Title:  Principal Security Product Owner

Requisition ID: 254276 

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

The Role:

The Principal Security Product Owner defines and drives the product strategy for security products across the enterprise. This role owns the product roadmap, translates risk into prioritized security capabilities, and partners across engineering, architecture, legal, and governance teams to deliver security products. The ideal candidate has strong leadership and stakeholder engagement skills, to understand and consolidate organizational security requirement; govern and guide the delivery of next generation security products through large-scale transformation; develop and maintain a shared product framework including strategy, roadmap, budgeting, and processes in collaborate with engineering, architecture, operation, and control function teams.

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

• Understand and define the objectives and scope of security products, clearly outline the problems, and risks it's solving.
• Define the product strategy, including vendor selection, contract negotiation, define MVP and rollout plan
• Build and maintain product vision roadmaps and facilitate communication on roadmap progress with executive level stakeholders and clients
• Manage and prioritize with a risk-based approach on the product backlog, new features, and enhancements
• Facilitate forums and prepare the team for constructive collaboration sessions with cross-functional teams, technology and business channels, and control functions
• Develop business cases based on the roadmap and priority, align with Technology, PMO, and Finance teams on the funding required, cost and benefit analysis, and cost allocation model
• Define and report on overall product status, metrics, key achievements, next steps and risks with a data-driven approach

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

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) required
• 10+ years’ experience in a Product Management (or equivalent) capacity required
• 7+ years’ experience in Information Security or Information Technology
• 3+ years’ experience in working with Regulatory, Compliance, Risk and Audit functions
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Leadership through influence across multiple types of stakeholders
• Strong planning and organizational skills; can manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines
• Experience in the information security industry and with security software products
• Excellent understanding on financial principles of large enterprise organization
• Experience in working with complex processes
• Willingness to learn and grow, and demonstrate resilience to ever-changing priorities

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 such as hackathons, contests, Humans of Digital 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.