Product Manager, Core Platforms
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Questrade Financial Group is seeking a Product Manager for Core Platforms to lead the Fundamental Customer Capabilities Track including Customer Identity Access Management, Notification Platform, and Enterprise Document Management.
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Responsibilities
- Act as first line of defense in product design with a security first mindset
- Champion outcomes over outputs approach using continuous discovery habits
- Treat internal capabilities as tier 1 products and track key product metrics
- Lead execution of the Fundamental Customer Capabilities program
- Drive roadmap for IAM systems including authentication, authorization, SSO, and identity federation
- Evolve omni channel Customer Notification Platform (Email, SMS, Push, In App)
- Oversee Enterprise Document Strategy for secure document storage and retrieval
- Translate complex technical constraints into detailed user stories and technical specifications
- Proactively gather insights via ad hoc queries to drive product recommendations
- Identify risks and dependencies in distributed systems and event based messaging
- Align cross functional stakeholders behind projects and integrate feedback
Requirements
- 3 5+ years of experience in product management, platform engineering, or systems analysis within financial services or enterprise SaaS
- 7+ years of cumulative professional experience across industries
- Post secondary education, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field
- Deep understanding of modern product management principles and lean startup methodologies
- Platform Product Mindset with ability to abstract complex system logic into reusable APIs and microservices
- Hands on proficiency with APIs and tools like Postman
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Company Overview
- Questrade Financial Group (QFG) provides securities and foreign currency investment, managed portfolios, mortgages, real estate services, and more.
- We are everything a traditional financial institution is not.
- At QFG, we have a culture of innovation where technology serves people.
Role Overview
- The Product Manager, Core Platforms is a champion for building foundational, highly scalable infrastructure for the Quest ecosystem.
- You will lead program execution and manage the product roadmap for the Fundamental Customer Capabilities Track (Customer Identity Access Management, Notification Platform, and Enterprise Document Management).
Responsibilities
- Security & Client Protection Advocate: Act as the first line of defense in product design.
- Modern Product Discovery & Delivery: Champion an 'outcomes over outputs' approach.
- Platform as a Product Strategy: Treat internal capabilities as tier 1 products.
- Program Execution & Roadmap Management: Lead the execution of the Fundamental Customer Capabilities program.
- Identity & Access Management (IAM) Strategy: Drive the roadmap for robust IAM systems.
- Notification & Communication Infrastructure: Evolve the omni channel Customer Notification Platform.
- Enterprise Document Strategy: Oversee systems for secure document storage, generation, and retrieval.
- Requirements Definition: Translate complex technical constraints into detailed user stories.
- Fluency with Data: Demonstrate strong grasp of internal analytics tools.
- Distributed systems and event based messaging: Leverage understanding of technical architecture.
- API Fluency: Hands on proficiency with APIs and tools like Postman.
- Stakeholder Management: Proactively identify and align cross functional stakeholders.
Qualifications
- 3 5+ years’ experience in product management, platform engineering, or systems analysis within financial services or enterprise SaaS.
- 7+ years of cumulative professional experience across industries.
- Post secondary education, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
- Deeply passionate about security.
- Stay relentlessly up to date on latest technologies and security trends.
- Deeply understand modern product management principles.
- Possess a Platform Product Mindset.
Additional Kudos If You…
- Demonstrate working knowledge of IAM protocols (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0, SCIM, JWT).
- Have foundational knowledge of authentication mechanisms (Risk Based Authentication, Passwordless, FIDO2/WebAuthn, MFA).
- Have experience with Identity Providers (Okta, Auth0, Ping Identity, Azure AD) or directory services (LDAP).
- Have deep familiarity with data privacy regulations (GDPR, PIPEDA) and security frameworks (SOC2).
- Have experience transitioning legacy monolithic applications into microservices.
- Are comfortable presenting complex technical initiatives to executive teams.
- Experience in banking/financial/investment systems development.
- Knowledge of writing/understanding API documentation.
- Knowledge in data analysis using SQL.
- CSPO, CSM or other relevant certification an asset.
- Have practical experience using AI powered development tools (Cursor, GitHub Copilot).
Compensation Information
- Base salary range: CAD 120,000 CAD 150,000.
- Includes comprehensive benefits plan and competitive incentive (bonus) program.
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