Manager or Team Lead
BDO Canada
Manager or Team Lead
BDO Canada
Provide assurance, tax, and consulting services
Putting people first, every day
BDO is a firm built on a foundation of positive relationships with our people and our clients. Each day, our professionals provide exceptional service, helping clients with advice and insight they can trust. In turn, we offer an award-winning environment that fosters a people-first culture with a high priority on your personal and professional growth.
Your Opportunity
At BDO, our purpose is helping people thrive. As a Manager or Team Lead, Migration Engineering, you will join a growing team focused on helping organizations modernize their technology environments and successfully navigate complex migration initiatives. This replacement role is an exciting opportunity to work with enterprise clients as they transform legacy systems, modernize infrastructure, migrate applications and data to cloud platforms, and adopt modern operating models.
This role offers the opportunity to work on large-scale transformation programs across a variety of industries while collaborating with cloud architects, platform engineers, business stakeholders, and project teams. Beyond delivery, you will contribute to the evolution of our migration methodologies, tools, accelerators, and service offerings as we continue to grow our practice.
As a Manager or Team Lead, you will:
Lead and support application, infrastructure, database, and data migration initiatives for enterprise clients.
Assess current-state environments and develop migration strategies, roadmaps, and target-state architectures.
Design and execute migration plans across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
Analyze technical dependencies, risks, and migration impacts while developing mitigation strategies.
Collaborate with client stakeholders to define migration requirements, success criteria, and implementation approaches.
Support cloud adoption initiatives across Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud platforms.
Build and maintain migration automation tools, scripts, and repeatable deployment processes.
Perform migration testing, validation, performance tuning, and post-migration support activities.
Troubleshoot complex technical issues throughout migration projects and recommend effective solutions.
Contribute to project planning, status reporting, issue management, and stakeholder communications.
Support business development activities, including solution design, proposals, and client presentations.
Mentor junior consultants and contribute to the development of migration best practices and standards.
How Do We Define Success for Your Role?
You demonstrate BDO's core values through all aspects of your work: Integrity, Respect, and Collaboration.
You develop trusted advisor relationships with clients through exceptional delivery and technical expertise.
You successfully deliver migration projects on time, within scope, and with minimal business disruption.
You proactively identify risks, dependencies, and opportunities for improvement throughout engagements.
You contribute to the growth and maturity of the migration practice through innovation and knowledge sharing.
You actively mentor team members and foster a collaborative, inclusive work environment.
You continuously develop expertise in cloud technologies, modernization approaches, and emerging migration tools.
You identify opportunities to create additional value for clients through related transformation initiatives.
Your Experience and Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
5+ years of experience delivering technology migration, modernization, infrastructure, or cloud transformation projects.
Experience planning and executing migrations involving applications, servers, databases, storage, or enterprise platforms.
Strong understanding of cloud platforms, including Azure, AWS, and/or Google Cloud.
Experience with migration tools, automation frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code solutions.
Knowledge of networking, security, identity management, and enterprise architecture principles.
Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
Excellent client-facing communication and stakeholder management skills.
Experience working within agile and project delivery environments.
Preferred
Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud certifications.
Experience with Microsoft 365, Azure VMware Solution, Active Directory, Exchange, SAP, Oracle, Dynamics 365, or similar enterprise platforms.
Experience with migration assessment and discovery tools.
Knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, PowerShell, Python, or other automation technologies.
Consulting or professional services experience.
Experience leading workstreams or mentoring junior team members.
The expected range of compensation for this role is $115,000 - $165,000 annually.
Why BDO?
Our people-first approach to talent has earned us a spot among Canada’s Top 100 Employers for 2026. This recognition is a milestone we’re thrilled to add to our collection of awards for both experienced and student talent experiences.
At BDO, our people experience is guided by three core pillars—Do work with genuine care, Do what matters with purpose, and Do what’s next - shaping how we support our people, serve our clients, and grow together.
Our firm is committed to providing an environment where you can be successful in the following ways:
Giving back adds up: Where company meets community. BDO is actively involved in our communities by supporting local charity initiatives. We support staff with local and national events where you will be given the opportunity to contribute to your community.
Total rewards that matter: We pay for performance with competitive total cash compensation that recognizes and rewards your contribution. We provide comprehensive benefits from day one, and a flexible personal time off policy. We’re committed to supporting your overall wellbeing and provide reimbursement for wellness initiatives that fit your lifestyle.
Everyone counts: We are committed to creating a workplace where employees can participate fully, contribute meaningfully and succeed without barriers. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace defined by respect, fairness, and a true sense of belonging for everyone. We recognize and celebrate the unique experiences, identities, and perspectives that each of us bring – and that these experiences strengthen how we work together. Our commitment extends to ensuring that our application process is both inclusive and accessible. If you require accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us.
Flexibility: All BDO personnel are expected to spend some of their time working in the office, at the client site, and virtually unless accommodations or alternative work arrangements are in place.
Our model is a blended approach designed to support the flexible needs of our people, the firm and our clients. It’s about creating work experiences that meet everyone’s needs and providing flexibility to adjust when, where and how we work to meet the expectations of our role.
Code of Conduct: Our Code of Conduct sets clear standards for how we conduct business. It reflects our shared values and commitments and includes guiding principles to help us make ethical decisions and maintain trust with each other, our clients, and the public.
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Provide assurance, tax, and consulting services
BDO Canada provides professional services to clients in Canada and around the world, including assurance (auditing), tax advisory, and consulting. Their teams across 100 offices in Canada and 1,800 offices in 164 countries work with clients from various sectors to address financial and business needs. Services are delivered by professional experts who collaborate with clients to review finances, optimize taxes, improve operations, and manage risk, using industry knowledge and global resources. What sets BDO Canada apart is its large, country-wide network combined with a global footprint, plus a people-focused approach to talent experience that has earned recognition like Canada’s Top 100 Employers. The company aims to help clients meet domestic and international challenges by providing reliable, multi-disciplinary support across assurance, tax, and advisory services.
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