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Director, Engineering – Digital Banking Applications Development - FR R250016756 Toronto

Bank of Montreal (BMO)

Toronto, Ontario

Director, Engineering – Digital Banking Applications Development - FR R250016756 Toronto

Bank of Montreal (BMO)

Toronto, Ontario
 
Salary: $121,600.00 - $211,800.00
 

Date limite pour présenter sa candidature :

09/01/2025

Adresse :

33 Dundas Street West

Groupe de famille d'emploi :

  Technologie

Are you a visionary technology leader ready to shape the future of digital banking? We’re seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the development, modernization, and ongoing evolution of our Digital Banking Applications, including mobile banking and self-serve sales platforms. This is a high-impact role at the forefront of our digital transformation journey — where innovation, agility, and next-gen technology meet customer-centric banking. Join us as we improve, build and reimagine how banking is delivered through scalable architecture, AI-driven efficiency, and cloud-first solutions. If you thrive in a high-velocity, fast-paced environment and love to challenge the status quo, this is your chance to lead teams that are building the future of banking.

This is a HYBRID role

What You’ll Be Doing:

  • Lead with Purpose: Guide 10+ agile teams in delivering digital banking capabilities with a focus on quality, speed, and scalability.

  • Drive Innovation: Partner with business and technology stakeholders to define and deliver on the platform strategy, integrating AI, cloud, and automation at scale.

  • Modernize & Transform: Help drive the transition away from legacy systems toward cutting-edge cloud-native architectures and tools.

  • Enhance Team Performance: Improve team velocity and software development lifecycle (SDLC) maturity by elevating code quality, automation, and DevSecOps practices.

  • Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate platform strategy, KPIs, and project progress to senior leaders and executives with clarity and influence.

  • Operational Excellence: Ensure platforms meet regulatory, security, and accessibility standards, while continuously optimizing system performance and reliability.

  • Mentorship & Talent Growth: Attract, retain, and develop high-performing engineering talent and foster an inclusive, innovative team culture.

What Skills do you bring?

Technical Mastery:

  • Extensive background in enterprise architecture, Java (J2EE, SpringBoot), Linux, OpenShift,  and application server management (WebSphere, IHS), with a focus on leading and guiding technical teams in these areas.

  • Experience working with and overseeing teams utilizing cloud technologies (AWS Lambda, AWS ECS Fargate) and modern development frameworks (Angular, NodeJS).

  • Highly skilled in managing teams responsible for DevSecOps tools such as GitHub, Azure DevOps, Ansible, and automation/configuration with YAML.

  • Strong track record leading teams in system integration using XML and JSON, and in managing code quality and artifacts with SonarQube and Artifactory.

  • Demonstrated ability to deliver secure, scalable solutions, with proven leadership and collaboration skills.

Leadership & Soft Skills Mastery:

  • At least 6+ yrs of experience in previous people-manager roles with expertise in leading large teams (25+ direct reports)  with a focus on quality, speed, and scalability.

  • Ownership and accountability mindset – you take full accountability for delivery, and quality of projects.  You thrive on owning and understanding “the stack”.

  • Strategic and analytical thinker who challenges norms and brings fresh, forward-thinking solutions.

  • Exceptional verbal and written communication and presentation skills – able to create and deliver Executive-ready PowerPoint slides, updates and Town Hall presentations.

  • Influential collaborator – builds bridges across teams, functions, and hierarchies.

  • Strong team player and relationship-builder with a superior ability to work both horizontally and vertically, and see the “big picture” on how different teams can work together .

  • Ability to break down silos and work with others to achieve a common goal

  • Ability to lead difficult conversations with team and give meaningful feedback with empathy and clarity.

  • Thrives under pressure – can balance multiple competing priorities in a high velocity, rapidly evolving environment  with a highly demanding workload

CORE Responsibilities:  

  • Communicate effectively with executive stakeholders to influence decision-making and report on platform strategy, performance, and innovation.

  • Lead the project delivery, stability, security, and ongoing innovation (including the use of AI tooling) of customer-facing and internal technology platforms.

  • Develop and execute platform strategies and roadmaps, ensuring alignment across technology, design, security, and business teams.

  • Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, vendors, and cross-functional partners to achieve business objectives.

  • Track, analyze, and optimize platform health, adoption, and performance metrics for continuous improvement.

  • Ensure compliance with service, security, accessibility, and regulatory standards, including effective vendor management.

  • Oversee clear documentation of business rules, technical specifications, and process flows to support transparency and operational excellence as well as accurate estimation, forecasting and project working plans.

  • Attract, develop, and coach top talent, fostering a high-performance, diverse, and inclusive team culture.

  • Operate in a fast-paced environment and manage competing priorities with tight deadlines

What Sets You Apart?   The top-performing candidate is more than just a strong engineer — they’re a strategic thinker, a change agent, and a people-first leader who sees the big picture. You’ll drive releases, unlock value through AI innovation, and build teams that deliver reliably and fearlessly.

Why Join Us?   This is more than just a technology role — it’s a career-defining leadership opportunity. You’ll be part of a growing, forward-thinking bank with a bold vision to lead in the digital banking space. We’ve invested in automation, cloud, and AI — and we’re just getting started. With a strong North American footprint, we’re committed to building the best digital experience in banking, and we want you on that journey.

Ready to lead digital innovation at scale?   Apply now to help shape the future of banking.

Additional Details:

Prioritizes and supports the work of customer-facing and/or internal platforms. Tracks and maintains platform health scores as well as adoption rate. Manages the stability, accessibility, scalability, security and support innovation of the platform. Coordinates the activities of technology, design, security and marketing, to develop platform strategies, roadmaps, and execution. Manages the relationship with vendors for support, compliance, license tracking and any other needs.

  • Builds relationships with and works with stakeholders to understand the platform vision, align and deliver on the roadmap.
  • Documents business rules, functional/technical specifications, and process interpretations for assigned applications, process flows, systems, and business solutions​.
  • Analyzes platform data to drive and implement optimizations​.
  • Undertakes prioritization of work of a component or group of components that are used by customers/end users​.
  • Understands the competitive and strategic position of the organization, in order to deliver best-in-industry products​.
  • Ensures compliance with service and support agreements​ and standards.
  • Manages technical requirements e.g. APIs and other platform components with a focus on security and resilience to protect end-users.
  • Fosters a culture aligned to BMO purpose, values and strategy and role models BMO values and behaviours in all that they do.
  • Ensures alignment between values and behaviour that fosters diversity and inclusion.
  • Regularly connects work to BMO’s purpose, sets inspirational goals, defines clear expected outcomes, and ensures clear accountability for follow through.
  • Builds interdependent teams that collaborate across functional and operating groups to create the highest value for all stakeholders.
  • Attracts, retains, and enables the career development of top talent.
  • Improves team performance, recognizes and rewards performance, coaches employees, supports their development, and manages poor performance.
  • Operates at a group/enterprise-wide level and serves as a senior specialist resource across BMO.
  • Influences how teams/groups work together.
  • Applies expertise and thinks creatively to address unique or ambiguous situations and to find solutions to multiple, interdependent, complex problems.
  • Communicates abstract concepts in simple terms.
  • Fosters strong internal and external networks and works with and across multiple teams to achieve business objectives.
  • Anticipates trends and responds by implementing appropriate changes.
  • Broader work or accountabilities may be assigned as needed.

Qualifications:

Advanced level of proficiency:

  • New product development.
  • User interface and user experience (UI/UX) design.
  • Cybersecurity and privacy concepts, principles and solutions.
  • Learning Agility.
  • Creative thinking.
  • Emotional agility.

Expert level of proficiency:

  • System design and implementation.
  • Application programming interface (API) management.
  • Product design.
  • Test driven development.
  • Devops.
  • Data collection and analysis.
  • Cloud computing.
  • Building and managing relationships.
  • Product management.
  • Value propositions.
  • Continuous improvement management.
  • Complex Problem Solving.
  • Verbal & written communication skills.
  • Analytical and problem solving skills.
  • Collaboration & team skills; with a focus on cross-group collaboration.
  • Able to manage ambiguity.
  • Data driven decision making.
  • Typically 9+ years of relevant experience and post-secondary degree in related field of study or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Seasoned expert with extensive industry knowledge.
  • Technical leader viewed as a thought leader for innovation.

