Title:  Director, Development

Requisition ID: 241304

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

Director, Development, Global Wealth Engineering

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

• Take ownership of end-to-end delivery of complex transformational programs in the advisor engineering space.
• Align on a multi year business technology roadmap with all the relevant stakeholders.
• Demonstrate strong hands on experience in delivery of multi year business value driven programs
• Provide thought leadership in selecting next-generation technologies and architecture components as per the latest trends and Scotiabank standards, frameworks, and best practices.
• Promote a client-first mindset across the enterprise to enable Scotiabank to become a stronger organization
• Identify, monitor, and mitigate cross-project or cross-program dependencies while managing relationships, anticipating/mitigating risks, facilitating communications, and leading projects in an agile fashion.
• Engage sponsoring executives and project team members, establishing trusted partnerships to ensure deliveries within scope, budget, and timelines while effectively communicating and discussing analytic insights with senior stakeholders.
• Balance collaboration and consensus with the ability to assert project management discipline where required, while being a seasoned practitioner in leading project teams through fast and complex projects.
• Work in an agile manner to deliver business value iteratively
• Lead a team of 50+, including business systems analysts, developers and delivery leads.
• Excel in relationship, stakeholder management, influencing, and negotiation skills, effective at all levels up to senior executives.
• Efficiently perform management tasks including incident response and escalations, vendor and contract management, infrastructure management, service resiliency, and service ownership.
• Enjoy the challenges of working on different types of projects (from large complex to simple).
• Collaborate with various business functions to ensure Wealth Technology meets business needs.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:

•  Minimum 10+ years in a leading technology delivery
• Hands on experience in leading end to end complex programs.
• Track record of hiring and managing high performing engineering teams.
• Hands-on technical leadership in defining complex technology solutions with internal teams and vendor teams
• Expertise in Wealth business and technology, particularly on Advisor applications.
• Experience with leading development teams focussed on API development and ETL development
• Well versed in leading complex migrations and modernizing end-to-end technology stack to deliver business value
• Strong people management and analytical abilities to help drive multi million dollars of roadmap to fruition.
• Experience in owning and managing technology vendors (vendor products and staff augmentation/managed services)

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 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.
• Dynamic Ecosystem - Free tea & coffee, universal washrooms, and lots of space for team collaboration.
• Community Engagement - No matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons.

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.