Director, Technical Solutions

Director, Technical Solutions (Contact Center Operations and COE) Permanent Full Time Responsibilities Lead Contact Center Operations across multiple lines of business, ensuring seamless service delivery and operational efficiency. Lead the Contact Center CoE, defining best practices, governance, and continuous improvement frameworks. Manage vendor relationships and ensure compliance with Canadian and global standards. Promote a high-performance culture and coach teams to embrace innovation and agility. Identify opportunities for process optimization and cost efficiency while maintaining service quality. Drive risk management and regulatory compliance across all contact center operations. Identify and drive automation and improvement opportunities in non‑AI and AI foundations across omnichannel and collaborate with workforce management. Drive automation and engineering improvements that will accelerate delivery, increase quality, and reduce maintenance and change fail rates. Help prioritize, streamline and strategize incident management process and enhancement requests. Ensure incident closure rate along with availability, uptime and other KPI commitment. Enable the right overall outcome quality, not just quantity. Create a problem‑solving ecosystem to foster creativity. Cross‑collaborate and communicate to enable the need of the hour and keep teams focused. Build strong and trusted relationships with internal and external partners; manage risk and compliance in accordance with Canadian and global standards. Ensure alignment/adherence to enterprise technology, vendor management and risk standards. Focus on continuous learning and professional development. Drive an agile mindset within the team that measures progress over perfection. Hold yourself and your team accountable to contribute to the overall modernization of the organization. Qualifications Post‑secondary education in Engineering, Technology, or equivalent experience. Proven experience in contact center leadership, operations management, and transformation. Strong understanding of AI technologies, automation and analytics in customer service environments. Experience in building and leading Centers of Excellence or similar governance structures. Ability to develop and maintain collaborative relationships across business and technology teams. Strong communication, strategic thinking and problem‑solving skills. Experience with omnichannel platforms, workforce management and customer 360. Familiarity with Agile methodologies and continuous improvement frameworks. Growth mindset with ability to pivot in response to changing priorities and embrace experimentation. Experience coaching and mentoring technical practitioners. Strong communication, collaboration and relationship building skills. Delivery leadership experience with engineering teams and ability to lead, motivate and drive performance. Architectural acumen with distributed systems and willingness to get hands‑on to understand products. Demonstrated experience with both Agile and traditional project management approaches. Experience in financial services or regulated industries. Hands‑on experience implementing AI‑driven solutions in contact centers. Expertise in customer experience design and operational excellence. Experience managing large‑scale operations and COE and distributed teams. Experience in Amazon Connect and SF is key. Experience in Contact Center is a must. Experience working in financial services industry an asset. Experience in stakeholder communication and management. Experience leading distributed teams including offshore delivery models is an asset. Experience in cloud technologies and next‑gen automation. The base salary for this position is between $92,100.00 - $170,500.00 annually. This represents base salary only and does not include other variable compensation components of our total compensation (i.e., annual bonus, commission, etc.). If you are selected to move forward in our recruitment process, your recruiter will discuss additional details of our total rewards program with you. Career opportunities will be open a minimum of 5 business days from the date of posting; closing dates will vary depending on the search activity. All applications received will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we live, and to creating an environment where every employee has the opportunity to reach their potential. It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. 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