Title:  Lead Data Engineer - Market & Reference Data (Capital Markets)

Requisition ID: 256306 

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

The Role

The team is seeking a seasoned ead Data Engineer – Market & Reference Data (Capital Markets) with strong capital markets expertise to design, integrate, and manage the ingestion of market and reference data from both vendor-based and in‑house source systems into the Asset Control (AC) Platform. This role plays a critical part in enabling accurate, scalable, and governed data feeds that support business‑critical trading, risk, regulatory, and analytics systems across the enterprise.

The successful candidate combines deep technical delivery experience with a strong understanding of financial instruments, market data vendors, and asset‑class‑specific data structures.

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

• Design, build, and maintain robust data ingestion and distribution pipelines for market and reference data within the Asset Control (AC) Platform.
• Integrate external vendor feeds (e.g. Bloomberg, LSEG) and internal source systems, ensuring accurate normalisation, enrichment, and persistence of data.
• Develop and maintain in‑house data feeds to support downstream front‑, middle‑, and back‑office systems, including trading, risk, compliance, and reporting platforms.
• Serve as a technical lead and subject‑matter expert for market and reference data, advising on best practices for data modelling, symbology mapping, and asset‑class‑specific attributes.
• Manage the handling of security and instrument identifiers (e.g. CUSIP, ISIN, FIGI, Sedol) across the data lifecycle, including vendor cross‑referencing and symbology resolution.
• Ensure data quality, lineage, controls, and consistency in alignment with enterprise data governance standards.
• Partner closely with business, technology, data governance, and vendor teams to analyse requirements, resolve data issues, and support platform evolution.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to engineers within the team, contributing to technical standards, design reviews, and delivery practices.

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

• Strong hands‑on experience integrating market and reference data from major vendors such as Bloomberg and LSEG.
• Proven knowledge of security and instrument reference data, including CUSIP, ISIN, FIGI, and their use across the trade lifecycle.
• Solid understanding of multiple asset classes (e.g. Equities, Fixed Income, FX, Derivatives) and their associated market and static data attributes.
• Strong experience designing scalable, resilient data pipelines and feeds in a distributed data platform environment.
• Experience working with data quality, reconciliation, lineage, and control frameworks in regulated environments.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders and translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with security master or asset control platforms.
• Background in data governance, metadata management, or reference data domain models.
• Prior experience leading or mentoring senior engineers in delivery teams.

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 engagement & belonging with our various programs.

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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.