Manager, Custom Applications
Job Location:
Mississauga - Canada
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Job Summary
Flynn Group of Companies North Americasfastest growingand leading building envelope contractor is looking for a Manager Custom Applications to lead our in-house software development team from our Mississauga office.
Here atFlynnyoullhave the opportunity to lead a talented team delivering a portfolio of mobile and web applications that produce real measurable results for the in a technologically challenging fast-paced environment where your leadership communication and technical judgment will shape how our applications excellent benefits a genuine commitment to work/life balance funded training and the ability to be recognized for your talent.
Imagine taking your career to the next level where your leadership empowers a team to deliver their best and where your work directly improves the productivity of thousands of people in the field and across the business every day.
Our Development Team
We are a collaborative team that works closely together to solve hard problems and deliver testable high-quality secure a collection of mobile and web applications primarily for internal users but also some external-facing products. The teamyoulllead has grown well beyond its original size and today includes experienced developers and dedicated quality-assurance professionals working across multiple applications.
The Role
Reporting to the Director Applications the Manager Custom Applications leads the delivery of Flynns portfolio of internal and external mobile and web applications. You will lead a team of 14 developers and 3 quality-assurance analysts; overseeing the end-to-end development lifecycle across multiple concurrent products.
This role exists to turn business-prioritized work into well-planned high-quality tested releases while empowering an experienced team to own their craft their development processes and Flynns technical-debt posture. Success is measured by the business value your team delivers and by a team that is performing continually upskilling and trusted to make decisions.
You will partner closely with our Business Analysis team who own analysis and product-owner responsibilities and hand over business-prioritized work. Your focus is delivery: organizing that work with your senior developers balancing it against the technical priorities your team surfaces and driving it through to release. You will make the call on the minimalviablereleaseand once a decision is made to build something you commit to it and put the right guardrails in place.
Youll need to zoom in on detailed technical questions with your developers and zoom back out to build the tactics that deliver on our overall strategy. You will keep quality assurance independent in how it plans and reports its outcomes so that testing is never influenced by the development team.
Delivery Management
Own sprint planning and execution across the application portfolio with your senior developers driving planning sessions and advocating for what goes into each release.
Make minimal-viable-release decisions sequence work realistically and commit to what the team takes on.
Ensure that when work reaches leadership for a go/no-go decision it carries enough context to act on.
Lead development teams to translate business goals into scalable technical solutions by partnering with IT leadsand business analyststo build technical roadmaps guide the teamsto definesystem architecture and drive adoption of emerging technologies.
Run the daily stand-up and keep delivery visible and on track.
People Leadership and Team Development
Lead coach and develop a team of 11 developers and 3 quality-assurance analysts.
Maintainlearning-and-developmentplans with each team member and hold regular touch-point meetings.
Proactivelyidentifyand close skills gaps and plan internal and external resourcing for the skills Flynn will need in the future.
Holda clear visionof where the application landscape should go next and structure and guide the team to perform.
Build and drive adherence to standards for systems development and securearchitecture
Technical Credibility and Escalation Support
Bring a deep technical background (ideally7 years of hands-on coding) so you can read codeparticipatein architectural discussions and earn the teams trust.
Stay close enough to the work to jump into production escalations help analyze a situation and weigh risk against reward.
Technical-Debt and Tooling Stewardship
Own a framework for managing technical debt across the portfolio.
Track SDK and toolinglifecycle andstay ahead of components approaching end-of-support or end-of-life.
Coordinate reviews with vendor professional-services teams tovalidatehow Flynn has configured its tools.
Lead the analysis of when to remediate in place versus adopt an alternative with your senior developers driving the pieces.
AI-Enabled Features
Identifyand deliver forward-looking AI capabilities into the application portfolio.
Do so in a cost-conscious way that adds value to the business without overextending the budget.
Bring initiative and practical ideas to this area rather than waiting for direction.
Collaboration with Business Analysis and Quality Assurance
Partner with the Business Analysis team on prioritized work delivery capacity and splitting releases when scope exceeds capacity.
Participate in business roadmap planning to keep the forward-looking product direction aligned.
Maintain the independence of quality assurance within yourteamso testing outcomes are objective.
Quality and Engineering Discipline
Ensure testing is built into software development from the start.
Ensure the team uses peer-review processes so that high-quality code is written.
Ensure security is considered throughout development and testedfrequently.
HowYoullApproach the Role
Change is expected in this role and things will need to evolve. What matters is how you approach that change: openly tactically and by bringing the team with you. You will earn buy-in on how things change rather than arriving with a fixed plan to rebuild everything at once. You are as comfortable making a pragmatic prioritized call on a piece of work as you are thinking about the bigger encouragecontinuous improvement through the adoption of best practices team development and practical innovation. With a balance of technicalexpertiseandpeopleleadershipyouhelp deliver successful development outcomes that support both current priorities and future businessobjectives.
Our Technology
You will be joining a live modernization effort not a greenfield should be comfortable working across an established stack while helping guide the team toward our target architecture.
Our current stack is built on C# delivered on-premises and via Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS with SQL Server MySQL and MongoDB for databases and JavaScript (AngularKendoUI) on the web and Xamarin (C#) Swift and Java on mobile. We are moving toward native mobile development with iOS (Swift /SwiftUI andUIKit) and Android (Kotlin / Jetpack Compose) andadding PostgreSQL to our database layer.
Skills and Qualifications
A university degree preferably in Computer Science Engineering or Business Administration.
Several years of experience leading technical teams ideally including time as a senior developer team lead or development manager.
Deep hands-on software development background with the ability to read code and contribute to architectural discussions.
Familiarity with AI-powered development tools such as GitHub Copilot Claude Code or similar
Experience managing developers and quality-assurance professionals in commercial application development or a large enterprise environment.
Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and Agile practices (Scrum Kanban).
Solid understanding of architecture and design principles for n-tier applications microservices SaaS applications data integration reporting dashboards and web-based applications.
Experience managing technical debt toolinglifecycles and vendor relationships.
Experience with a modern issue-tracking and collaboration toolset such as Atlassian Jira and Confluence is an asset.
Outstanding communication skills with the ability to explain the why behind priorities and to give honest specific feedback.
Demonstrated ability to organize and execute work independently and effectively within deadlines.
About You
You empower your team to own their work and make decisions and you focus on outcomes rather than activity.
You protect your team from organizational distractions and pressure and you remove obstacles quickly.
You maketimely informed decisions own the outcomes and adjust when new dataemerges.
You are passionate about building your team and about delighting the people who use what you build.
You are curious willing to question the status quo and comfortable giving and receiving constructive feedback.
You thrive in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift with business needs. This is not a role for someone who prefers toworka single project end-to-end in isolation.
Required Experience:
Manager
About Company
With 35 offices across the United States and Canada, Flynn is the leading commercial roofing, glazing, & cladding contractor in North America.
