About the Role
Broadridge is seeking an accomplished Engineering Leader to guide and inspire our Canadian broker dealer client communications tax and statement processing software engineering team. This role involves driving strategic initiatives to design, build, and deliver high-quality, scalable, and secure software solutions, requiring a blend of leadership, strategic planning, and technical expertise in mainframe and modern software architecture.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical and strategic leadership to software engineering teams.
- Define and execute the engineering roadmap aligned with business and product priorities.
- Foster a collaborative, innovative, and high-performance engineering culture.
- Oversee the development and maintenance of existing in-house applications, and/or integrate third-party applications.
- Monitor application performance, support service restoration during incidents, identify improvement opportunities, and implement necessary enhancements.
- Support operations teams during critical periods, including tax processing season and monthly client statement generation.
- Ensure customer-centric service delivery.
- Lead, inspire, and manage a team of software engineers, setting clear objectives and fostering a culture of innovation and high performance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product management, client services, operations and global stakeholders to align technology goals with business objectives.
- Mentor and develop engineering leaders to facilitate career growth and succession planning.
- Identify and address resource gaps, make strategic hiring decisions and leverage external partners as needed.
- Drive the adoption of an engineering strategy and technology roadmap that aligns with the company's strategic objectives.
- Oversee and guide the integration of legacy mainframe applications with cloud platforms products in compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Ensure engineering best practices, code quality, performance, and maintainability.
- Ensure the delivery of high-quality software products by establishing and maintaining rigorous testing, performance monitoring, and quality assurance processes.
- Drive projects from ideation and architecture designs through full production deployment.
- Stay ahead of industry trends and regulatory changes; proactively identify opportunities for adoption of best of breed tax processes within Broadridge.
- Promote automation, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and agile methodologies.
- Continuously improve engineering processes, tools, and team capabilities.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to improve engineering processes and tools; optimize team efficiency, product quality, and delivery timelines.
- Stay up to date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices to ensure the engineering team remains at the cutting edge.
- Partner with product, client, security, and infrastructure teams to deliver robust, compliant solutions.
- Stay abreast of regulatory and industry changes from CRA, MRQ, IRS, and CIRO.
- Communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs effectively to executives and stakeholders.
- Serve as a technical and strategic advisor to senior leadership.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading large-scale mainframe applications development initiative including integration with modern cloud platforms in highly regulated financial industries.
- Strong background in mainframe application 3GL language software development frameworks.
- Deep understanding of security, compliance, and risk management in financial systems.
- Successful track record of delivering end-to-end projects from inception through production.
- Demonstrated ability to implement processes and tools to drive software delivery quality improvements and enhance client satisfaction.
- Experience managing multiple teams in a fast-paced and geographically diverse environment.
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Extensive managerial experience overseeing teams with direct reports.
- Experience transforming teams from waterfall and other SDLC frameworks to Agile.
- Passion for technology and business and continuous learning.
- Extensive development management experience in the Wealth Management application space is an asset.
- Experience with US or Canadian tax processing is preferred.
- Honesty and transparency are critical to our hiring process. Any attempt to falsify, misrepresent, or disguise information in an application, resume, assessment, or interview will result in disqualification from consideration.
Skills
- Mainframe and modern software architecture and design
- Mainframe application 3GL language software development frameworks
- Security, compliance, and risk management in financial systems
- Agile methodologies
- DevOps/SRE
- Test automation frameworks
- PLI
- Cobol
- IMS
- DB2
- CICS
- API
- Java
- Python
Location
- Canada
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- At least 5 years in leadership roles
Education Level
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
Salary/Compensations
- CAD $150,000- $180,000
Benefits
- Investment in technology or other resources to enable effective work from home.
- Educational opportunities, including formal classes, training programs and events.
- Access to 8,500+ online courses covering business, leadership, technical, and function-specific topics through LinkedIn Learning.
About the Company
- At Broadridge, we've built a culture where the highest goal is to empower others to accomplish more.
- Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR) is a global technology leader with trusted expertise and transformative technology, helping clients and the financial services industry operate, innovate, and grow.
- We power investing, governance, and communications for our clients – driving operational resiliency, elevating business performance, and transforming investor experiences.
- Our technology and operations platforms process and generate over 7 billion communications annually and underpin the daily average trading of over $15 trillion in equities, fixed income, and other securities globally.
- A certified Great Place to Work®, Broadridge is part of the S&P 500® Index, employing over 15,000 associates in 21 countries.
- We are dedicated to fostering a collaborative, engaging, and inclusive environment and are committed to providing a workplace that empowers associates to be authentic and bring their best to work.
- We believe that associates do their best when they feel safe, understood, and valued, and we work diligently and collaboratively to ensure Broadridge is a company—and ultimately a community—that recognizes and celebrates everyone’s unique perspective.
- We are committed to creating an engaging workplace for the most talented associates in our industry.
- We are dedicated to fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and healthy environment that promotes flexibility and accountability.
- As a leading provider of technology, communications, and data and analytics solutions to businesses around the world, it is critical that we understand, embrace, and operate in a multicultural environment.
- Every associate has unique strengths, which, when fully appreciated and embraced, allow individuals to perform at their best, leading to our success.
- We believe that our associates are our most important asset.
- Encouraging professional development opportunities is a core part of our culture.
- To enable learning in our hybrid working model, Broadridge has redesigned all development programs for 100% virtual delivery.
Equal Opportunity
- Broadridge is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace ensuring that equal employment opportunities are provided to all individuals, regardless of race, colour, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, creed, age, disability, religious affiliation, or national origin or citizenship.
- If you require any accommodation during the recruitment process, please notify our recruitment team.
