Manager, Business Enterprise Systems

Build something people love Wealthsimple is Canada’s leading financial innovator. The company offers a full suite of simple, sophisticated financial products across managed investing, do-it-yourself trading, cryptocurrency, tax filing, spending and saving. Wealthsimple currently serves more than 4 million Canadians and holds over $155 billion in assets under administration. The company was founded in 2014 by a team of financial experts and technology entrepreneurs, and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. We're proud of what we've built — and we're just getting started. Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work . As Manager, Business Enterprise Systems, you will lead the team that builds and operates Wealthsimple's business-critical systems of record and the integrations between them. You will manage a team of developers while remaining hands-on in the code and the architecture yourself. Your role centres on building durable relationships with leaders across Finance, Legal, CS Ops, Security, and Data, translating their operating problems into system design, and owning delivery end to end. You will report to the Senior Manager, Business Enterprise Systems and have a mandate to make the business measurably better at running itself. Responsibilities: Build and sustain trusted relationships with business leaders across Finance, HR, Legal, Customer Operations and Experience, Security, IT and Data, becoming the partner they can bring problems to early rather than late. Translate business operating pain into technical scope by asking the second and third question, challenging requests that don't hold up, and proposing better options when the answer is no. Contribute directly as a builder: write and review production code, lead the design on complex integrations, and take on the ambiguous cross-system problems yourself. Own the technical standard for the team through design review, code review, and architectural direction. Manage, coach, and develop a team of developers with clear expectations, early and specific feedback, and genuine investment in their growth and trajectory. Own delivery of the team's commitments on initiatives spanning multiple functions, including scope, sequencing, dependencies, risk, and a status the business can trust. Maintain release and change discipline across business-critical systems, including deployment cadence, environment strategy, rollback paths, and audit-ready change controls. Provide a clear, regular view of team throughput, backlog health, and system risk so leadership never has to ask how the area is doing. What You Bring: People who will succeed in this role are: Trusted Partners : they build real relationships with non-technical leaders who have no obligation to give them trust, and they can hold a line on scope without damaging the relationship. Hands-On Builders : they are not hesitant to jump in. They lead by example in the code and the design, and their technical judgment is current rather than remembered. Empathetic Leaders with a High Bar : they understand what their people are carrying and factor it in, and they still give the honest feedback early, because letting someone stall out is the worse outcome. Skills and Experience We are looking for amazing people to join our team. If you think you are a great fit for the role but don't hit every single requirement, consider reaching out anyway. 6+ years of application development experience, including at least 2 years of managing a development team and leading them through successful delivery of custom builds. Strong working knowledge of at least one general-purpose language such as Java, TypeScript, Ruby, or Python, with recent hands-on experience building production systems. Experience planning and furthering the professional growth of individual team members, including 1-1s, performance reviews, ongoing feedback, goal-setting, and promotions. A track record of providing technica