About the role

We're looking for a Software Development Manager to join our growing team!

What you'll do here:

• Develop productive and committed teams, fostering the development of personal and technical skills, as well as collaboration.
• Manage projects by understanding the business partner's strategies, priorities and challenges.
• Assess capabilities to propose appropriate solutions and deliver expected value.
• Manage stakeholders and maintain good relations with internal and external collaborators.
• Divide the project into manageable tasks and establish a functional organization chart with roles and responsibilities.
• Develop and maintain the strategic requirements plan, identifying deliverables and dependencies, estimating duration and associated costs, and participating in assigning resources to activities.
• Build, direct and coordinate, in direct and/or indirect supervisory mode, the activities of multidisciplinary teams including project managers (PM), coordinators, scrum masters and project controllers.
• Prepare reports on the project as a whole (progress, problems, costs, closure, etc.) while respecting established performance indicators.
• Lead project risk management. Effectively manage project delivery.
• Maintain dashboards periodically and progressively throughout the program/project.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of industry trends and technological innovations, identifying opportunities and suggesting solutions where appropriate.
• Collaborate with other Software Engineering Directors and Project Managers to ensure that all initiatives are appropriately staffed, balancing business needs with individual experience and career aspirations.
• Anticipate problems and difficult situations and take the necessary steps to resolve them.
• Manage the relationships and expectations of stakeholders and senior management.
• Maintain a strong business orientation with an understanding of the current and strategic direction of Intact's technologies.
• In the spirit of continuous improvement, evolve our agile practices based on lessons learned throughout the entire development cycle.
• Master all facets of software development.
• Stay abreast of new technologies and challenge the status quo.

What you bring to the table:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology/Software Engineering or any equivalent combination of training and experience.
• Experience in leading IT development initiatives.
• Solid understanding and experience of technologies: Java, Angular, Application Frameworks.
• Solid understanding and experience of technologies: Cloud, AWS, ElasticSearch, MongoDB.
• Experience in continuous delivery management.
• Experience with object-oriented development and software debugging.
• Experience of change and transformation management.
• Experience in team management.
• Experience in project management skills including planning, budget and schedule management, scope management, risk management, timely decision making and building effective teams.
• Knowledge of commercial insurance.
• Leadership skills.
• Bilinguism (French and English) - For candidates located in Quebec, bilingualism is required considering the necessity to interact on a regular basis with English speaking colleagues across the country.
• No Canadian work experience required however must be eligible to work in Canada.