Title:  Director of Engineering - Digital Microservices

Requisition ID: 257616 

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

The Director of Engineering, Microservices is responsible for the engineering execution, delivery, and operational excellence of the Bank’s microservices platforms, which support both digital channels (web and mobile) and non-digital channels across the Canadian Bank.

This role ensures that shared and domain microservices are scalable, resilient, performant, and secure, enabling consistent and reliable experiences across multiple channels and lines of business. The Director partners closely with Business, Product, Architecture, Digital Channels, and Operations to deliver reusable services that accelerate time to market while maintaining high standards for reliability, resilience, and risk management. Reporting to the Head and/or VP, this role plays a critical part in translating platform strategy into execution at scale.

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

• Be accountable for the engineering delivery and operational health of the microservices platforms that serve digital (web and mobile) and non-digital channels, aligning delivery outcomes with business, client, and risk objectives.
• Lead and evolve a scalable, service-oriented architecture, enabling reusable, domain-aligned microservices that support multiple channels and lines of business.
• Partner with Digital Channel, Business, and Product Leads, as well as enablement teams such as Client Experience and Operations, to deliver robust, high-performing services that support consistent and seamless Client journeys.
• Execute on the microservices and platform roadmap, ensuring clear translation from strategy to implementation, with strong feedback loops between engineering, architecture, and consuming teams.
• Lead and manage end-to-end delivery of microservices initiatives, including planning, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing production support.
• Champion API-first and contract-driven development, ensuring reliability, backward compatibility, and ease of consumption across digital and non-digital consumers.
• Promote a resiliency-minded and SRE-aligned engineering culture, embedding availability, scalability, fault tolerance, and graceful degradation into microservice design.
• Partner with SRE, Platform, and Infrastructure teams to ensure service observability, including monitoring, alerting, SLIs/SLOs, and proactive issue detection.
• Ensure operational readiness and production ownership for all services, including incident response, root cause analysis, and prevention of recurring issues.
• Drive engineering excellence through best practices in coding standards, architecture, DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and test strategies.
• Balance new capability delivery with platform sustainability, addressing technical debt, service sprawl, and performance bottlenecks.
• Direct day-to-day activities in a manner consistent with the Bank’s risk culture, risk appetite statement, and technology control standards, communicating expectations clearly across teams.
• Create an environment in which teams operate efficiently and responsibly, ensuring adherence to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk, and conduct risk requirements.

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

• University degree in Computer Engineering, Applied Science, Technology, or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with a strong focus on microservices and distributed systems
• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience managing engineering teams and platforms at scale
• Proven experience delivering high-traffic, high-availability services consumed by multiple channels
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture patterns, API management, and service lifecycle management
• Experience with cloud environments and container-based platforms
• Working knowledge of SRE concepts, including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and incident management
• Experience supporting both digital and non-digital consumers of shared services
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills
• Ability to thrive in a regulated, risk-aware enterprise environment

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.

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.