Manager, Application Development

Manager, Application Development – MAD051326

Department: Information Systems

Type of Position: Full Time, Permanent

Location: 7th Floor, 5160 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON

Reporting to: Director, Application Development

Work Model: Hybrid – flexible work schedule (All remote work must be completed from your home office within the province of Ontario.)

Grade: N

Posting Status: Open

Salary Range: The salary range for this position is $99,150 - $148,690 per year

About Tarion

Since 1976, Tarion has served new home buyers and new homeowners by ensuring that one of their life's biggest investments is protected. Almost every new home in the province is covered by a new home warranty. This warranty protection is provided by Ontario's builders and lasts up to seven years. It is backstopped by Tarion. More than 375,000 homes are currently enrolled in the warranty program. Every year about 55,000 new homes are enrolled.

How We Make a Difference

A home is one of life's biggest purchases. As an independent, not-for-profit organization, Tarion provides Ontario's new home buyers and owners with peace of mind that their purchase is safeguarded through the province's new home warranty and protection program.

Almost every new home in the province is covered by a new home warranty. Tarion ensures consumer protection by providing free tools, guides and resources to help homeowners understand their builder's warranty and navigate warranty claims with confidence.
If a builder does not meet their warranty commitments, Tarion offers guidance to help homeowners ensure they receive the coverage they're entitled to, and when necessary, steps in to help resolve warranty claims.

About the Role

Tarion's IS team has a clear purpose: understand the business and build the tools that let them administer a best-in-class warranty program. Each employee is invited to participate fully in this goal, and we don't operate with silos or hierarchy to block collaboration. Though we work at a fast pace and have an ever-evolving list of projects to keep us busy, we don't forget to have fun doing it. Our team has personality, and have been known to hold virtual escape rooms, gift card giveaways, and when we're in the office, we have the company's best snack table.

The Manager, Application Development mentors and leads a team of IT professionals to ensure the successful delivery of solutions to meet or exceed stakeholder business requirements. Through efficient approaches, development, support and deployment of all applications this individual will ensure the reliability and sustainability of those applications in alignment with the strategic direction of the Information Technology Department. This role will lead and manage the staff of the Application Support & Development section, which will include coaching, development and mentoring, recruitment and performance management. The role will focus on managing and maintaining a strong relationship to all.

This position follows a hybrid working policy, requiring two (2) days per week in our office and three (3) days working remotely. In order to assist with onboarding and workplace introductions, new hires will be required to work four (4) days in office per week during their first three (3) months of service. (All remote work must be completed from your home office within the province of Ontario.)

What you will be doing:

• Lead application development teams responsible for enterprise platforms, integrations, and digital solutions, balancing hands-on technical leadership with people and delivery management.
• Act as a technical and escalation point for solution design, architecture decisions, and complex delivery challenges.
• Partner closely with technology analysts, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data & analytics, and technology/business leaders to translate business priorities into scalable technical solutions.
• Provide delivery and technical oversight for major platforms including Salesforce, Workday Finance, and enterprise integration services.
• Drive modern development practices including cloud native design, event driven architectures, DevSecOps, and continuous delivery.
• Champion the responsible adoption of modern development practices and tools to improve developer productivity, code quality, and delivery predictability.
• Build, coach, and develop high performing technical teams, growing senior technical capability across administrators, developers and technical leads.
• Contribute to the application and integration technology roadmap, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Ensure production stability, operational excellence, and effective incident and release management across supported applications.

What you will need to succeed:

The Ideal candidate for this position will have:

• Minimum 7 years progressive IT solution architecture experience application development, and system design.
• Minimum 7 years of experience delivering complex digital solutions and platforms (Salesforce and Workday) and integration environments.
• Demonstrated experience transitioning from a technical lead/architecture role into people leadership with strong coaching and mentorship capability.
• 5+ years in delivering custom Salesforce implementation and enhancements (Sales, Service, Marketing & Community Cloud)
• 5+ years' experience with JEE and enterprise integration technologies (Java, JDBC, JMS, XML, SOAP, XSD, WSDL, SSL)
• 5+ years' experience with event streaming, such as Confluent Kafka, Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams.
• 5+ years' experience with Workday Financial Management, including integrations, reporting, data flows and platform extensions.
• 5+ years' leading agile delivery teams, including architecture and development, system integration, testing, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices across cloud and SaaS platforms.
• Proven interest and experience to develop teams to safely and effectively use of digital analytics tools, while maintaining security and enterprise standards.
• 10 years experience working in agile scrum environment, collaborating with product owners and cross functional business stakeholders.
• Ability to nurture strong business and technical relationships in a fast-paced environment utilizing an agile methodology.
• A forward-looking manager that will help with technology road map for the company. Strong listening, negotiation and facilitation skills.
• Excellent presentation, written and oral communication skills

Why Choose Tarion?

We believe that Tarion's employees are its most valuable asset. We strive to provide a welcoming work environment.

We offer employees a competitive compensation program, opportunities for learning and development, an employee discount program, access to wellness programs, and a variety of Employee Assistance Program tools and online resources to support well-being.

At Tarion, we believe that a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion allows employees to perform at their very best and underpins a culture in which everyone feels they have an equal opportunity to belong and build a career. Tarion is committed to developing and maintaining work environments and practices that ensure equality of opportunity in recruitment, selection and promotion, and to removing systemic barriers so that employees have every opportunity to feel included in the workplace.

If you are a person with a disability and have questions or would like help with your application, please contact a member of the Human Resources Department.

Application Submissions & Deadline:

Please submit a single file with a covering letter and resume with vacancy code MAD051326.