Development / Technical Lead

Position Title: Development / Technical Lead
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
Estimated Duration: 3 months

Story Behind the Need
Business group: Client Engineering – Mobile and Web – The Digital Engineering Operations team is responsible for the production support and operation of the Bank’s retail Digital Channels (client OnLine and Mobile Banking); Online brokerage; Mobile Payments and related production applications.
Project: Contractor will be supporting steady state applications, online brokerage, mobile iTrade, global banking – next generation desktop applications for online brokerage user journeys

Candidate Value Proposition:
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to be part of a great team culture, within a team works together well; gain exposure to different areas of the bank, not only in technology, but different product lines, vendors; there is a chance to explore interests and work towards them. Working in client digital/digital banking puts you at the forefront of the field and there is visibility – successes and challenges are visible to the team and can help define a career path.

Typical Day in Role:

• The incumbent is responsible for the maintenance, support and change control of Bank's digital channel operations. She/he will be part of a team that will be responsible for incident/problem management of client Online brokerage, Mobile brokerage and related production change
• If not on call, intake scalations from customer facing teams, in form of Service Now tickets; if customer is having issues trading, viewing accounts – use different tools to investigate,
• Look at databases and understand how they are set up, understand Dynatrace and Splunk
• Understand what customer experience is; understand root cause analysis, triage with tech partners; infrastructure teams, vendors, products groups to understand experience per requirement, know who to go to when fixing it
• When on call – also escalate based on priority and based on user population and scale; instead of working via email or teams, will be doing so via a Bridge call – with vendors, tech partners product groups, will also be paged; escalations triggered via auto alert via customer complaint.
• On a day to day, will be working on 5-20 tickets – depending on complexity
• The incumbent will perform a liaison role and ongoing interaction between various units including, but not limited to: Canadian Banking; client Digital; Technology partners; Customer facing staff; QA departments; Vendors; Product groups; Business lines
• Direct day-to-day activities in a manner consistent with our risk culture and the relevant risk appetite statement and limits and communicate it throughout the team.
• Position will be focused on leadership, building knowledge base, managing various vendor relationships and the customer impact associated with scheduled and unscheduled production events.
• Create an environment in which your team pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to risk and compliance
• Willingness to work outside of the traditional work week and requires continual shifting of priorities. The role requires attention after hours and on call support
• Assist in the development of processes designed to report, analyze and resolve problems with the objective of mitigating the associated operational, reputational, financial, and regulatory risks.
• Demonstrate leadership abilities and collaborate effectively with various technology and product partners.
• Be curious as the skill set and product knowledge will be ever evolving
• Must be flexible to adapt to a dynamic environment, balance simultaneous priorities and make quick and sound decisions under pressure

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 10+ years’ experience working in a related IT field, with 2+ years’ experience leading in agile methodologies with cross functional teams
• 3 + years supporting wealth management / investment use cases
• 3 + years’ experience in performing SQL queries / reports or Database administration
• 3 + years utilizing performance and capacity management tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, CA Introscope & Datadog, Gomez or New Relic
• 2 + years’ experience with enterprise collaboration tools: JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, Service Now

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• 2 + years in an application support / SRE (system reliability engineering) capacity, including incident and problem management
• Experience with microservice architecture and Cloud computing technologies – Kubernetes / Docker; GKE; Azure PCF
• Experience monitoring and maintaining applications hosted within Unix/ Linux-based servers.
• Experience from a major Canadian financial institution (especially in wealth management)
• Experience in order routing vendors such as Fidessa FIX gateway or IRESS

Soft Skills Required:

• Effective communication and diplomacy skills are required to liaise between groups of varying technical expertise and interests.
• Demonstrate leadership abilities and collaborate effectively with various technology and product partners.
• Curious and experimental mindset to drive innovation amidst uncertainty
• Must be flexible to adapt to a dynamic environment, balance simultaneous priorities and make quick and sound decisions under pressure
• Strong logical thinking in understanding end to end use cases, as well as mapping them to system flows

Education:

• Post-secondary degree in a related field (technical or business)

Best VS. Average Candidate:
Best either has a good business background OR a strong incident management technical background, and HM/team can teach in the area there is a gap in; someone who is able to articulate business impact well in their communication skills, can demonstrate understanding of Dynatrace, cloud computing technologies