Technical Lead, Delivery and Compliance (CDCC) [Remote]

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As part of TMX's critical post-trade infrastructure, the Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation (CDCC) stands at the heart of Canada's financial markets. We provide essential clearing and settlement services for all transactions on the Montreal Exchange (MX) and a growing range of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. CDCC acts as the central counterparty and the core clearing and settlement engine for MX's markets and select OTC products, ensuring stability and efficiency. 

Join our team as a Technical Lead, Delivery and Compliance (CDCC) and play a key role in driving the technical evolution of these vital services.

Job Description Summary

You will be a key member of a dynamic, multidisciplinary cluster consisting of Product Owners (Squad Leads), with each Squad comprising Developers, QA Testers, Business Analysts, and Architects, all working in a Scrum-based agile environment. 

As the Delivery Head, you will oversee the successful delivery of cluster initiatives, manage the cluster's capacity planning, and ensure risk management and compliance with CDCC regulators and internal policies. You will also foster collaboration and alignment with other clusters and departments across the organization to drive seamless integration and goal alignment.
In addition to your role as the Cluster Technical Lead, you will be responsible for spearheading innovation and continuous improvement, as well as ensuring operational excellence across all technical aspects of the cluster's projects and initiatives. You have a reporting relationship to the CDCC Cluster Lead.

Key Accountabilities: 

Delivery and compliance:

• Manage end-to-end delivery of initiatives, ensuring projects are completed on time, within scope, and on budget.

• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure project milestones and objectives are met.

• Ensure all projects and process comply with regulatory requirements and internal policies

• Liaise with Internal audit to ensure adherence to compliance frameworks

• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with project delivery, including regulatory, operational, and technical risks.

• Supervise the cluster initiatives deployment strategy

• Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure alignment and transparency.

• Present CDCC cluster in the inter-clusters delivery prioritization

• Oversee the cluster's capacity planning and resource allocation to meet project demands.

Technical Lead:

• Lead the Clearing solution automation testing enhancement

• Review the technical debts and  their prioritization with the Squad Leads

• Collaborate with architects and other technical leads to maintain a cohesive architecture across the cluster and the broader organization.

• Constantly seek to improve team performance through tracking key metrics

• Contribute the design of technical solutions to ensure they meet business and technical requirements.

Skills and Experience:

Must haves: 

• Solid experience in delivering mission critical systems, including upstream and downstream supporting applications with integration to marketplaces

• Good understanding of technology architecture and experience in technology delivery  

• Displays Client Centric Mindset 

• Excellent communication and people-interaction skills

• Background and knowledge in Agile Product development methodology  

• Experience in managing day-to-day relationships with internal and external partners  

• Strong attention to detail, good communication skills, ability to work well in a team environment, self- starter, results oriented, ability to cope with change  

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or Technical and/or strong software development background

• Effective in motivating teams and guiding them through impediments and/or conflict. 

• Ability to rationalize design decisions in a clear and objective manner

• Excellent interpersonal skills and team player

• Good analytical and effective problem solver

• Ability to juggle multiple projects simultaneously and manage time efficiently

• Strong skills and experience in understanding real-time business applications

• Fluency in both French and English (written and spoken) is required, as this role involves regular interaction with partners and stakeholders in both languages

Nice to haves:

• Knowledge of CDCC business and the clearing/settlement industry

• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines).

• Awareness of cloud technologies AWS and Containerization (Kubernetes)

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