Position Title Supervisor, Digital Development - ADI (Digital Strategy And Product) (English Services)

Status Of Employment Contractee Long-Term (Fixed Term)

Position Language Requirement Language Skills: Work at CBC/Radio-Canada At CBC/Radio-Canada, we create content that informs, entertains and connects Canadians on multiple platforms. Our successes and accomplishments are driven by embodying and upholding values, which include creativity, integrity, inclusiveness and relevance.

Do you think you have the ability and drive to keep up with this exciting, ever-changing industry? Whether it be in front of the camera, on air, online or behind the scenes, you would be joining a team that thrives on making connections and telling stories that are important to Canadians.

Unposting Date 2026-01-06 11:59 PM

Supervisor, Digital Development - ADI Job Description (18 month contract) Working At CBC At the CBC, we all have a story to tell. What’s yours?

If you share our passion for storytelling, Canada and having a positive impact on your community, CBC’s Digital Strategy and Product team is where you want to be!

CBC serves one of the country’s largest digital audiences and one of the few that is built and owned in Canada, by Canadians. Our product suite includes cbc.ca, CBC News app, CBC Gem and CBC Listen.

Our product vision is to make it effortless for all people and communities in Canada to tell and discover the stories that connect us. Whether delivering the latest breaking news, international hit series like North of North, deep dives into the issues of your town or neighbourhood, award winning podcasts like Someone Knows Something, or nation building events like the Olympics, our products ensure that these stories reach Canadians on their phones, TVs, desktops or smart speakers whenever they need or want us.

You have the opportunity to play a part in informing, enlightening and entertaining Canadians through innovative storytelling formats and content discovery. We are an empowered outcome-driven innovative hub for CBC, critical to the future growth of Canada’s public media company and the wider content ecosystem. We believe that we are most impactful when our teams reflect the breadth of experience of the audiences we serve and we are committed to an inclusive and equitable workplace to realize that belief. When you join our mission, you are not only contributing to the growth of the CBC, but the future of our country.

Why is this role important? As a public organization, we are committed to protecting and handling our audience’s personal information in the most transparent and ethical way possible. To help us achieve this, we are looking for a Development Team Supervisor to work with the ADI (Accounts Data Integration) team.

If you're passionate about Canada and you love technology, learning and bringing out the best in others, you’ll love working at CBC.

CBC/Radio-Canada is the largest broadcaster in Canada and this team is at the heart of the CBC account data experience. The ADI team’s mission is to build and provide secure, reliable and vendor-agnostic ways (APIs) to access, store and manage CBC account data, proactively connecting teams with the necessary data storage solutions to drive cross-platform feature opportunities and enable seamless and customized user journeys across our products

CBC has a vision where authenticated users can have a single, coherent account spanning across our products where they can tailor a relevant and customized experience that is carried across the ecosystem..

Here’s Why We Should Work Together Our digital teams’ values - collaboration, inclusion, learning, and continuous improvement - embody who we are as a people-focused, digital-forward employer. We follow Agile principles and the empowered product operating model. Our dedicated managers work closely with every individual to ensure we are leveraging their strengths, championing their ideas and supporting their pursuit of new skills and their desired career progression.

Here at CBC Digital Strategy & Products, your well being is critical to our success. It is essential that work be a safe space where our employees are able to share their authentic selves with one another and to push each other to challenge conventions.

Perks You Can Look Forward To

• Work with purpose and impact at scale
• Flexible work schedules, allowing you to find balance for yourself, your family and your work;
• A hybrid environment you can enjoy the benefits of work from home and in-office collaboration
• Competitive total rewards package including robust health benefits and best-in-class defined benefits pension plan;
• Dedicated time for innovation, learning and development; wherever your interests lie;
• Opportunities to work with emerging technology;
• Opportunities for continued learning and professional development;
• Opportunities to become a member of our Employee Resource Groups;
• Pair programming and mentorship opportunities, where you can learn from the best in the industry and help coach new talent;
• A creative and dynamic work environment, where your ideas and contributions can be heard, valued and respected;
• A supportive management team committed to upholding the highest standards of diversity and inclusivity;
• An environment which favors experimentation and an iterative approach in order to achieve the highest form of technical innovation.

