Senior Manager,Technical Management Job Toronto area,Ontario Canada,IT/Tech

Senior Manager, Technical Management

Location: This position will be based out of our Winnipeg or Toronto office.

Our organization
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Founded in 2017, Wellington-Altus Financial Inc. (Wellington-Altus) is the parent company to Wellington-Altus Private Counsel Inc., Wellington-Altus USA Inc., Wellington-Altus Insurance Inc., Wellington-Altus Group Solutions Inc., and Wellington-Altus Private Wealth Inc.

-the top-rated
* investment dealer in Canada and one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies. With over $45 billion in assets under administration and offices across the country, Wellington-Altus identifies with successful, entrepreneurial advisors and portfolio managers and their high-net-worth clients.

* Investment Executive 2025 Brokerage Report Card.

The opportunity:

Reporting to the VP, Technology Services the Senior Manager, Technical Management is a leader responsible for shaping and executing the enterprise-wide Infrastructure strategy. This role leads high-performance teams in building scalable, secure, and automated systems that support the company’s initiatives. The Senior Technical Manager bridges the gap between development, operations, architecture, Info Sec, and business stakeholders, providing both technical depth and leadership.
This position combines hands-on engineering with stakeholder engagement, strategic planning, team development, and the continuous evolution of technology practices across the enterprise.

Key responsibilities include:

Partner with Architecture and Info Sec to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and compliance requirements

Collaborate with other technological and business teams

Serve as the enterprise Subject Matter Expert (SME) and thought leader on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and cloud-native delivery models

Define and own the roadmap for platform engineering; champion industry best practices and continuous improvement

Drive standardization of technology practices and toolsets across teams and business lines

Develop KPIs to measure and communicate performance and delivery outcomes to senior leadership

Guide complex, large-scale deployments across multi-cloud environments

Lead design and implementation of resilient service mesh, observability platforms, and container orchestration at scale

Maintain hands-on engagement in architecture decisions, performance optimization, and incident resolution as needed

Evangelize security-as-code, reliability, and automation-first culture

Build, inspire, and retain a high-performing engineering team, network, and systems teams; mentor senior engineers and promote engineering excellence

Manage resource allocation, capacity planning, and succession planning for infrastructure teams

Collaborate with PMO and Delivery Management teams to prioritize and deliver strategic & tactical initiatives

Act as a senior escalation point for enterprise-critical delivery and operations issues

Cultivate strong working relationships with business and technology executives

Other duties as assigned

The ideal candidate will possess:

7-10 years total experience in infrastructure and operations space

Bachelor’s in computer science, technical diploma or equivalent

AWS Certified is a strong asset

Expert knowledge of cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) and managing cloud-native application stacks

Advanced expertise in containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), configuration management (Terraform, Ansible), and monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)

Proven experience scaling infrastructure capabilities in regulated industries (financial services)

Experience with ITSM, incident management, compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO, etc.)

Management of multiple cloud platform and services

Management of multiple applications and systems

Collaborative configuration of networking and security properties

Collaborative automated and manual deployment of services and applications

Collaborative infrastructure management and system administration

Fundamentals of virtual machines and containers

Fundamentals of networking

Fundamentals of cloud security

Fundamentals of enterprise monitoring

Compensation & Benefits:

Range $125,000 to $135,000 annually.

This range represents Wellington-Altus's expected range…