Title:  Software Engineer Associate

Requisition ID: 220156  
 

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Purpose

Contributes to the overall success of the  GWRT - Business Support & Engineering - Bogota in Columbia ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives.  Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

Accountabilities

• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Deliver code development, unit testing, UAT support, implementation, and operational support. This role requires out of office hours support.
• Interact with business clients to help resolve and explain system questions and issues.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• Champions a high performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.
• 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. 
• 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.
• Embraces change and sees it as an essential driver to solve complex issues.
• Collaborate with Business, DevOps and security teams for seamless IT operations.
• Implement automation tools to streamline IT operations and respond to technical support requests – Level2/3 Support.
• 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.
• Understanding of security best practices and compliance standards.

Reporting Relationships

Dimensions

• MET group (Mark Teper’s) has appx 1144 employees

• Financial dimensions -FTE – proposed Annual range $96,000,000 COP - $120,000,000 COP
• MET suite of applications

• Enterprise Compliance standards adherence is mandatory.

Education / Experience / Other Information

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Demonstrate good communication skills.
• 2-3 years of technical working experience in systems analysis, design, development, unit testing, and debugging.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to review and design documents and create technical stories and tasks.
• Must have technical working experience with .NET/TFS/C#/API.
• Must be a system integration expert -i.e developing/maintaining services and components , external-internal API,s file transfers
• Proficient in SQL & relational databases.
• You have working experience in the use of Bit Bucket, GIT, Gradle, Jira, Confluence, or similar tool(s) for building Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Technical working experience in an agile environment.
• Technical working knowledge of Web Services, XML/SOAP/REST Tools, or Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
• Nice to have - Knowledge of SSL and setup of secure handshake between applications.
• Nice to have - Working knowledge of SoapUI; Postman, WinSCP (Windows Secure Copy); PuTTY SCP (PSCP)
• Nice to have - Technical knowledge of Microsoft Azure Cloud or Google Cloud is an asset.
• Participate fully as a team member and contribute to a positive work environment that encourages productivity, professionalism, and teamwork.
• Contributes to an environment of continuous learning, including the sharing of experience and learning across team members, peers, Scotia partners, and management as appropriate.
• Participate in identifying personal development needs and pursue development/career opportunities.
• Adhere to established guidelines of conduct. 

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Experience with Continuous Development or Continuous Integration is a plus
• Knowledge of distributed system design patterns like distributed configuration, service discovery, routing, service-to-service calls, circuit breakers
• Development experience in JavaScript(ES6+), React/Redux, ExpressJS and Jest/Mocha
• Knowledge of Apache/Confluence Kafka, Kafka topics, brokers, stream processing and event streaming platforms
• Experience in batch process development/support using shell script in Unix/Linux

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with technical leads to build application as per design document.
• Create design documents into technical stories and technical tasks.
• Review and understand defect and make code changes to enhance the application.
• Compile and Deploy application to various environments.
• You will provide system analysis, object-oriented design / programming, technical documentation, and support for existing and new applications and systems.
• You will perform coding, unit testing, debugging, documenting, and implementing of applications and scripts.
• You will maintain, support, and enhance existing applications.
• You will participate in regular code reviews for release activities.
• You will participate in production issue analysis and perform root cause analysis for production issues and implementation issues.

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Location(s):  Colombia : Bogota : Bogota 

ScotiaTech is a business unit within ScotiaGBS, a Scotiabank Group company located in Bogota, Colombia. The ScotiaTech hub was created to support different technology systems and processes of the Bank. We offer an inclusive, positive work environment, and competitive benefits.

At ScotiaTech, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at ScotiaTech; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.

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