Requisition ID: 228518
Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Purpose

This role is crucial for overseeing the development and support of our IB digital banking platforms, including onboarding and servicing capabilities across the international footprint.

• They own the platforms that handle value proposition discovery, growth, client onboarding, product onboarding and fulfilment, day-to-day banking, servicing, advisory, and payment needs across mobile and web technologies, including omni-channel capabilities extending to branches, remote branches and digitally assisted models, and underlaying process orchestration.
• This position requires a leader who can drive platform engineering practices, instill an Agile and DevOps mindset, and champion site reliability engineering and platforms security.
• They will lead engineering teams and play a pivotal role in co-leading solution design, together with Architecture and Business partners, ensuring solutions enable the client-centric value proposition and scalable operating model transformation of International Banking, to ensure that the strategy becomes reality.
• This role requires a leader who can balance technical excellence with strategic insight, co-leading solution design and fostering a culture of innovation

Accountabilities

Engineering Leadership:

• Lead and manage a senior team of Directors and Senior Managers focused on building and evolving client banking platforms for diverse client segments.
• Foster an Agile, DevOps and SRE culture across teams, emphasizing continuous discovery and delivery, and Day 2 maturity.
• Drive platform engineering practices and deep technical skills, ensuring scalability, security, and performance are synergistic with accelerated value delivery.

Platform Ownership and Strategy:

• Own and evolve global platforms that meet the day-to-day banking, servicing, and payment needs of diverse client segments, with a focus on platform capabilities.
• Align platform strategies with business goals, enhancing client experience and operational efficiency, leading with innovation.
• Lead efforts to enhance platform-driven business capabilities through collaborative, cross-functional teamwork, cutting-edge technologies and modern practices.

Solution Delivery:

• Co-lead the design of solutions with in-Country Engineering Heads, through a platform lens. Develop cloud-native and scalable capabilities aligned with business and client needs.
• Oversee the end-to-end delivery of global solutions and initiatives within the portfolio, to deliver high-quality technology products while maximizing client and business value.
• Ensure seamless operation of mobile, web, API, event and orchestration platforms, including high performance, stability and reliability.

People Leadership:

• Lead and coach a high performing, engaged, and diverse team
• Promote a value-flow aligned, agile work environment focused on delivering client value.
• To develop a high performing and healthy organization, foster a generative culture of innovation, collaboration, continuous learning and psychological safety across multi-disciplinary teams in their sphere of influence.
• Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

Enterprise Behaviors:

• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Understand how the Bank's risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank's Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or other related field, OR equivalent work experience.
• Bilingual, with English and Spanish proficiency.
• Prior experience and deep knowledge within the technology domain is a must (e.g., software engineering, IT & Digital strategy, enterprise architecture, complex technology delivery, IT innovation)
• Prior experience and deep knowledge within the banking domain are strongly preferred (cash management)
• 10+ years of experience in any of Software Engineering Leadership, IT Solution Design and Delivery or Software Architecture is required.
• 5+ years of experience leading Software Engineering leaders and complex technology initiatives is preferred.
• Knowledge and experience in modern technologies highly preferred, such as cloud platforms, microservices, mobile and web architectures, DevSecOps, and modern data platforms.
• Strong expertise in agile practices, cloud technologies and cross-functional team leadership preferred.
• Ability to deliver results in a fast-paced, challenging, and dynamic business environment.
• Superior interpersonal skills, leadership, and influential capabilities.
• Self-motivated; work both independently and collaboratively with multi-functional teams, as both a leader and member.
• Exceptional planning and analytical skills, ability to discern research information / data and focus on the critical business issues.
• Exceptional presentation and written communication skills.

What's In It for You

• You'll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world.
• We foster an environment of innovation and continuous learning. We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success!
• We provide employees with an environment that is safe, inclusive, and reflective of all communities by promoting fair and equitable treatment and prioritizing unconscious bias and anti-racism training.
• We care about our people, allowing them to design how they work to deliver amazing results.
• We offer a competitive total rewards package, including a performance bonus, company matching programs (pension & Employee Share Ownership), generous vacation; health/medical/wellness benefits; employee banking privileges.
• Predominant work from home team culture, with ad hoc in person (once post Covid permits).
• When in person collaboration is required, you can take advantage of our new state of the art ecosystems with a design focus on enabling collaboration through both environment and technology.

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.