Supervisor, Application Development

The Application Development Supervisor plays a critical role in the planning, development, and evaluation of application systems, ensuring alignment with business objectives and continuous improvement in application performance. This role involves overseeing the technical development team, providing guidance on system design, development, coding practices, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software solutions. Additionally, the supervisor will lead efforts in troubleshooting, issue resolution, and process optimization to ensure the efficient operation of Seaspan’s business-critical applications.

Note: This position qualifies for an optional hybrid work schedule after 90 days of onsite work and onboarding. Employee will be subject to the terms of the Flexible Work Policy Agreement.

What you'll do

• Oversee a team of application developers, ensuring the design, coding, testing, and deployments are executed according to best practices and technical standards. 

• Lead the development of new functionality, enhancements, and application integrations using technologies such as C#, .NET Core., Python, JavaScript, and SQL.

• Proactively identify, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues in enterprise systems with a focus on root cause analysis. 

• Collaborate with internal teams and vendors to resolve recurring application issues, integration errors, and ensure overall system stability.

• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to the development team to foster their growth in programming skills, software design, and quality assurance practices. 

• Create an environment that promotes collaboration, professional growth, and high-performance delivery.

• Maintain strong relationships with stakeholders to ensure their needs are met efficiently and effectively.

• Lead the development and execution of test strategies for new application features, working closely with the QA team to ensure high-quality code and functionality. Coordinate resources for testing activities, prepare test completion metrics, and oversee the execution of test scripts to ensure software meets functional requirements.

• Champion process improvement initiatives, utilizing technical expertise to advocate for and implement changes that improve system performance, scalability, and maintainability. Coordinate resource assignments across both support and project activities to ensure alignment with business goals.

• Lead large-scale development projects, ensuring that new features, updates, or integrations are completed on time, within scope, and with minimal disruption to production environments. 

• Work with project managers to facilitate smooth transitions of projects into operations.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field, or completion of a Post-secondary Diploma in Computer Science. 

• Minimum 5 years of experience in development role, with a strong focus on system design, troubleshooting, and development. 

• At least 3 years of experience in a supervisory or team lead capacity, with demonstrated leadership in guiding and mentoring development teams. 

• Strong hands-on experience with programming languages such as C#, Python, JavaScript, .NET Core and SQL. Experience in Azure is an asset. 

• Proficient in working with relational databases like SQL Server and Oracle, including writing complex queries and managing database integrations. 

• Experience with enterprise-level systems and application interfaces. 

• Experience in QA methodologies, test strategies, and defect management.

• Natural leader with ability to foster a team-oriented workplace, where employees work safely and productively together.

• Self-starter with a talent for inspiring and developing others into high performers through sharing wisdom, knowledge and experience, coaching, and mentorship.

• Ability to lead a technical team through a process and systems change.

• Passion for service excellence and business enablement with ability to deliver work products that provide measurable business benefit.

• Technical knowledge of programming languages and relational databases, such as .Net, Java, C#, SharePoint, Oracle and SQL Server

• Communication, prioritization, problem solving, decision making, and delegation abilities.

   

Why you'll love working here

• This is a full-time, permanent position. With multiple operations and long-term projects, Seaspan employees enjoy job stability as we look ahead to build ships for decades to come. 
• In addition to an annual bonus and pension plan matching, this role provides you with a very competitive salary in line with the successful candidate’s experience.  
• We also provide the best-in-class health and wellness benefits package for this position, including things such as extended health care (i.e. paramedical services for massage therapy,  speech therapy, mental health coverage, physiotherapy, and more), dental care, vision care, life insurance, medical leave coverage, parental leave coverage, childcare benefit partnership, $500 personal spending account, and an Employee Family Assistance Program (EFAP). 
• Access to Pemberton campus gym
• Parking is included and to assist those that are using transit, we operate a complimentary shuttle bus Monday through Friday with various pick up and drop off points around North Vancouver. 

The estimated salary for this position is $112,500 - $137,500. In determining final salary, Seaspan considers many factors including the successful Candidate’s skills and experience as well as position location and internal equity. The final base salary offer will be at the Company’s sole discretion and presented as part of a competitive total compensation package.

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Seaspan Shipyards is one of North America’s most modern shipyards and unique in its ability to provide a complete range of services including new construction, conversion, refit, repair and life-cycle maintenance work for Canada’s Coast Guard and Navy as well as commercial vessels including cruise-ships and deep-sea vessels. Seaspan Shipyards operations include Vancouver Shipyards, Vancouver Drydock and Victoria Shipyards.  

To learn more, visit our website: www.seaspan.com  

This position may involve defense articles and/or technical data regulated by the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (“ITAR”) and the U.S. Arms Export Control Act. In compliance with ITAR, the successful candidate will be subject to a security clearance through the Canadian Controlled Goods Program as regulated by the Controlled Goods Regulations and Defense Production Act. The successful candidate will be required to maintain their security clearance throughout their employment in this position.

Seaspan is committed to Employment Equity, supports diversity in the workplace, and encourages applications from all qualified individuals including, women, members of visible minorities, Indigenous persons, and persons with disabilities. If you require any accommodations at any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at recruit@seaspan.com for confidential support. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible environment.