Senior Technical Lead

Location: Toronto

Final date to receive applications:10/30/2026

Address:100 King Street West Job Family Group:

Technology Lead the Next Wave of Innovation at BMOAt BMO, we're leveraging emerging technologies, modern engineering practices, and AI-powered solutions to transform the future of banking. We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Technical Lead who combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership capabilities to drive the evolution of critical enterprise platforms that support our customers, employees, and business operations.

This is a unique opportunity to lead the design, delivery, stability, and continuous improvement of strategic platforms while working with cutting-edge technologies including Generative AI, Open Search, Dynatrace, Oracle/SQL, Mainframe ecosystems, cloud technologies, APIs, and enterprise-scale production environments.

As a technical leader, you'll influence platform strategy, guide engineering teams, solve complex business and technology challenges, and help shape the future of digital banking at one of North America's leading financial institutions.

What You'll DoAs a Senior Technical Lead, you will:

Lead the design, development, modernization, and optimization of business-critical platforms and applications.

Drive platform stability, scalability, performance, security, and operational excellence across the technology ecosystem.

Partner with business stakeholders, product teams, architects, and engineering leaders to define platform strategy, roadmaps, and execution plans.

Build and implement innovative solutions leveraging Generative AI capabilities to improve productivity, operational efficiency, monitoring, search, and customer experiences.

Utilize Dynatrace and observability best practices to proactively monitor system health, identify issues, improve performance, and enhance reliability.

Design and support enterprise search solutions utilizing Open Search and related search technologies.

Support and optimize applications leveraging Oracle/SQL databases, ensuring performance, integrity, and scalability.

Collaborate across modern and legacy technology environments, including Mainframe systems, batch processing frameworks, and distributed applications.

Provide leadership and expertise for production support activities, incident management, root-cause analysis, and problem resolution.

Drive automation initiatives that improve operational efficiency, platform resilience, and service quality.

Lead the implementation and management of APIs and platform integrations while ensuring security, resilience, and scalability.

Analyze platform performance, adoption trends, and operational data to identify opportunities for optimization and continuous improvement.

Guide development teams through all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).Mentor developers and promote engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous learning.

Key Responsibilities Build strong relationships with business and technology stakeholders to understand platform vision and align delivery with strategic objectives.

Prioritize, manage, and support a portfolio of customer-facing and internal platform initiatives.

Monitor platform health, adoption metrics, service performance, and operational effectiveness.

Document business rules, process flows, technical designs, architecture decisions, and functional specifications.

Analyze platform data to drive enhancements, performance improvements, and operational efficiencies.

Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions that strengthen BMO's technology capabilities.

Ensure compliance with service level agreements, support standards, security policies, and regulatory requirements.

Manage technical requirements including API integrations, platform services, and supporting infrastructure components.

Work independently while leading complex initiatives and navigating ambiguity.

Provide specialized consulting, technical leadership, analytical expertise, and production support guidance.

Apply BMO's Risk Management Framework and ensure all solutions align with security, governance, compliance, and operational standards.

Technical Skills & Experience Required Skills5-7+ years of experience in software development, platform engineering, application support, or related technology roles.

Strong experience designing, building, and supporting enterprise-scale software solutions.

Experience working with Generative AI solutions, including AI-powered automation, developer productivity tools, and emerging AI…