Manager, Application Development

Info-Tech is the world’s fastest-growing IT research and advisory companies, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals. We produce unbiased and highly relevant IT research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. Our mission is to help IT leaders and their teams successfully implement critical technology projects and systematically improve their core processes and governance. Come join us as we are open to hire exceptional candidates across Canada and the US!   

You will work in a highly collaborative team that functions efficiently even in a remote work setting. You will have flexibility to work from home, at the office (located in London/Toronto Ontario), or in a hybrid mode. 

We offer great competitive salaries, benefits and RRSP matching plans.

Minimum qualifications:

• Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Application Development, or Information Technology
• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience        
• Demonstrated experience overseeing technical direction of large-scale projects 
• Strong communicator with the ability to work collaboratively across multiple teams
• Ability to analyze processes and information, identify problems and trends, and develop effective solutions and strategies

Preferred qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in Development
• Agile Certification or Project Management Certification
• Exposure to Ruby on Rails
• Experience working within a cloud-based infrastructure

About the role

The Manager, Application Development leads a team of developers in the planning, design, coordination and implementation of software applications. You will be responsible in managing relationships with various stakeholders and take the lead during requirements gathering. You should have an appetite for development opportunity and a drive to achieve greatness. You will work on core products, growth division products and even new products development when there's an opportunity. This role call for immense professional and personal growth opportunity, where you will have direct influence on the scaling of system and product growth for Info-Tech Research Group.

Major Responsibilities:

• Define technical solutions and research alternatives to meet business requirement goals, end user requirements and system requirements
• Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings. Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Define system responsibilities and document data flows between systems
• Write epics and detailed user stories to populate the product backlog. Estimate stories in the backlog to facilitate release planning, project approvals and prioritization
• Manage and provide direction for the application development team in support of business operations.
• Advocate ongoing system updates including hardware and platform solutions.
• Provide technical leadership to programmers working on development project teams.
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.

 ITRG is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other legally protected factors. To that end, upon request, ITRG will ensure, to the extent possible, that accommodation be made available to applicants throughout the recruitment and hiring process.

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