How You Will Make An Impact You are an experienced technical leader who will primarily work on designing, building, improving, and maintaining the existing API for CBC account data from various streams and products. Ongoing maintenance of the Zendesk CRM Sidebar app will also be required. You are looking to apply and build upon your skills in:

• Collaborating with the Product Owner and Architect to assess feasibility of proposed changes/features and helping to break down, clarify, prioritize and estimate work to deliver value in each sprint/product increment
• Open communication and dialogue with team members on an ongoing basis, being supportive and receptive to feedback and questions; partnering with the Senior Engineering Manager to recognize and address teams’ training opportunities and performance challenges together.
• Understanding the importance of accessibility and knowing what it takes to meet the needs and inclusivity of all users.
• Having an opportunity to join a company with a mission, value set, and tech-forward approach that aligns with your own; a place where knowledge-sharing guides your learning.
• Wanting to be part of a fun team, engaged in a continuous learning culture, where you can take on new challenges and be a significant contributor to engaging our pan Canadian audience.

What You Bring To Our Team

• Two or more years of experience in a leadership role managing and leading a team of developers, keeping them accountable for delivering results.
• Three or more years of experience in a senior development role. Demonstrated ability to provide technical and team leadership for other developers.
• The communication skills. You know how to listen and relay empathy and understanding for diverse perspectives.
• Proven experience with mentoring and coaching developers, drawing from their strengths and helping them with areas of improvements through timely feedback.
• Experienced in coding standards, quality engineering management, source code management, CI/CD pipeline (e.g. Jenkins), release management.
• The education: A Computer Science, Engineering degree or equivalent is preferred, but we know not everyone gains their programming skills this way. You have the knowledge and understanding of software development and testing best practices. You are passionate about learning new technologies and exploring innovative solutions.
• The tools: Demonstrated experience working with either Vue.js (Must), Node.js (Must), JavaScript (Must), TypeScript (Must), Java (Desired), Go (Desired) and Python.
• You are comfortable working across the full SDLC, including using test automation frameworks such as Cypress, Playwright and Jest; and on deployments. You are comfortable working in a cloud and containerized environment using GCP, Azure, OpenShift, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Proven experience with the frameworks and vendor integrations/products that the ADI team currently works on, e.g. Vue.js, Node.js, Zendesk Sidebar apps, LoginRadius User Authentication
• The experience: You have previously worked to integrate data pipelines and APIs.
• The collaborative Agile experience. You enjoy collaboration, pair-programming, and knowledge sharing. You do your best work in a team-focused environment. You believe in the Agile methodology, and you are flexible and open to change. You are comfortable with iterative and incremental development.

Nice To Have

• Understanding of quality engineering practices
• Understanding of audience impact for a media and broadcasting company and developing best in class UX experiences
• Knowledge of media domain (e.g. ingestion workflows and streaming protocols) is a plus
• Have ability to lead and connect with people inside and outside of the team (e.g. other product teams, stakeholders as necessary)

Candidates may be subject to skills and knowledge testing.

We thank all applicants for their interest, but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

As part of our recruitment process, candidates who advance to the next

step will be asked to complete a background check. This includes:

• A mandatory Criminal record check.
• Other background checks may be conducted based on the operational requirements of the position.

CBC/Radio-Canada is committed to being a leader in reflecting our country’s diversity. That’s because we can only create and tell the stories that connect Canadians, by having a workforce that mirrors the ever-changing makeup of our country. That’s why we, as an employer, value equal opportunity and nurture an inclusive workplace where our individual differences are not only recognized and valued, but also extend to and pervade all the services we provide as Canada’s public broadcaster. For more information, visit the Diversity and Inclusion section of our website. If you have accommodation needs at this stage of the recruitment process, please inform us as soon as possible by sending an e-mail to recruitment@cbc.ca.

You are invited to consult and familiarize yourself with our Code of Conduct, which can be found on our corporate website. All employees must adhere to the Code as a condition of employment. We also invite you to take a look at our policy on conflicts of interest. In the event that you become an employee, it will be important to inform us, as quickly as possible, of any situation that, because of your hiring, constitutes or could appear to constitute a conflict of interest.

Primary Location: Broadcast Centre 205 Wellington St. W., Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3G7

Number Of Openings 1

Work Schedule Full time