Manager, Application Development - Ottawa, Canada - Mitacs

Mitacs

Verified Company

Ottawa, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

_This position can be fully remote or hybrid near Mitacs offices in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa or Vancouver
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_ Do you want to be part of our innovative and entrepreneurial team?_

Do you thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and enjoy working in a team atmosphere? Are you an "outside the box" thinker who strives to implement continuous improvements? Do you take a strategic approach to your work? Do you enjoy in a fastpaced culture where your opinions are valued and respected? Do you enjoy building partnerships to solve mutually beneficial challenges?_
Mitacs is a national notforprofit that helps industry and nonprofit partners solve strategic challenges by leveraging Canada's worldclass postsecondary talent and a global network of industry, academic, and government partnerships. Through these collaborations, Mitacs helps business and community partners succeed, improves students' onthejob skills development, and strengthens Canada's worldclass innovation ecosystem. At Mitacs, we strive to develop the next generation of innovators with vital research and business skills. In partnership with domestic and international companies, governments, and academia, we support a new economy using Canada's most valuable resource its people._

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Manager, Application Development

As Application Development Manager, you will be accountable for leading, coaching and nurturing the development team in delivering and supporting working features in both Front Office and Back-office software products.

You will also work collaboratively with business stakeholders, Product Managers, the Data Platform Manager, IT Security, and IT infrastructure teams and/or external vendors.

This position is expected to be highly technical but also a good liaison between functional and technical teams.

If you also seek to make a great impact in the Canadian Innovation ecosystem and are willing to put your energy and technology expertise to work for a purposeful cause, you are very welcome to apply.

Responsibilities

Lead the software Development teams including Tech Leads, Software Developers, DevOps engineers by promoting autonomy and providing technical guidance while holding them accountable for their goals.
Manage external Development contractors work and relationship, including their allocation, performance, and budget.
Recruit internal and external Development positions when necessary.
Contribute with code peer reviews and provide team feedback and guidance when necessary.
Analyze the technical design and architecture for new solutions ensuring reusability and interoperability among different products and services.
Encourage the team to leverage existing technology such as Software as a Service, APIs, Native Cloud Services, and opensource codes before any custom development.
Own the development lifecycle processes and performance metrics such as team velocity and code coverage.
Work together with the QA Manager in improving the quality of the development work and reducing software defects and release disruptions.
Work together with Data Platform team in building and maintaining databases.
Promote the best practices of Agile (Scrum or SAFe) and DevOps.
Join Agile ceremonies when required and actively support the team during PI Planning.
Own the Development tools, frameworks and platforms, including keeping the relationship with vendors, monitoring support lifecycle and security patches, and their contracts and budgets (e.g. Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Terraform etc.).
Support the implementation of a release management practices by defining the development and CI/CD pipeline and enhancing automation on Blue/Green deployment, feature flag etc.
Partake on Cyber Security best practices, audits, trainings and actively act in case of any incident.
Work in collaboration with the infrastructure team in pursuing the best use of Azure Cloud Services, its tools, and capabilities.
Assist in troubleshooting critical incidents and keep stakeholders informed when necessary.
Review Software Change Requests and participate in CAB meetings.
Research for new technologies and methods and keep curiosity among the team members to continue learning and exploring new technologies.
Follow business decisions, metrics and what is going on in the scientific research and academic communities around the organization.

Experience:

5+ years of people management experience leading Software development and DevOps engineers (10+ team members).
Proficient coding or leading developers in JavaScript, C# and Python.
Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and prior experience working in Scrums or SAFe frameworks.
Knowledge in Cloud Services technologies such as Azure or equivalent.
Prior experience working in CRM/ERP platforms such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 (preferable) or equ