Attendance

Hybrid

Job number

36378

Category

Senior Professional

Status: Permanent

State

Quebec

Type of Contract

Permanent

Country

Canada

Schedule: Full-Time

Full Time / Part Time?

Full-Time

Posting date

29-Oct-2026

Area(s) of interest: Information technology

Location(s): Montreal, Toronto

A career as a Lead Python Chief Principal Developer in the Treasury IT team at National Bank means acting as a hands-on technical leader for modern technology platforms.

This job allows you to have a positive impact on our organization through your software engineering expertise, architectural judgment, and experience delivering reliable solutions in regulated environments.

Your role

- Co-lead the technical direction, architecture, and evolution of Treasury technology platforms and related solutions.
- Analyze business needs and design, build, test, deploy, and support applications, integrations, services, and data-processing capabilities.
- Plan, refine, prioritize, and assign engineering work with developers, business analysts, users, and line-of-business partners.
- Define solution architecture, technical decisions, acceptance criteria, validation controls, monitoring, operational procedures, and production-support practices.
- Strengthen code review, continuous integration and continuous delivery, automated testing, security, documentation, and release-management controls.
- Mentor engineers and establish practical standards that support shared ownership, early collaboration, continuous improvement, and dependable production outcomes.

Your team

Treasury IT is modernizing its technology platforms to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable capabilities that support Treasury and Financial Markets initiatives. You will work closely with technical leadership, developers, business analysts, users, and line-of-business partners in an agile, proactive, and collaborative environment. The team is focused on improving engineering practices while delivering secure, maintainable, scalable, and well-documented solutions.

We aim to offer you maximum flexibility to promote your quality of life. This includes a hybrid work environment and a flexible, adaptable schedule.

The Bank values continuous development and internal mobility.



Our personalized training programs, based on learning through action, allow you to master your role and develop new areas of expertise. Tools such as the Data Academy, language training, the Harvard Learning Center, and coaching and mentoring support are available to you at all times.

Requirements

- Significant hands-on experience as a senior software engineer, lead software engineer, technical lead, or in an equivalent engineering leadership role, including taking new solutions into production.
- Advanced software development experience in Python or another modern programming language, with the ability to build maintainable and well-tested services, applications, integrations, or processing solutions.
- Advanced knowledge of software architecture, cloud-native design, application programming interfaces, integration patterns, scalability, resiliency, observability, and security.
- Practical experience with structured query language, transformation logic, automated testing, infrastructure as code, source control, code review, deployment automation, and continuous integration and continuous delivery.
- Experience designing and operating cloud-based platforms, application programming interfaces, integration services, distributed systems, data pipelines, or large-scale processing solutions.
- Experience in Treasury, Financial Markets, risk, regulatory, or another highly governed environment, including security controls, auditability, and production-operating practices.

Languages:

English, French

Reason to require this language: you will need to discuss frequently with our service providers or partners who speak a language other than French.

Skills

Amazon Web Services Application Security Financial Markets Leadership Python System Deployment Teamwork Cloud-Native Architecture Containerization Decision Making Event Driven Architecture Initiative Solution Design DevSecOps GitLab CI/CD





Your benefits

In addition to competitive compensation, upon hiring you’ll be eligible for a wide range of versatile benefits to help promote your wellbeing and that of your family such as:

- Health and wellness program, including many options

- Flexible group insurance

- Generous pension plan

- Employee Share Ownership Plan

- Employee and family assistance program

- Preferential banking services

- Involvement in community initiatives

- Telemedicine service

- Virtual sleep clinic

We have an offer that keeps up with trends as well as your needs and those of your family.

Our dynamic work environments and cutting-edge collaboration tools foster a positive employee experience. We value employees’ ideas. Whether through our surveys or programs, regular feedback and ongoing communication are encouraged.

Making a bold move in a people-first environment

We’re a bank on a human scale that stands out for its courage, entrepreneurial culture, and passion for people. Our mission is to have a positive impact on people’s lives. Our core values of partnership, agility, and empowerment inspire us, and inclusion is central to our commitments. We aim, wherever possible, to provide a barrier-free and accessible environment to all employees.

We strive to provide accessibility measures throughout the recruitment process within the limits of our available resources. If you require accommodations, feel free to let us know during our initial conversations. We welcome all candidates! What can you bring to our team?

Join us!

Why work at National Bank?

For an environment that supports your career path

There are many varied opportunities for you to progress and develop, and move ahead in your career. This includes on-the-job learning and training, co-development and pairing with other employees, professional support and mentoring, internal career days or discussion forums with our leaders.

For an inclusive and diverse environment

We foster inclusion in an environment where each person’s unique qualities, whether visible or invisible, are celebrated and valued. We welcome all candidates! What can you bring to our team?

Discover our culture

Duration: 1 min 25 sec

📌 LEAD PYTHON DEVELOPER – IT TREASURY PLATFORMS (Montreal)
🏢 National Bank of Canada
📍 Montreal