Title:  Software Engineer Specialist

Requisition ID: 250952

Thanks for your interest in ScotiaTech, Scotiabank's new and innovative Technology hub in Bogota.

Join a purpose driven winning team that promotes creativity and innovation in a fast-paced environment, where we’re always committed to results, in an inclusive, diverse, and high-performing culture.

 

Purpose

The Caribbean Insurance Technology team primary role is to maintain and develop Financial Insurance Applications to support businesses across the Caribbean.

Accountabilities

• Must have a good understanding of business systems development and business analysis, with the ability to support key development and back up as business analyst as required.
• Must have good analytical, problem solving and trouble shooting skills to develop and support systems to meet user requirements. The incumbent must be creative and flexible in identifying technical solutions to resolve business problems in a rapidly changing, demanding and complex business environment. The incumbent must have a detailed understanding of the application systems he/she is responsible for. The incumbent must have good interpersonal and communication skills to deliver proposals, provide user support and interact with team members and other departments.
• A broad understanding and knowledge of the banking products, services, market trends, business lending, computer services, planning and control tools and organized structure.
• Be guided by Bank policy and receives general direction from the Technical Lead, Manager, Project Manager for the projects assigned. The incumbent is expected to function independently to ensure that the assigned tasks and project objectives are met.
• Work with the agile team to support the Product Owner in refining the product backlog and prioritizing business value and work independently/autonomously within the parameters agreed upon by the development team.
• You will own your solution, ensure full integration and minimize the impact of technical debt. Where issues are encountered, problem resolution is to be first discussed among the team. If required, proper escalation channels will be used.
• You will play a leadership role within the team, creating a positive work environment through coaching and encouragement in addition to providing their technical experience and advice with the rest of the team.
• Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role?

Reporting Relationships 

Primary Manager:   Sr. Manager Development
Direct Reports:    N/A

Experience and Skills

• 1-3 years of IT experience, with a minimum of 2 or more years advanced technical work experience
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Programming languages: Cobol and SQL.
• Cobol, DB2, C#.NET knowledge would be an asset
• Insurance and Banking Reconciliation Knowledge would be an asset
• Familiar with AIX Shell Script and Jobs scheduling tools.
• Application Servers: WAS
• RDMS like MS SQL Server, Oracle or DB2.
• Understand Web Computing/System design
• Understand Service Oriented architecture, Cloud computing, Microservices
• Networking, communications & online processing
• Development techniques, such as debugging, testing, coding, use of productivity tools
•  Manage source repository (CIAD / Azure Pipeline / Urban Code)
• Software packages used by the division (Office 365, Microsoft Office, Project, Visio, JIRA, Confluence)

Working Conditions

• Work in a standard office-based environment; non-standard hours are a common occurrence. 
• We are technology partners who help the business transform how our employees around the world work
• We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success!
• 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 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 (on pension & profit sharing), and generous vacatio

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.