Title:  Lead Developer (UNIX/Database/ETL)

Requisition ID: 248730 

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

The Team

Contributes to the overall success of the Canadian Data Platforms team in Canada 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.

• Lead and drives a customer focused culture throughout their team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Provide technical analyses and recommendations in terms of new solutions and supporting existing ones, with a focus on creating robust and reusable solutions.
• Assess the systems architecture currently in place and working with technical staff to recommend solutions to improve it.  Work towards improving stability and decreasing vulnerabilities across the platform.
• Create and maintain documentation, such as architectural diagrams and best practices documents.
• Mentor team members to increase their knowledge and technical abilities.
• Manage the execution of day-to-day project-oriented work efforts and meeting customer expectations for contracted time, cost and specifications definitions. Reviewing requirements, estimating work effort on new initiatives, develop design documents (GDD) as well as File specs.
• Build and maintain strong working relationship with peers within the business unit and with business partners
• Responsible for assembling project plans and teamwork assignments, directing and monitoring work efforts, identifying resource needs, performing quality review while ensuring Bank standards are being adhered to.
• Provide expert advice to Business Partner and/or IT areas, and IT project teams.
• Operationalize technical and managerial processes and supervises the development and maintenance of business support systems.
• Review and approve Production ready deployment.
• Facilitate problem resolution when production problems occur.
• Ability to contribute in Agile environments with understanding of its methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and its tools (Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps).
• Work well independently & as part of a team; experience working with remote teams.
• Possess excellent technical presentation and communication skills.
• Desire of continuous learning to keep up with new technological innovations.
• 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 his/her respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, privacy and compliance
• Champion a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

• Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science or technical equivalent
• Must have at least 5 years of experience with working knowledge of AIX / Unix systems,
• 5+ years with Databases (DB2, Oracle, etc), Windows,
• 5+ years with ETL systems (Talend, iWay, Datastage, etc) 

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.