Senior Manager, Innovation Development
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About the Role
MNP is seeking a Senior Manager, Innovation Development to lead the end-to-end development lifecycle for new innovation-driven products. You will define technical vision, collaborate with stakeholders, and build high-performing teams in a cloud-first, Agile environment.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the end to end development lifecycle for new innovation driven products and solutions, defining technical vision, architecture direction, and engineering approach
- Collaborate with Innovation, Solution Delivery, and business stakeholders to translate concepts into technical requirements, user stories, and sprint plans
- Collaborate with Data Engineering and Machine Learning teams to integrate AI/ML capabilities into production applications
- Establish engineering discipline ensuring code quality, automated testing, architectural consistency, and documentation practices
- Design and guide development of modern, cloud native applications using microservices, event driven patterns, and modern front end architectures
- Ensure solutions are built for scale, reusability, and long term sustainability
- Provide hands on architectural and technical leadership, reviewing technical decisions and solution designs
- Build and lead a high performing development team, coaching developers and fostering a modern development culture
- Champion modern engineering best practices including DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, test automation, security by design, and observability
- Collaborate with Architecture and Cloud Teams to ensure alignment on design patterns, cloud standards, and data strategy
- Drive continuous improvement by introducing tools and processes that increase developer velocity and reliability
- Proactively manage delivery risks, dependencies, and timelines
Requirements
- At least five years of experience leading modern software development teams in an Agile, cloud first environment
- Proven experience delivering cloud native applications using C#, .NET, RESTful services, Azure, and modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks such as Angular
- Strong understanding of modern architecture patterns including microservices, domain driven design, API first development, and event driven systems
- Experience with Azure data services (Cosmos DB, Azure SQL)
- Demonstrated ability to implement engineering practices that prevent technical debt (automated testing, CI/CD, code review, architectural guardrails, monitoring)
- Strong experience operating in Agile delivery models
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills
- Strong problem solving abilities
- Experience in early stage product development, R&D, or innovation environments is a strong asset
Full Job Posting
Overview
- MNP is a leading national accounting, tax and business advisory firm in Canada.
- The Technology Development team is looking for a Senior Manager, Innovation Development to lead innovation driven product development.
Responsibilities
- Lead the end to end development lifecycle for new innovation driven products and solutions, defining technical vision, architecture direction, and engineering approach.
- Collaborate closely with Innovation, Solution Delivery, and business stakeholders to translate concepts into technical requirements, user stories, and sprint plans.
- Collaborate with Data Engineering and Machine Learning teams to integrate AI/ML capabilities into production applications.
- Establish engineering discipline from day one, ensuring code quality, automated testing, architectural consistency, and documentation practices.
- Design and guide development of modern, cloud native applications leveraging microservices, event driven patterns, and modern front end architectures.
- Ensure solutions are built for scale, reusability, and long term sustainability.
- Provide hands on architectural and technical leadership, reviewing technical decisions and solution designs.
- Build and lead a high performing development team, coaching developers and fostering a modern development culture.
- Champion modern engineering best practices including DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, test automation, security by design, and observability.
- Collaborate with Architecture and Cloud Teams to ensure alignment on design patterns, cloud standards, and data strategy.
- Drive continuous improvement by introducing tools and processes that increase developer velocity and reliability.
- Proactively manage delivery risks, dependencies, and timelines.
Skills And Experience
- At least five years of experience leading modern software development teams in an Agile, cloud first environment.
- Proven experience delivering cloud native applications using C#, .NET, RESTful services, Azure, and modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks such as Angular.
- Strong understanding of modern architecture patterns including microservices, domain driven design, API first development, and event driven systems.
- Experience with Azure data services (Cosmos DB, Azure SQL) and comfort working across hybrid data environments.
- Demonstrated ability to implement engineering practices that prevent technical debt: automated testing, CI/CD, code review, architectural guardrails, monitoring and observability.
- Strong experience operating in Agile delivery models with ability to shape backlog structure and guide teams through rapid iteration.
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills with ability to engage senior stakeholders.
- Strong problem solving abilities and comfort operating in environments requiring creativity and experimentation.
- Experience in early stage product development, R&D, or innovation environments is a strong asset.
MyRewards@MNP
- Generous base pay, vacation time, 4 paid personal days.
- Group pension plan with 4% matching, voluntary savings products, bonus programs.
- Flexible benefits, mental health resources, exclusive access to perks and discounts.
- Professional development assistance, MNP University, flexible 'Dress For Your Day' environment, firm sponsored social events.
Diversity@MNP
- MNP embraces diversity as a core value and encourages people with disabilities to apply.
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