Title:  Director, Portfolio Management (Cloud)

Requisition ID: 253501 

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

The Role:

The Director of Cloud and Application Security Engineering leads the strategic delivery and operational support of the bank’s cloud security and application security platforms, ensuring alignment with long-term business objectives, regulatory mandates, and enterprise architecture standards. This role is accountable for championing engineering best practices that drive innovation, resilience, and scalability across the organisation’s cloud and application security ecosystem. 

In this role, the Director will empower a cross-functional technology team to deliver cutting edge cloud and application security solutions, guiding them in the execution and delivery of the enterprise Cloud and Application Security product strategy. This involves setting clear objectives, providing mentorship, and ensuring that platform engineering initiatives align with the broader strategic goals of the organization. 

The Director facilitates collaboration across different departments with the aim of making strategic platform engineering decisions. This cross-functional approach ensures that security solutions are embedded into the bank’s development and operational workflows. 

Outstanding verbal and written communication skills are essential for this role. The Director must be able to distill and convey complex technical information to executive management, including details related to risks, resource utilization, and the impact on project roadmaps. Effective communication ensures alignment among stakeholders and supports informed decision-making. 

It is imperative that all activities undertaken in this role comply with applicable governing regulations, as well as internal policies and procedures. The Senior Manager is responsible for ensuring that the team’s work adheres to these standards, thereby supporting the bank’s commitment to operational integrity and regulatory compliance. 

What will you do?

• Design, implement and integrate enterprise security platforms for the bank’s on-prem and Cloud environments. 

• Manage resource allocation, estimation for new initiatives, assessment of incoming work, development and maintenance of a roadmap for the team. 

• Deliver projects to remediate IT Risk, Internal Audit and Regulatory (including OSFI) associated with security platforms. 

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers providing guidance, mentorship, and support. 

• Mentor and facilitate the team’s platform implementation and project deliverables, including communicating clearly to stakeholders, define critical chain of events to execute a project successfully, identify risks and collaborate across functions to remove roadblocks. 

• Work closely with other department directors to facilitate cross-department strategic decisions and work with leaders in defining and building executive communication.

• Closely collaborate with Product, Architecture and operations teams to ensure alignment and effective implementation of the bank’s enterprise security strategy. 

• Build and maintain stakeholder buy-in and relationships across Security and IT business line teams.  

• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions. 

• Actively pursue effective and efficient operations of their 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.  

• Champion a high-performance environment using a coaching mindset, behaviors and embracing Scotiabank’s values and contributing to an inclusive work environment. 

What do you need to succeed?

• 5+ years’ experience in a leadership role managing large complex technology projects with significant technology and operational components 

• Minimum 10 years of IT and business/industry work experience 

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in Product Engineering and Solution design 

• 3+ years of running and delivering projects more than $5M annually. 

• Champion all development/engineering work effort within the Application Security and Cloud Security domains. 

• Provide remediation governance, ensuring critical product vulnerabilities are addressed within defined SLAs. 

• Deep understanding of compliance frameworks and regulatory requirements. 

• Familiarity with cloud security posture management and workload protection platforms. 

• Strong background in software engineering or DevSecOps. 

• Preferred deep understanding of Banking (preferred Scotiabank) process, procedures and cross-functional engagement. 

• Excellent verbal and written communication, negotiating and interpersonal skills with the ability to summarize material for executives. 

• Performed budgeting, estimations, and resource planning. 

• Excellent people management, coaching and leadership skills and experience. 

• Good understanding of Security and IT service delivery and a solid understanding of mapping stakeholder requirements to results. 

• Experience with and knowledge of project methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile and DevOps in delivering large scale solutions in an enterprise environment. 

• Broad understanding of Information Security and Technology domains with focus on the Financial Industry will be an asset. 

• Experience leading a team responsible for cloud development technologies and tools such as Containers, VMs and Micro services with proven experience with a cloud provider (Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure). 

• Experience working with Internal Audit and Regulatory Assessments (e.g., SOX, OSFI, CDIC, etc.) and addressing compliance gaps. 

• Experience collaborating with various Scotiabank engineering teams such as (but not limited too) Scotia Digital, GTS, IPM and IS&C to foster a common goal and solve complex problems. 

• Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science, Diploma or technical equivalent experience is required. 

• Nice to have (but not required) one or more: CISSP, CCSK or ITIL. 

• Nice to have (but not required) fluency in Spanish 

What's in it for you?

• We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity and curiosity and celebrates success
• We provide you with the tools and technology needed to create meaningful customer experiences
• You'll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world
• We hire you for your talent — not just a job — so you can grow with us. We’ll equip you for success not only in your role, but also in your career as a whole
• Dress codes don't apply here: being comfortable does
• Access to thousands of online and in-person courses so you can hone your current skills, or learn new ones
• A competitive rewards package that includes a base salary, a performance bonus, company matching programs on pension and profit sharing, paid vacation, personal & sick days, medical, vision, and dental and much more

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.