Title:  Automation Engineer-Cash Management Technology

Requisition ID: 267487 

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

Contributes to the overall success of the Global Payments Technology in Canada and globally ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives.  Ensure all activities conducted are following governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

What You’ll Do:

• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.
• Develop automation testing scripts that meet the needs of stakeholders while focusing on continually reducing technical debt
• Document and test new software applications
• Research, investigate and fix a wide range of technical issues
• Collaborate with cross functional team on the components to meet the performance
• requirements.
• Collaborates to provide estimation and break down of work to enable small and frequent releases to production.
• Actively participates in customer discovery and solution discovery sessions.
• Participates in developing, testing, debugging, reviewing, merging, integrating, versioning, promoting, code through environments and version control.
• 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.

What You'll Bring:

• A recognized degree in engineering, computer science, math, related discipline or relevant experience

• 2+ years of software development experience

• Have experience in systems design and a solid understanding of development, quality assurance and integration methodologies.

• Ability to communicate effectively with a software development team on tight deadlines

• Experience in JAVA related technologies and frameworks (Spring/Springboot Framework, J2EE, and JUnit)

• Familiar with open-source CI/CD tools (Bitbucket/GIT, Jenkins, Artifactory, Gradle, Docker and Kubernetes)

• Solid understanding of Test Automation framework and tools (Cucumber, and Citrus)

Why This Role Is for You

• You want to lead a large-scale modernization program that is transforming how payments are executed in Canada.
• You’re motivated by solving complex, real-world problems in a highly visible and mission-critical environment.
• You bring a strong technical mindset, but prefer to lead, guide, and enable teams rather than focus solely on hands-on development.
• You thrive in environments that require both structure and adaptability, where priorities evolve and thoughtful decision-making is key.
• You value impact, ownership, and continuous growth, and want to play a key role in shaping the future of payments technology.

What's in it for you?

• You’ll join a team focused on building cloud platforms as products, enabling delivery teams across the enterprise rather than acting as a centralized gatekeeper or operating within a narrow delivery focus. This role offers exposure to a wide range of technologies, problem domains, and stakeholders.

• 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 each individual 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.
• 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.

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.