Title:  Engineering Lead

Requisition ID: 220127

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

The Team

 
Scotiabank continues to be an industry leader for Payments 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. This position requires a leader to manage development teams, technical deliverables, and stakeholder relationships; however the incumbent must be well rounded to express empathy to ensure we lead with a mindset to understand and drive value for our customers. 
 

Is this role right for you?

• Be at the forefront of technology and enable your team to be a highly functioning technology power house that enables transformation.
• Actively partners internally with other Engineering Leads and Scrum Masters to ensure logistics, scope, and delivery are shared, with successes and lessons learned appropriately integrated.
• Defines success metrics at the portfolio, application, and team levels by leveraging agile practices.
• Responsible for implementation of strategy including high level planning of work and people across multi-year timeframe, with clear milestone value deliveries.
• Identifies and manages risks versus opportunities and articulates how that impacts value and goals against the portfolio
• Drives external partnerships with key stakeholders (business, technology, finance, security, risk, and more)
• Serves as a steward of team culture, environment, and engineering practices
• Comfortable to both encourage and challenge others to align behaviours towards our mindset
• Influence, question, and evaluate processes to determine opportunities for effectiveness
• Embrace and initiate change for continuous improvement
• Provides thought leadership, innovative ideas, and drives toward partnership at the table for program strategy

 
Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role?

• Desire and drive for innovation through problem solving, leveraging resourcefulness as a key skill; have a learning mindset while intrinsically motivated to learning new tools and techniques
• Experience leading and motivating teams – this will be a mix of direct reports, peers, and key partners to enable successful outcomes; command presence, and be able to influence others
• Technical understanding – as an Engineering Lead there will be expectations that you are able to lead technical discussions, challenge design and strategy (examples: cloud platforms, microservices, data transformation, process and quality automation)
• Comfortable with continuously changing environments (examples: business priorities, new technologies)
• Exhibit a high degree of understanding risk management; passion for your craft should also lead to expectations in quality, what is best in the interest of progress, and ability to communicate decisions and value in justification
• Leverage and understand the use of analytics to enable day-to-day conversations and decision making

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. 
• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community egagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons and much more!

Work conditions: Hybrid

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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.