Title:  Programmer Analyst Senior - Mainframe

Purpose

The Software Engineer will be working in a cross functional technology team responsible for the bank's Customer data and will contribute to the overall success of the team ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives.  Ensures all activities conducted are following governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures.

The incumbent should be a self-starter and be able to work independently with little or no supervision.  They should have strong communication skills, a client focused mindset, and take accountability and ownership of tasks. 

Accountabilities

• Provide system analysis, design / programming, technical documentation, and support for existing and new applications and systems. 
• Work with project team to refine technical requirements and build the technical design and guidance based on the bank’s enterprise architecture standards.  
• Perform coding, unit testing, debugging, documenting, and implementing applications and scripts.

• Participate in regular code reviews for release activities.
• Contributes to a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems, and knowledge.
• Ability to work collaboratively and communicate clearly and concisely with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, job failures, and provide support for production applications.
• Analyze and resolve incident tickets assigned to the group based on severity and priority and identify the root cause for resolution.
• Ensure incident and change management processes are executed as mandated, partnering with various internal teams.
• Provide Release Management support including post-release health checks and monitoring of applications and ensure timely communications to upstream and downstream teams.
• Provide after-hours support via an on-call pager on a rotational basis for production incidents, application releases during a maintenance windows and other maintenance activities.
•  Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.
• Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

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

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or technical equivalent.
• Experience with COBOL, SAS, JCL, TSO, DB2, and IMS platforms.
• Experience in Application Support, Log Monitoring, Debugging and Incident Management process.

• Excellent communication skills (verbal/written/presentation).