Requisition ID: 205153
Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Purpose

Leads and oversees the engineering team developing the XVA platform. The incumbent is responsible for ensuring business strategies, plans and initiatives are executed and delivered in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

Accountabilities

• Leads and drives a customer focused culture throughout their team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Leads and drives development of the global XVA platform. The incumbent facilitates the setting of priorities and driving delivery through a team of engineers located in Canada and Colombia.
• Keeps bank safe. Maintains and updates XVA platform technology stacks to continue providing competitive advantage to the business as well as keep bank compliance with software currency.
• Understands how the Bank's risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Creates an environment in which his/her team pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her 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.
• Builds a high performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment and using a coaching mindset and behaviors; communicating vison/values/business strategy; and, managing succession and development planning for the team.

Dimensions

• A total team size of 6
• All countries and regions across GBM supported, and all asset classes. The XVA platform is a common platform that supports all product lines and geographies.
• Financial dimensions (e.g., capital budget, annual project cost, operating budget, etc.)
• Key Projects:
  • XVA Expansion
  • Derivatives Platform Modernization
  • Distributed Analytics Service
• Key systems
  • XVA
  • Regulatory bodies and special requirements.

Skills and Experience

• 10+ years of experience in building applications using Java, Spring, SQL and Caching, with expert engineering knowledge and experience of complex systems design.
• 5+ years experience in Elastic Search, Kafka, Docker or similar container and orchestration platform, familiar with web application development concepts.
• Expect knowledge of cloud technologies, designed complex systems on public cloud infrastructure like Azure or GCP.
• Expert knowledge of data models and analytics, with strong understanding of SQL concepts, database design and modeling, performance analysis and optimizations.
• Strong understanding of system security concepts and tools.
• Familiar with Linux commands and general troubleshooting in a Linux environment
  Familiar with DevOps automation tools like ansible, puppet etc.
• Solid leadership skills with excellent collaboration skills, ability to negotiate and build rapport with senior stakeholders with multiple agendas.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Author project plans for epics and drive agile project management processes.
• Good brokering skills. Achieve consensus amongst stakeholders and collaborate effectively with others.
• Manage a team of engineers and help our engineers grow their skills and experience.
• Provide guidance and coaching to team members on technical contributions, product architecture, and other areas.
• Hold regular 1:1s with all members of their team and give regular and clear feedback around the individual's performance.
• Foster technical decision making on the team but make final decisions when necessary
  Draft quarterly OKRs and Engineering KPIs.
• Constantly work towards improving product quality, security, and performance
  Identify inefficiencies in process and generate and implement process improvements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Share Scotiabank's values, and work in accordance with those values. Build teams that excel through our values.

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 everyone 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.
• Remote-friendly work environment will provide you with the flexibility to perform at your best.
• 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!

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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.