Senior Manager Development

Requisition ID: 252258
Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Business Banking Engineering is seeking a Senior Manager to lead and deliver solutions that power critical Business Banking capabilities. This role focuses on managing a modern and legacy application suite. Lead modernization of legacy capabilities with API-first, cloud-native, loosely coupled services and experiences, integrating internal and third?party platforms.

Reporting to the Director, Business Banking Domain, you will partner with business stakeholders and cross?functional teams across engineering, product, security, data, and infrastructure to deliver production?ready outcomes aligned to enterprise standards for security, resiliency, scalability, availability, and regulatory compliance.

This is a hands-on leadership role: you are expected to understand the business application and its dependent systems, and to lead with strong engineering judgment, crisp prioritization, and disciplined execution.

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

• Drive end-to-end delivery across multiple workstreams, ensuring clarity on scope, dependencies, milestones, and success measures.
• Establish a high?ownership culture with strong engineering fundamentals: clear decision?making, pragmatic trade-offs, and accountable execution.
• Actively remove blockers, manage cross-team dependencies, and keep delivery aligned to roadmap and business priorities.
• Build durable partnerships with business and technology leaders; translate priorities into executable plans.
• Communicate progress, risks, and trade?offs clearly to senior stakeholders; align teams through crisp narratives and data.
• Track, monitor, and drive closure of open items across TRAs, IT RCSAs, audits, compliance reviews, self?identified issues, and other relevant risk reviews.
• Ensure solutions are production-ready: reliability, observability, incident readiness, and operational hygiene appropriate for a Tier?1 bank.
• Champion an innovation mindset: continuously simplify, automate, and improve engineering and delivery workflows.
• Apply AI responsibly to improve speed and quality (e.g., using AI assistants for ideation, documentation, backlog refinement, test acceleration, and engineering productivity), while ensuring outputs are reviewed, validated, and compliant.
• Drive adoption of practical AI/automation use cases that reduce cycle time and rework (e.g., improving how teams identify defects earlier, generate test ideas, and standardize engineering artifacts).
• Promote a learning culture: experimentation with guardrails, measurable outcomes, and knowledge-sharing across the team.

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

• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Customer-first mindset with strong risk awareness; bias for clarity, quality, and execution.
• A builder's mindset: curious, improvement-driven, and comfortable operating in ambiguity while bringing structure to execution.
• 5–10+ years of Business Banking management and/or technology experience, including 5+ years leading large cross?functional teams and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Strong experience with modern technology environments (public/private cloud such as GCP, Azure), modern architecture patterns (e.g., microservices), and how systems integrate across platforms.
• Excellent relationship management, influencing, negotiation, and interpersonal skills; ability to work effectively across all levels and balance competing needs.
• Strong communication and stakeholder skills; able to influence delivery teams and partners through clarity and practical trade?offs.
• Proven ability to develop and execute strategies and deliver strong results in both short- and long-term horizons.
• Experience modernizing platforms or incrementally replacing legacy capabilities with API-first services and cloud-native approaches.( Preferred )
• Experience with process improvement using AI and/or automation. .( Preferred )
• Familiarity with Java, Node.js, and/or Pega Platform (asset). .( Preferred )

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.

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.