Requisition ID: 274016
Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.
Scotiabank continues to be an industry leader for Payment’s technology and innovation. We have a history of safely leveraging new tools to enable new experiences for our customers, focusing on ensuring we protect their interests and goals. The result of this leads to modernization programs which aim to offer enriched information and transparencies to support the rapidly evolving payments community.
The role:
We are building the next generation of real-time, programmable payment rails and are looking for an experienced Engineering Lead to join our team. You will be joining a team as a champion of value-driven delivery and enable the team to execute against its priorities in a fast paced environment. You will gain exposure to the latest technology trends, unlock new capabilities for the bank while having opportunities to coach and mentor a high performing team.
The Engineering Lead will work closely with business, technology, risk, and operations stakeholders to ensure digital currency capabilities are delivered in alignment with enterprise governance, control frameworks, and quality standards.
What will you do?
- Ensure timely and successful delivery of project milestones while following the software delivery standards at the bank
- Prepare roadmaps that align various cross team dependencies and stakeholders
- Identify risks and implement remediation activities to help the team stay on track
- Lead technical discussions, influence design and strategy decisions
- Bring industry best practices and knowledge to the team on emerging topics like crypto currency, blockchain, distributed ledger technology
- Contribute to proof-of-concepts, pilots, and controlled production releases.
- Coach and mentor team members, creating a self-organizing and outcome focused team
- Communicate with stakeholders across different business lines, prepare executive communications and project updates
- Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions
What do you need to succeed?
Mandatory
- Minimum 5 years of experience as an Engineering Lead or similar role
- Hands on experience delivering complex technology projects including components of the design, build, test and implementation phases
- Experience with API driven, microservice architecture
- Experience managing vendor supported technology solutions
- Ability to learn new and emerging technologies
- Experience coaching and mentoring high performing teams
- Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders including technology, risk, compliance, and operations.
- Experience operating within structured SDLC and change management frameworks in regulated environments.
Nice to Have:
- Exposure to digital assets, blockchain technologies, smart contracts, tokenized payment concepts.
- Experience supporting initiatives subject to enhanced governance or regulatory oversight.
What's in it for you?
- We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity and curiosity and celebrates success
- We provide you with the tools and technology needed to create meaningful customer experiences
- You'll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world
- We hire you for your talent — not just a job — so you can grow with us. We’ll equip you for success not only in your role, but also in your career as a whole
- Dress codes don't apply here: being comfortable does
- Access to thousands of online and in-person courses so you can hone your current skills, or learn new ones
- A competitive rewards package that includes a base salary, a performance bonus, company matching programs on pension and profit sharing, paid vacation, personal & sick days, medical, vision, and dental and much more
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.