Salaire :

$121,600.00 - $211,800.00

Type de rémunération :

Salaire

Ce qui précède représente la fourchette et le type de rémunération de BMO Groupe financier.

Les salaires varieront en fonction de facteurs comme l’emplacement, les compétences, l’expérience, les études et les qualifications pour le poste et pourront inclure une structure de commissions. Les salaires pour les postes à temps partiel seront calculés au prorata du nombre d’heures travaillées régulièrement. Pour les rôles à commission, le salaire susmentionné représente la cible de BMO Groupe financier pour la première année au poste.

La rémunération totale offerte par BMO variera selon le type de rémunération associé au poste et peut comprendre des primes de rendement, des primes discrétionnaires ainsi que d’autres avantages et récompenses. BMO offre également une assurance santé, le remboursement des frais de scolarité, une assurance accident et une assurance vie, ainsi que des régimes d’épargne-retraite. Pour en savoir plus sur nos avantages sociaux, consultez le site : https://jobs.bmo.com/ca/fr/R%C3%A9mun%C3%A9ration-globale

À propos de nous

À BMO, nous sommes animés par une raison d’être commune : Avoir le cran de faire une différence dans la vie, comme en affaires. Cette raison d’être nous invite à entraîner des changements positifs et durables pour nos clients, nos collectivités et nos gens. En travaillant ensemble, en innovant et en repoussant les limites, nous transformons des vies et des entreprises et favorisons la croissance économique partout dans le monde.

En tant que membre de l'équipe de BMO, vous êtes valorisé, respecté et entendu, et vous avez plus de moyens pour progresser et obtenir des résultats. Nous nous efforçons de vous aider à obtenir des résultats dès le premier jour, pour vous-même et nos clients. Nous vous offrirons les outils et les ressources dont vous avez besoin pour franchir de nouvelles étapes, car vous aidez nos clients à franchir les leurs. Au moyen de formation et de coaching approfondis ainsi que de soutien de la direction et d'occasions de réseautage, nous vous aiderons à acquérir une expérience enrichissante et à élargir votre groupe de compétences.

Pour en savoir plus, visitez-nous à l'adresse https://jobs.bmo.com/ca/fr.

BMO s'engage à offrir un milieu de travail inclusif, équitable et accessible. Nous apprenons de nos différences et tirons notre force des gens et de leurs différents points de vue. Des mesures d’adaptation sont disponibles sur demande pour les candidats qui participent à tous les aspects du processus de sélection. Pour demander des mesures d’adaptation, veuillez communiquer avec votre recruteur.

Remarque aux recruteurs : BMO n’accepte pas les curriculum vitæ non sollicités provenant de toute source autre que le candidat directement. Tout curriculum vitæ non sollicité envoyé à BMO, directement ou indirectement, sera considéré comme la propriété de BMO. BMO ne paiera aucuns frais pour les placements découlant de la réception d’un curriculum vitæ non sollicité. Une agence de recrutement doit d’abord détenir une entente de service écrite valide et dûment signée avant d’envoyer des curriculum vitæ.

Pour toute question concernant cet employeur et le processus de demande d’emploi, veuillez contacter :


Diversity and Recruitment Team

E mail: diversity.recruitment@bmo.com


About Bank of Montreal (BMO)

We’re proud to be the official bank of the Canadian Defence Community – and that goes beyond supporting your financial well-being. We value the skills you’ve earned in the military, and we’re here to help as you move into the next stage of your professional life.

BMO is a top ten North American bank that provides personal and commercial banking, global markets and investment banking services to 13 million customers and clients. Founded in 1817, we’re driven by our Purpose: Boldly Grow the Good in business and life. BMO has established itself as a destination for top talent, with an employee experience that’s built on   personalized career development opportunities, a performance-driven winning culture, competitive rewards and benefits, and a deepcommitment to the health and well-being of our people.

If you’re ambitious, curious, creative, and eager to make an impact, you should consider BMO as a place to build your career.

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