Title:  Bilingual (Spanish/English) Lead Architect

Requisition ID: 195740

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

The Position:  

Lead Architect, Payments & Core Banking Engineering (Spanish/English language proficiency) 

The Role

Contributes to the overall success of the Payments & Core Banking Engineering globally ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives.  Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.
 

What will you do?

•  Work closely with Delivery and Engineering teams, Product Owners and technical platform teams to architect, design and develop high quality Banking Platform, APIs and solutions supporting the Commercial Customers
• End-to-end software architecture, design and development of complex distributed cloud based micro-service system.
• Provide expertise to development team working from various locations on system development and systems integration.  This should also extend to providing detailed guidance at the code level to support Engineers delivering code.
• Build and enhancing the infrastructure required to support the platforms in terms of robustness, scalability, availability and efficiency.
• Ability to architect, design and deliver software that can scale elastically across multiple data centers and cloud vendors while staying resilient.
• Understanding of relationship of application/systems and data solution
• Understanding of testing at every stage of development. This includes unit, mutation, use-case, performance, availability (failure injection) and consistency testing
• Ability to communicate with precision while being concise.
• Extensive experience using a systems analysis and design methodology
• Performing research and development to evaluate emerging technologies and their potential to redesign banking, transaction processing and administration platforms.
• Aligning solutions to strategic technical and capability roadmaps and identifying new shared capabilities and business opportunities. 
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions
• Champion a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.          
• Supports global Cash Management with a focus on U.S. 

What do you need to succeed?

• You must be fluent in both Spanish and English (verbal and written) 
• You have 5+ years of experience in IT, with an emphasis on React, Spring Boot, Redis, API and Micro-service development, and proven ability in delivery web-based applications.
• You have hands on experience with the following technologies and platforms (deep technical understanding in several areas is expected)

• REST/SOAP Protocols
• XSLT/JSON Message Mapping and tools
• API & Service Integration development techniques
• Java/React Frameworks and Components (React, Java Spring Boot, Redis etc…)
• Cloud Architecture Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, AWS etc. (Nice to have)
• Performance engineering techniques.
• Good knowledge of Domain Driven Design and multiple Java frameworks
• Build, automated integration and deployment tools such as Maven and Jenkins.
• Experience in delivering code using TDD, CI/CD, Code Analysis and Coverage tools to support automated testing and monitoring
• Source Code Management Systems (GIT, Bit Bucket, SVN)
• Security – secure development principles, OAuth, infrastructure security, etc
• Experience of working with Enterprise Architecture Frameworks and their application
• Cloud infrastructure, Azured SQL datastores
• HA Design/Architecture principles

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.