Software Engineering Manager leading Front End and Full Stack teams for Sun Life’s Canadian digital strategy. Managing talent, engineering standards, delivery roadmaps and team development.
Responsibilities
Manage structure and people within a team of Front End and Full Stack Developers
Coach and mentor staff to develop a high-performing, highly motivated and engaged team
Hire and retain full-time, offshore and third-party talent with a long-term resourcing focus
Monitor and evaluate performance through timely, regular feedback on personal and team goals
Track and monitor financial information for key activities
Develop and manage organizational expertise within software engineering
Work with delivery partners to evolve roadmaps and expected outcomes
Guide technical and process initiatives supporting Client objectives
Collaborate with peers to define and evolve standards and best practices
Ensure compliance with standards and Web Accessibility WCAG 2.1
Develop team-member capabilities through coaching, training and mentoring
Ensure teams have necessary equipment and tools
Promote learning aligned with industry trends and organizational goals
Report to the Software Engineering Director for Canadian IT
Requirements
5+ years of experience in Talent Management, including recruitment and selection, onboarding, coaching, performance management and development
Management expertise with Agile and Waterfall methodologies in a distributed development environment
Strong technical and business acumen
Software design knowledge and experience with application, data, security and infrastructure is a bonus
Bilingualism in French and English, both oral and written, required for Quebec-based candidates
Ability to work in a hybrid office and virtual arrangement based on business, Client and employee needs
Benefits
Competitive salary and bonus structure
Pension, stock and savings programs
Continuous learning and improvement environment
Flexible hours
Work from home options
Employee choice and flexibility to work from the office and virtually
Occasional travel to Montreal, Toronto and/or Waterloo
Development Manager leading 5 - 8 engineers modernizing AssetWorks fleet and asset management software. Driving AI - first, agent - driven development across Angular and .NET.
Engineering Manager leading mining and metals studies and engineering projects for AtkinsRéalis in Quebec. Overseeing multidisciplinary teams, budgets, schedules, technical quality, and client delivery.
Engineering Manager leading Marketing and Privacy Engineering at Affirm, a fintech enabling transparent pay - over - time purchases. Guiding privacy - aware web platforms, measurement systems, and high - performing engineering teams.
Engineering Manager leading software teams building reliable investment - transfer systems. Wealthsimple provides investing, trading, crypto, tax, spending, and saving products to Canadians.
Engineering Manager leading Scout, Daloopa’s AI - powered Excel financial modeling product. Building reliable ML/LLM systems and developing high - performing engineering teams.
Software Development Manager leading development of BrightOrder’s fleet - management SaaS platforms. Hands - on AWS architecture, production coding, delivery leadership, and engineering team growth.
Engineering Manager leading Governance & Access for Render, a developer - first cloud platform. Building identity, permissions, and agent - ready security primitives while scaling the team.
Software Development Manager leading PayByPhone’s SaaS vehicle services team. Driving architecture, delivery, hiring, service operations, and team growth.
Software Development Manager leading AI - forward engineering teams at Benevity, whose technology helps companies and employees take social action. Owning delivery, people leadership, cloud SaaS development and release adoption.
Software Development Manager leading AI - forward engineering teams at Benevity, a corporate social - impact technology company. Driving SaaS delivery, cloud development, team growth, and release adoption.