Manager, Custom Applications

At Flynn, it's not just a job, it's a career Flynn Group of Companies, North America’s fastest growing and leading building envelope contractor, is looking for a Manager, Custom Applications to lead our in-house software development team from our Mississauga office.  Here at Flynn, you’ll have the opportunity to lead a talented team delivering a portfolio of mobile and web applications that produce real, measurable results for the business. You’ll work in a technologically challenging, fast-paced environment where your leadership, communication, and technical judgment will shape how our applications evolve. You’ll enjoy excellent benefits, a genuine commitment to work/life balance, funded training, and the ability to be recognized for your talent.  Imagine taking your career to the next level, where your leadership empowers a team to deliver their best, and where your work directly improves the productivity of thousands of people in the field and across the business every day.  Our Development Team  We are a collaborative team that works closely together to solve hard problems and deliver testable, high-quality, secure software. We’ve built a collection of mobile and web applications, primarily for internal users but also some external-facing products. The team you’ll lead has grown well beyond its original size and today includes experienced developers and dedicated quality-assurance professionals working across multiple applications.   What we offer:  -Funded training and development program -Very well-equipped on-site gym w/ free access -Dental and supplemental medical plan -Matching RRSP contributions -Employee and Family Assistance Program -Subsidized onsite cafeteria with excellent food choices! -Free parking and EV Charging facility -Family Events and Flynn Fest   The Role  Reporting to the Director, Applications, the Manager, Custom Applications leads the delivery of Flynn’s portfolio of internal and external mobile and web applications. You will lead a team of 14 developers and 3 quality-assurance analysts; overseeing the end-to-end development lifecycle across multiple concurrent products.  This role exists to turn business-prioritized work into well-planned, high-quality, tested releases, while empowering an experienced team to own their craft, their development processes, and Flynn’s technical-debt posture. Success is measured by the business value your team delivers and by a team that is performing, continually upskilling, and trusted to make decisions.  You will partner closely with our Business Analysis team, who own analysis and product-owner responsibilities and hand over business-prioritized work. Your focus is delivery: organizing that work with your senior developers, balancing it against the technical priorities your team surfaces, and driving it through to release. You will make the call on the minimal viable release, and once a decision is made to build something, you commit to it and put the right guardrails in place.  You’ll need to zoom in on detailed technical questions with your developers and zoom back out to build the tactics that deliver on our overall strategy. You will keep quality assurance independent in how it plans and reports its outcomes, so that testing is never influenced by the development team.   Responsibilities Delivery Management  Own sprint planning and execution across the application portfolio, with your senior developers driving planning sessions and advocating for what goes into each release.