We are hiring a Senior Application Development Technical Lead, IT
Reporting To: Director and Team Lead
Full-Time/Part-Time: Full-Time
Posting Date: June 26, 2026
Closing Date: July 10, 2026
Salary Range: $133,641-$153,641
Hours of Work: 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Grade: 16.4
Office Location: Toronto, ON

What we offer:
Highly competitive compensation package which includes base salary, bonus, benefits, and career advancement opportunities!

• Eligibility for benefits is dependent on the terms of employment

The Opportunity

The Senior Application Development Technical Lead provides technical leadership to a cross-functional product team responsible for analyzing, developing, and implementing application changes and enhancements. The Senior Technical Lead ensures the technical quality, scalability, and maintainability of assigned applications while guiding development standards and supporting modernization initiatives. The Senior Technical lead will provide mentoring and coaching to the other members on their team.

How you will contribute:

• Lead application development efforts from concept through implementation.
• Participate actively in all phases of development, including research, design, coding, testing, and deployment.
• Provide high-level estimates and contribute to impact and risk assessments during early project stages.
• Ensure alignment with application modernization plans and architecture roadmaps.
• Promote best practices, coding standards, and design principles across the team.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to other members of the team
• Ability to work with various stakeholders to gather consensus and make informed decisions.

The experience you need:
Skills and Attributes:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to guide, mentor, and direct team members to build technical capabilities.
• COBOL, DB2, IBM iSeries experience
• Strong technical skills and hands on development and production support experience with legacy mortgage administration systems.
• Expert in understanding the mortgage lifecycle.
• Experience in the mortgage industry
• Experience with Mortgage Administration Systems
• Expertise in one or more technical domains with ability to advise on technology decisions.
• Strong analysis/debugging skills to help remove blockers for the team.
• Skilled at presenting technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and multitask effectively.

Education/Certification/Experience Requirements:

• Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum 10+ years of experience in application development.
• Minimum 5+ years leading developers or technical initiatives.
• Working knowledge of UML and other architecture modelling notations (class diagrams, sequence diagrams, use cases, etc.).
• Strong understanding of OOP concepts and frameworks.
• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

Nice to Have:

• .NET, Angular, Blazor
• REST, SOA
• Entity Framework, MS SQL

Working Environment and Physical Demands Analysis:

• Office environment
• Periods of high volume with tight timelines
• Long periods of stationary position/sitting
• Prolonged periods of repetitive movement (i.e. using a keyboard and mouse)
• Long periods of time in viewing a computer screen
• Multi-tasking may include speaking to customers on a telephone call while looking up information on a computer program.

Why join First National?

• Competitive Compensation
• Comprehensive benefits program (i.e., Health Spending Account, Maternity and Parental Leave Top Up)
• Virtual work environment
• Extensive training programs to set our employees up for success
• Modern office environment conducive to collaboration
• Supportive teamwork culture
• Opportunities to give back to the communities and work through events focused on a variety of charities
• Ongoing social events throughout the year

The team you’ll join:
Founded in 1988, First National is one of Canada’s largest non-bank lenders. We provide residential mortgages exclusively through the mortgage broker channel and we are Canada’s largest commercial mortgage lender.
First National has been consistently recognized as a great place to work and we are proud that our employee engagement feedback is higher than our industry partners.

We would like to thank all applications for their interest in this existing vacancy but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

First National is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity and inclusion regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender identity, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation and any other category protected by law.

First National supports requests for accommodation from applicants with disabilities; please contact Human Resources at accessibility@firstnational.ca should you need an accommodation at any point in the recruitment process.

Artificial Intelligence is not used in our recruitment or hiring process for this role.

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