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National Bank of Canada
Senior Director, IT Delivery and Technology Platforms
Canada
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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About the opportunity
Field(s) of interest: Information Technology
Location(s): Montreal
Presence Hybrid
Job number 36228
Category Manager
Status: Permanent
Schedule: Full-time
Publication date 20-Oct-2026
A career as a Senior Director, IT Delivery and Technology Platforms at National Bank means acting as a leader of leaders and ensuring the evolution, performance, and longevity of a portfolio of critical technology assets. This role allows you to combine technical depth, operational excellence, value delivery, transformation through artificial intelligence, and talent development in a complex and transforming environment.
You will mobilize 3 to 4 managers responsible for technology assets and exert influence over an organization of approximately 50 to 75 people. The precise scope of the portfolio will be established based on sector priorities and the expertise of the selected candidate. It could notably include the mainframe platform and its related ecosystems.
Your team
The IT and Operations sector consists of more than 5 500 experts who work in an agile, proactive, and collaborative manner to seize opportunities, stay at the cutting edge of technology, and continuously improve processes.
You will report to a Senior Director, IT Delivery, whose overall scope covers the banking domain, the financing domain, and the mainframe platform. You will thus evolve within a diverse technological environment, alongside managers and teams responsible for these three areas. The precise scope of your portfolio may fall within one or more of these domains, depending on sector priorities and your expertise.
Our dynamic work environments and modern collaboration tools foster a pleasant employee experience. We place great importance on the ideas of our staff members. Whether through our surveys or through our programs, continuous dialogue and feedback are encouraged.
The audacity to act in a human environment
We are a bank on a human scale that stands out for its audacity, its entrepreneurial culture, and its passion for people. We exist to have a positive impact on people's lives. Our core values of complicity, agility, and empowerment are our sources of inspiration. Inclusion is at the heart of our commitments. We aim, as much as possible, to offer a barrier-free and accessible work environment for all employees.
We wish to provide, to the extent of our means, accessibility measures during the recruitment process. If you need accommodation, do not hesitate to let us know during your first exchanges with us. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and would like to know what you can add to our team.
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FOR AN ENVIRONMENT THAT FOSTERS YOUR GROWTH
Opportunities to progress and develop are numerous and varied to allow you to advance in your career. This can translate, in particular, into learning on the job and training, co-development or job shadowing, professional coaching or mentoring, internal career days, or forums to exchange with our leaders.
FOR AN INCLUSIVE AND DIVERSE ENVIRONMENT
We focus on inclusion in an environment where the expression of the unique characteristics that each person possesses, visible and invisible, is valued. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and would like to know what you can add to our team.
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Your role
- Lead, mobilize, and develop a team of 3 to 4 technology asset managers, supporting them in their decisions, their development, the management of their teams, and the achievement of sustainable results.
- Ensure the overall health and longevity of a portfolio of critical assets by balancing stability, resilience, security, obsolescence, capacity, performance, costs, service continuity, and modernization.
- Establish a vision and a technology roadmap balancing business needs, value delivery, modernization, risk reduction, and operational sustainability.
- Be accountable for the performance of the portfolio, particularly regarding quality, predictability, dependency management, investment prioritization, and the achievement of expected results.
- Exercise credible technological leadership with architects, specialists, delivery teams, and business partners, challenge orientations, and foster simple, sustainable, and pragmatic decisions.
- Support the evolution of legacy platforms, potentially including the mainframe, and ensure their coherent integration with modern architectures, API, data, cloud computing, automation, and artificial intelligence.
- Accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence in delivery and engineering practices, mobilize managers and their teams around concrete use cases, and foster the large-scale deployment of new ways of working.
- Develop managers and the next generation of talent, increase the depth of technological leadership, and build an organization capable of assuming future transformations and responsibilities, in partnership with business sectors, architecture, cybersecurity, operations, suppliers, and other technology teams.
We aim to offer you maximum flexibility to support your quality of life, notably through a hybrid work environment and a modular and adaptable schedule.
Your benefits
In addition to competitive compensation, we offer you, from the moment you are hired, a host of flexible benefits to support your well-being and that of your family, including:
- Health and wellness program including numerous options
- Flexible group insurance
- Generous pension plan
- Share purchase plan
- Employee and family assistance program
- Preferential banking services
- Involvement in community initiatives
- Telemedicine service
- Virtual sleep improvement clinic
We offer an evolving package that keeps up with trends, your needs, and those of your loved ones.
Minimum requirements
Prerequisites
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field and at least 10 years of relevant experience, or a related master's degree and at least 8 years of relevant experience.
- Significant experience in managing managers and leading large-scale technology teams.
- Professional background based on concrete and sufficiently deep technical experience to understand, question, and guide complex technological decisions, for example in software development, architecture, solution design, platform engineering, or technology operations.
- Demonstrated experience in managing critical technology assets or platforms, including their lifecycle, stability, modernization, and risks.
- Concrete experience using artificial intelligence in a technology delivery or engineering context, combined with a demonstrated ability to influence and accelerate its adoption among teams.
- Experience in delivering complex programs or initiatives involving multiple teams, partners, and dependencies.
- Ability to translate complex technical issues into clear decisions, priorities, and messages for executive and business audiences.
- Mobilizing leadership, management courage, judgment, political acumen, and the ability to act effectively in ambiguity.
Languages: English, French
Reason for requiring this language: to communicate frequently with our suppliers or partners who speak a language other than French.
SKILLS
Diversity and inclusion Results-oriented Emotional intelligence Problem solving Risk management Stakeholder management Cybersecurity Organizational alignment Attention to detail Mobilization Partnership development Resilience Strategy execution Team alignment Technical debt remediation
- Knowledge of mainframe environments and their modernization, resilience, and integration challenges, an asset.
- Experience in the financial sector or in a highly regulated environment, an asset.
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