Requisition ID: 196774
Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Team

Transaction Delivery Services (TDS) team is looking for an Agile Mainframe developer who enjoys technology and is comfortable working with both technical and business staff in ensuring business strategies and initiatives are executed / delivered in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures. As part of the development team, the incumbent is responsible for solutioning, maintaining and ensuring efficient use of the existing applications, executing consistency in approaches and optimizing technological synergy within TDS. Application support and pager rotation are also required. The Agile developer needs to work in close liaison with the architects to understand the end to end flow of the systems, design and develop complex components according to enterprise architectural standards and leverage various tools and technologies to provide customer focused, sustainable solutions that aligned to specific business needs. The developer will communicate to ensure technology teams and business areas understand all the options and technology choices in support of their business.

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

• Support applications (including complex application systems), evaluate problems, identify actions to be taken and recommend/implement solutions. Understand and work in accordance with Bank application architectural guidelines.

• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.

• Interact with business clients to help resolve and explain system questions and issues.

• Work closely with all team members in an agile lab and agile environment.?

• Work standard and additional overtime hours to meet project deadlines and pager support.

• Provide analysis and coding support for host applications and infrastructure implementations.

• Must be fluent in English, oral and written, with excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills to understand, document and share key system information with their colleagues, support groups, other technical staff, business partners and management.

• Takes accountability for results and exhibits a "can do attitude".

• Self-starter with a desire to learn and contribute.

• Has an appetite to continuously evolve and improve, to tackle difficult problems and seek/give constant feedback.

• Embraces change and sees it as an essential driver to solve complex issues.

• Demonstrates flexibility and can move forward without having all the answers.

• Consistently seeks to understand, meet, and deliver on customers' expectations.

• Act as a mentor to junior developers on design, development, delivery, operations, and overall development best practices within the bank and industry.

• Requires to be on pager rotation for 24x7 application support

• Understand how the Bank's risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.

• Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:

• 8+ years of experience in mainframe development complex programs using Cobol, JCL, IMS DB/DC, DB2, VSAM, CA7, CICS, SAS, Netron

• Experience with Security and environment control systems (Endevor, ACF2), Problem Management (ABENDAID), Database Management (e.g. IMS, DB2, VSAM)

• Experience working in an agile environment / methodology / deployment (e.g. GIT, DevOps pipeline, JIRA, Confluence)

• Experience in IDEs e.g. Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA

• Experience in Utilities and productivity tools (e.g. MVS/TSO, ACR, COMPAREX, SYNCSORT, IDCAMS, CRF, File Manager and etc.) an asset

• Experience and knowledge of Assembly programming language an asset.

• Experience and knowledge of web services and APIs an asset

• Experience and knowledge of web and cloud (GCP, Azure) technologies an asset

• Prior experience in level 1 production support an asset

• Fluent in English, oral and written

• Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or technical equivalent

What's in it for you?

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.

• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.

• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.

• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.

• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, cooking with friends, Humans of Digital and much more!

Work arrangements: Hybrid

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Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto
Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.
At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.