Application Development Manager at Flexstaf I.T. Inc.

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Job Title: Manager, Application Development

Position Overview

The Manager, Application Development will lead application development teams responsible for enterprise platforms, integrations, and digital solutions, balancing hands-on technical leadership with people and delivery management. This role acts as a technical and escalation point for solution design, architecture decisions, and complex delivery challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Collaboration: Partner closely with technology analysts, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data & analytics, and technology/business leaders to translate business priorities into scalable technical solutions.
• Platform Oversight: Provide delivery and technical oversight for major platforms including Salesforce, Workday Finance, and enterprise integration services.
• Modern Practices: Drive modern development practices including cloud-native design, event-driven architectures, DevSecOps, and continuous delivery. Champion the responsible adoption of modern tools to improve developer productivity, code quality, and delivery predictability.
• Team Leadership: Build, coach, and develop high-performing technical teams, growing senior technical capability across administrators, developers, and technical leads.
• Roadmap & Strategy: Contribute to the application and integration technology roadmap, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Operational Excellence: Ensure production stability, operational excellence, and effective incident and release management across supported applications.

Candidate Requirements

Experience & Technical Skills

• IT Architecture: Minimum 7 years of progressive IT solution architecture experience in application development and system design.
• Digital Platforms: Minimum 7 years of experience delivering complex digital solutions and platforms (Salesforce and Workday) and integration environments.
• Leadership Transition: Demonstrated experience transitioning from a technical lead/architecture role into people leadership with strong coaching and mentorship capability.
• Salesforce: 5+ years in delivering custom Salesforce implementations and enhancements (Sales, Service, Marketing, and Community Cloud).
• Enterprise Integration: 5+ years’ experience with JEE and enterprise integration technologies (Java, JDBC, JMS, XML, SOAP, XSD, WSDL, SSL).
• Event Streaming: 5+ years’ experience with event streaming, such as Confluent Kafka, Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, and Kafka Streams.
• Financial Systems: 5+ years’ experience with Workday Financial Management, including integrations, reporting, data flows, and platform extensions.
• Agile & DevOps: 5+ years leading agile delivery teams, including architecture and development, system integration, testing, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices across cloud and SaaS platforms.
• Agile Frameworks: 10 years of experience working in an agile scrum environment, collaborating with product owners and cross-functional business stakeholders.
• Team Development: Proven interest and experience in developing teams to safely and effectively use digital analytics tools while maintaining security and enterprise standards.

Core Competencies

• Ability to nurture strong business and technical relationships in a fast-paced environment utilizing an agile methodology.
• A forward-looking manager who will help build the technology roadmap for the company.
• Strong listening, negotiation, facilitation, presentation, written, and oral communication skills.

Professional Capabilities

• Strong business and accounting acumen.
• A quick learner with strong problem-solving skills, analytical depth, and strategic thinking.
• Attention to detail, professional judgment, and critical thinking to evaluate complex financial data.
• Ability to balance multiple assignments—both immediate and strategic—at the same time.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team.
• Proven ability to embrace change, adapt to new technology, and maintain a curiosity-driven approach to continuous learning.

Core Soft Skills

Compensation & Benefits

• Bonus Incentive: Eligible for up to a 10% annual bonus incentive.
• Paid Time Off (PTO): * Vacation: 15 days accrual per year
• Personal/Float Days: 4 days accrual per year
• Paid sick days

Other Benefits:

• Health and Dental Plan
• Healthcare Spending Account
• Defined Contribution Pension Plan (100% employee match)
• Education reimbursement
• Parental/Maternity leave top-up program

Job Info:

• Company: Flexstaf I.T. Inc.
• Position: Application Development Manager
• Work Location: Toronto
• Country: CA

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