Senior Director, IT Delivery and Technology Platforms

A career as Senior Director, IT Delivery and Technology Platforms at National Bank means acting as a leader of leaders and ensuring the evolution, performance and sustainability of a portfolio of critical technology assets. This role combines technology depth, operational excellence, value delivery, AI-enabled transformation and talent development in a complex and evolving environment.

You will lead 3 to 4 managers accountable for technology assets and influence an organization of approximately 50 to 75 people. The portfolio’s exact scope will be established based on sector priorities and the selected candidate’s expertise. It may include the mainframe platform and its related ecosystems.

Your job

• Lead, engage and develop a team of 3 to 4 technology asset managers by supporting their decisions, development, team leadership and achievement of sustainable results.
• Ensure the overall health and sustainability of a portfolio of critical assets by balancing stability, resilience, security, obsolescence, capacity, performance, costs, service continuity and modernization.
• Establish a technology vision and roadmap that balance business needs, value delivery, modernization, risk reduction and operational sustainability.
• Be accountable for portfolio performance, including quality, predictability, dependency management, investment prioritization and achievement of expected outcomes.
• Provide credible technology leadership to architects, specialists, delivery teams and business partners, challenge directions and promote simple, sustainable and pragmatic decisions.
• Guide the evolution of legacy platforms, potentially including the mainframe, and ensure their coherent integration with modern architectures, APIs, data, cloud, automation and artificial intelligence.
• Accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence in delivery and engineering practices, mobilize managers and their teams around concrete use cases, and foster the large-scale deployment of new ways of working.
• Develop managers and succession talent, strengthen technology leadership depth and build an organization capable of taking on future transformations and responsibilities, in partnership with business sectors, architecture, cybersecurity, operations, suppliers and other technology teams.

Your team

IT and Operations brings together more than 5,500 experts who work in an agile, proactive and collaborative way to seize opportunities, stay at the forefront of technology and continuously improve processes.

You will report to a Senior Director, IT Delivery, whose overall scope covers the banking domain, the financing domain and the mainframe platform. You will work in a diverse technology environment alongside managers and teams responsible for these three areas. Your portfolio may fall within one or more of these domains, depending on sector priorities and your expertise.

We aim to offer maximum flexibility to support your quality of life, including a hybrid work environment and a flexible, adaptable schedule.

Prerequisites

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or a related field and at least 10 years of relevant experience, or a related master’s degree and at least 8 years of relevant experience.
• Significant experience managing managers and leading large technology teams.
• A career path grounded in sufficiently deep hands-on technology experience to understand, challenge and guide complex technology decisions, such as software development, architecture, solution design, platform engineering or technology operations.
• Demonstrated experience managing critical technology assets or platforms, including lifecycle, stability, modernization and risk.
• Knowledge of mainframe environments and their modernization, resilience and integration considerations is an asset.
• Hands-on experience using artificial intelligence in a technology delivery or engineering context, combined with a demonstrated ability to influence and accelerate its adoption across teams.
• Experience delivering complex programs or initiatives involving multiple teams, partners and dependencies.
• Ability to translate complex technology issues into clear decisions, priorities and messages for executive and business audiences.
• Engaging leadership, managerial courage, sound judgment, organizational awareness and the ability to operate effectively in ambiguity.
• Experience in financial services or another highly regulated environment is an asset.