Job Description

The Manager, Development is accountable for development team activities within the development, enhancement, maintenance, and modernization process when delivering client-facing web solutions and secure integration points.

Eligibility

- Current work authorization for Canada required for all openings.
- This is a full-time regular role.
- Flexible hybrid schedule as part of Fidelity’s dynamic working arrangement.

Location

The work location for this role is 483 Bay Street in Toronto until approximately late 2026, when the work location will change to the new Mississauga office at 3 Robert Speck Parkway.

Responsibilities

- Manage the back-end development team and delivery of products and services for a range of external clients and internal business lines, ensuring alignment with business objectives, operational priorities, and client commitments.
- Prioritize activities, manage team capacity, and allocate resources consistent with business strategy, platform roadmaps, operational priorities, production support needs, and client commitments.
- Coordinate activities with technology, architecture, product, business, operations, information security, and vendor teams.
- Provide oversight during code releases, deployments, application upgrades, Level 3 production support activities, incident response, root-cause analysis, and defect remediation for core business processes.
- Manage and support complex enterprise job scheduling processes using Control‑M, including batch orchestration, dependency management, monitoring, incident response, and recovery for business‑critical data processing workflows.




- Coordinate development efforts related to start‑of‑day data loading, scheduled data extraction, report generation, file‑based integrations, reconciliation processing, exception handling, restart/retry procedures, and data quality controls across upstream and downstream systems.
- Ensure strict unit testing practices, integration testing, broader automated testing, security considerations, post‑implementation reviews, and operational readiness activities are completed against defined success criteria.
- Provide ongoing communication on development status, production support priorities, delivery risks, dependencies, and operational readiness to senior management, support work effort estimation, roadmap planning, and determination of deliverable timelines.
- Positively influence architecture, design, coding, testing, AI enablement, and secure integration practices.
- Liaise with internal and external user groups as needed and effectively work in an agile environment.
- Allocate, monitor, and plan the tasks of team members using agile practices, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily coordination, and continuous improvement.
- Lead and support back‑end application development, including Java REST services,



complex SQL and database design, RESTful API integrations, microservices/service‑oriented architecture, event‑driven messaging, and secure integration patterns.
- Support application maintenance, currency updates, technical debt reduction, reliability improvements, and modernization of key business applications.
- Provide mentorship, coaching, feedback, and training to enable team members to meet or exceed expectations, grow their technical capabilities, and support team succession and bench strength.
- Conduct performance assessments of team members, set explicit objectives, address performance gaps, support career development plans, and build a high‑performing, accountable engineering team.

Qualifications
- 5+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with experience moving from hands‑on delivery into technical leadership or engineering management responsibilities.
- 3+ years of direct engineering management experience, with a proven track record of managing performance, hiring, onboarding, coaching, career development, and building successful teams.
- Wealth management, brokerage, payments, banking, or broader fintech experience is considered an asset.
- Experience with, or a strong operational interest in leveraging AI tools to accelerate software development, testing, code review, delivery planning, and engineering productivity processes.
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Familiarity with secure coding principles and experience ensuring security toolin

📌 Manager Development Fcc (Toronto)
🏢 Fidelity Canada
📍 Toronto