governance
- Stakeholder Management
- Team Leadership
- Vendor Management
- Risk Management
- Executive Reporting
- Release Management
- Production Stability
- Systems Integration
- Credit Assessment
- Loan Origination
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Categories
- Technology
- Management & Leadership
- Software
- Finance & Accounting
Keywords
- Banking
- Financial Services
- Lending Technology
- Application Development
- Development Management
- Technology Transformation
- Agile
- Enterprise Architecture
- Information Security
- Regulatory Compliance
- Loan Origination
- Credit Assessment
- Underwriting
- Credit Decisioning
- Risk Evaluation
- Loan Pricing
- Loan Servicing
- Payments
- Collections
- Core Banking Systems
- Customer Master Systems
- Credit Bureaus
- Payment Platforms
- Document Management
- CRM
- Fraud Management
- Release Management
- Production Stabilization
- Project Governance
- Onsite and Offshore Teams