Vice President, Engineering

We are hiring a VP, Engineering!

Reporting To

CPTO

Full-time

September 9, 2026

September 30, 2026

8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Office

Location:

30.4 Toronto, ON Great location! Steps away from the main public transit station

• Eligibility for benefits is dependent on the terms of employment

The Vice President, Engineering reports to the Chief Product and Technology Officer and is accountable for the application engineering organization, including engineering standards, technical delivery, software quality, release readiness, application reliability, supportability, and modernization.

This role leads the teams and practices to design, build, test, release, support, and modernize applications, platforms, and systems that enable underwriting, servicing, funding and internal and external experiences (broker, customer, and partner).

The VP, Engineering leads an integrated Engineering organization that includes the product aligned delivery capabilities required to translate business priorities into clear roadmaps, sequenced execution plans, and measurable technology outcomes.

• Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary engineering organization, including engineering managers, technical leads, application engineering teams, QA, Dev Sec Ops , release management, solution architecture, and application support.
• Set and improve engineering standards and SDLC practices by embedding QA, test automation, Dev Sec Ops , solution architecture, release readiness, change management, observability, and operational support into an end-to-end delivery model.
• Establish and manage engineering performance measures across predictability, productivity, software quality, release health, application reliability, supportability, and technical debt reduction.
• Lead the product aligned delivery planning needed to translates business priorities and product roadmaps into sequenced engineering plans with clear tradeoffs, dependencies, risks, capacity assumptions, and release readiness expectations.
• Lead planning, sequencing, capacity tradeoffs, and delivery commitments across engineering, product delivery, and business analysis teams, ensuring modernization, automation, AI enabled delivery, prioritize investments based on business value, risk reduction, supportability, and measurable impact.
• Ensure architecture and technical designs are scalable, secure, maintainable, testable, observable, supportable, and aligned to enterprise standards.
• Lead modernization of priority applications and components where modernization improves business agility, risk posture, scalability, cost efficiency, security, reliability, or long-term supportability.
• Reduce technical debt and improve maintainability, integration, and operational readiness by using AI assisted engineering, automation, reusable components, cloud services, modern architecture patterns, and off-the-shelf libraries where appropriate.
• Own application-level supportability, defect resolution, production readiness, and response to issues with Enterprise IT and Infrastructure on environments, cloud platforms, monitoring, deployment automation, infrastructure operations, system health, and platform reliability.
• Partner with Technology Governance, Risk and Performance to advance SDLC standards, change management, incident management, controls, risk, and delivery reporting.
• Build a high performance engineering culture with modern capabilities, learning agility, technical discipline, strong ownership of outcomes, and accountability for measurable Outcomes.
• Operate as a member of the CPTO leadership team, helping Engineering, product delivery, Enterprise IT and Infrastructure, and Technology Governance,…