Title:  Senior Manager, Application and Solution Architecture - Tangerine

Requisition ID: 258995

Tangerine is Canada’s leading direct bank. We offer flexible and accessible banking options, innovative products, and award-winning Client service. The reason why Tangerine employees come to work each day is to help Canadians live better lives. We focus on making a difference in our communities, and that includes our own internal community. It’s important to us that our employees feel empowered and enthusiastic about belonging to our Orange culture.

Are you ready to make the change and become part of an established disruptor with the backing of a highly engaged team? If so come join us and help redefine the Canadian banking landscape!

You will be managing a group of architects responsible for technical enablement and ongoing improvement of our industry leading digital banking experience.

• You are a hands-on manager with a startup mindset and deep technical skills, applying creativity and passion to explore opportunities for elevating both our technical platform and delivery practices to levels that the industry will want to mimic, while delivering to our current commitments.
• You pride yourself on building highly adaptive teams through coaching and hands on examples of new and better ways to meet the needs of your customers.  You strive for a higher sense of purpose and a desire to create business value.
• You will provide overall leadership and technical guidance that enables creative delivery of solutions spanning mobile and web applications, integrations, backend services and APIs.
• You will take responsibility for refining the application architecture and technical delivery ‘vision’, ensuring that every member of the team keeps that vision clearly in mind. You will partner with Enterprise Architecture towards refining the engineering roadmap and will work with other Engineering leaders and stakeholders on applying the engineering OKRs to optimize strategic Engineering KPI’s.
• You will leverage your natural leadership skills taking responsibility for ensuring that software is delivered on time, on budget and in a way that meets the business expectations.

Is this role right for you?

• On any given day you want to champion and look for avenues to further refine Tangerine’s high performance engineering culture so we can keep moving, learning and creating the most value the fastest, with the least amount of effort
• You relentlessly pursue avenues to address issues proactively, through ongoing refinement of technical platform and delivery model
• When need arises you want to roll up your sleeves to get into the technical weeds, you will examine existing designs and propose modern, meaningful, and cost-effective solutions, you will whiteboard solutions and debate them with senior developers, architects and business stakeholders
• You dream about DevOps, microservices, cloud, XaaS, and occasionally have fun writing code in your free time
• You are able to take a vision statement or high-level problem and work with your team and various stakeholders to successfully execute against

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role?

• 10+ years of software development experience with clear progression through ranks, and 3+ years leading and building high performance teams
• 5+ years of software & solution architecture with proven track record of building a product and taking it to market
• Deep passion for software engineering and innovation coupled with a positive attitude, thirst for knowledge, team oriented, pragmatic, and willing to fail
• Significant hands-on experience with multiple programing languages and SOLID principles adept, experience with a wide spectrum of technologies with emphasis on low latency, scalable, fault tolerant platforms/applications with 24-7 availability
• Practical expertise on agile delivery with deep understating of core agile concepts and practices, you live and breathe DevOps
• You are eager to mentor, teach, share and learn
• STEM education, preferably Computer Science, Programming, Engineering or a related field

What's in it for you?

• We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success!
• Currently all our teams are working fully remotely
• Remote work continuation to be considered post pandemic
• Dress codes don't apply here, being comfortable does
• Access to thousands of online and in person courses so you can brush up on skills or learn new ones
• Career progression opportunities. We hire you for your talent and not just for the job. We want to see you succeed not just in your role but in your career as a whole
• We offer a competitive total rewards package that includes a base salary, a performance bonus, company matching programs (on pension & profit sharing), vacation, personal & sick days, paternity/maternity leave, medical, vision and dental benefits and much more

Location(s):  Canada : Ontario : Toronto

At Tangerine we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the team, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment. If you require accommodation during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know.