Manager, Business Enterprise Systems

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Manager, Business Enterprise Systems based in Canada. As Manager, Business Enterprise Systems, you will lead a team responsible for building and operating business-critical systems and the integrations that connect them. You will combine people leadership with hands-on engineering, contributing directly to production code, architecture, and complex cross-system solutions. Working closely with Finance, HR, Legal, Customer Operations, Security, IT, and Data leaders, you will translate business challenges into durable technical solutions. You will own delivery across initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, balancing scope, dependencies, risk, resources, and competing priorities. The role also provides significant influence over engineering standards, release practices, system reliability, and the team's long-term technical direction. You will help developers grow through clear expectations, thoughtful coaching, and meaningful career development. This is an opportunity to improve how a growing organization operates while working in a collaborative, technology-driven, and continuously evolving environment. Accountabilities: - Build trusted relationships with leaders across Finance, HR, Legal, Customer Operations and Experience, Security, IT, and Data, becoming a strategic technical partner for business challenges. - Translate operational needs and business pain points into clear technical requirements, challenging assumptions and proposing effective alternatives where appropriate. - Remain hands-on by writing and reviewing production code, leading technical design for complex integrations, and solving ambiguous cross-system challenges. - Establish and maintain the team's technical standards through architecture reviews, design decisions, code reviews, and technical guidance.

- Manage, coach, and develop a team of software developers through regular one-on-ones, goal setting, performance feedback, career planning, and promotion processes. - Set clear expectations and provide timely, specific feedback while supporting team members' professional growth and long-term development. - Own delivery of cross-functional initiatives, including scope definition, sequencing, dependencies, resources, risks, deadlines, and stakeholder communication. - Maintain disciplined release and change-management practices across business-critical systems, including deployment cadence, environment strategy, rollback procedures, and audit-ready controls. - Monitor team throughput, backlog health, delivery progress, and system risks, providing leadership with clear and reliable visibility. - Allocate resources and shape technical roadmaps while balancing competing priorities and communicating trade-offs effectively. - Drive process improvements and ensure business systems remain reliable, scalable, maintainable, and aligned with organizational needs. - Identify opportunities to use AI tools to accelerate software development and automate business workflows. - Collaborate across functions to improve integrations, data flows, and the overall effectiveness of enterprise technology systems. Requirements: - 6+ years of application development experience, including at least 2 years managing a development team and leading successful delivery of custom software solutions. - Strong working knowledge of at least one general-purpose programming language such as Java, TypeScript, Ruby, or Python, with recent hands-on production development experience. - Proven experience managing and developing software engineers through one-on-ones, performance reviews, feedback, goal setting, and career progression. - Demonstrated ability to provide technical and process leadership throughout the software development lifecycle.