Title:  Senior Delivery Lead-Business Banking Engineering

Requisition ID: 257339 

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

Scotiabank continues to be an industry leader for Payment’s technology and innovation. We have a history of safely leveraging new tools to enable new experiences for our customers, focusing on ensuring we protect their interests and goals. The result of this leads to modernization programs which aim to offer enriched information and transparencies to support the rapidly evolving payments community.

Purpose

Business Banking is seeking a Senior Delivery Lead to engage on the management of solutions to business banking. This role focuses execution-focused on business banking application suite that replaces legacy capabilities with API-first, cloud-native, loosely coupled services and experiences, integrating internal and third-party platforms.

Reporting to the Senior Manager Business Banking, you will be working with our business partners as well as engineering, product, security, data, infrastructure and other application teams to deliver production-ready solutions aligned to enterprise standards for security, resiliency, scalability, availability, and regulatory compliance.

This is a hands-on role. You are expected to understand the business application as well is its dependency system as well as leading a team of delivery leads across the business banking domain

What You’ll Do:

• Own end-to-end delivery of the digital and assisted channel of the business banking onboarding application
• Own the planning, execution, and delivery of technology projects, ensuring alignment with scope, timelines, and quality standards.
• Ensure applications within the business domain is update to date with security and software currency. Keeping application free of known vulnerabilities.
• Technical Leadership: Provide hands-on guidance in Java/React/Pega application development, data integration, and API design to support project goals.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the primary liaison between business and technical teams, ensuring clear communication and alignment on priorities.
• Agile Delivery: Drive agile practices (Scrum/Kanban), ensuring iterative delivery and continuous improvement.
• Risk & Issue Management: Identify technical and delivery risks early, propose mitigation strategies, and ensure timely resolution.
• CI/CD Integration: Oversee integration of automated builds, tests, and deployments using tools like Jenkins, PDM, Gradle, and Git.
• Mentorship: Coach and mentor team members on best practices in development, data engineering, and agile delivery.

What You'll Bring:

• 5+ years of business banking and/or delievery lead experience with at least five years of managing projects of a large cross-functional team
• Strong understanding of technologies (SQL, application, ETL).
• Experience with API development, microservices architecture, and integration patterns.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools (Jenkins, Git, Gradel, PDM).
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Excellent leadership and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Knowledge of performance tuning for Java/React applications and Pega.
• Preferred Qualifications: Familiarity with business banking

Technology Environment

• You will work within a modern engineering environment that may include (not all required):
• Backend: Java (Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka, JDK 17+) and/or Node.js / Next.js / Pega
• Frontend: React
• Data: MongoDB, SQL
• Integration: REST/SOAP APIs, OAuth, Backend-for-Frontend (BFF)
• Cloud: GCP, Azure
• Delivery: JIRA, Confluence
• Pega 24+ (preferred)

Education & Mindset

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Business banking or financial services experience preferred.
• Customer-first mindset with strong risk awareness; bias for clarity, quality, and execution.

Working Conditions

Work in a standard office-based environments located in Scarborough and Downtown Toronto; non-standard hours are a common occurrence. No external travel required.

Interested?

If your experience is closely related but doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we do encourage you to apply - you might be the right candidate for this or other roles at Scotiabank!

At Scotiabank, every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are and, embraced for their differences. That’s why we work to grow and diversify talent and engage employees in a performance-oriented culture.

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.

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.