The Applications Development Group Manager is a senior management level position responsible for accomplishing results through the management of a team or department in an effort to establish and implement new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology Team. The overall objective of this role is to drive applications systems analysis and programming activities.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development of wealth-lending platforms (SBL, margin lending, structured credit), remaining actively hands-on in coding core APIs, distributed services, and orchestration components.

• Architect horizontally scalable, cloud-native APIs and microservices that support high-throughput lending workflows, real-time credit decisioning, margin evaluation, and lifecycle servicing.

• Design modular, event-driven systems that can be dynamically orchestrated through workflow engines and service choreography patterns to enable flexible product configuration and rapid iteration.

• Apply strong analytical thinking and fluid intelligence to decompose complex lending, collateral, margin, and regulatory requirements into clean domain models and extensible service boundaries.

• Establish engineering standards across system design, API contracts, resiliency patterns, observability, performance optimization, and secure coding practices.

• Guide the team through hands-on code reviews, architecture reviews, and technical mentoring, elevating distributed systems design and scalable service engineering practices.

• Ensure services are built for fault tolerance, idempotency, concurrency control, and horizontal elasticity across modern cloud environments.

• Partner closely with business, risk, and operations stakeholders to translate evolving lending strategies into scalable, compliant, and high-performance technology solutions.

Qualifications:

• 14+ years of relevant experience

• Experience in applications development

• Experience in management

• Experience managing global technology teams

• Working knowledge of industry practices and standards

• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

• Master’s degree preferred

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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