Title:  Senior Manager, Testing and Migrations, Global Payment Platforms, GTB - Toronto, ON

Requisition ID: 250894 

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

Global Transaction Banking

Global Transaction Banking (GTB) is the payments and transaction engine of Scotiabank. We support Small Business, Commercial and Corporate clients with effective treasury management solutions coupled with a best-in-class service model, making it easy for clients to do business with us.

As businesses build their digital capabilities and transform their operating models, their payment needs are evolving too. Boasting a unique global footprint, GTB’s comprehensive suite of innovative banking solutions help our business clients generate operational efficiencies, streamline and simplify payments, improve working capital performance, and mitigate financial risk.

At Scotiabank, we embrace your strengths, ideas, and ambitions. GTB is a fast-growing team with a focus on the Americas, particularly Canada, the U.S., Mexico, and we are seeking top tier talent to complement our organization.

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

Purpose
Contributes to the overall success of Global Transaction Banking globally, ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensure all activities conducted follow governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

The Senior Manager, Testing and Migrations plays a mission-critical role in Scotiabank’s High Value Payments Modernization (HVPM) Program, responsible for leading endtoend testing strategy, orchestration, and execution across multiple labs, platforms, and jurisdictions. This leader drives the migration roadmap from legacy BESSbased architectures toward APS/Finaclealigned modern platforms, ensuring stability, operational readiness, regulatory compliance, and seamless client impact.

The role requires deep expertise in wire payments, SWIFT/Fedwire workflows, Cash application patterns, and a strong command of complex multistep cutovers, parallel run strategies, and crossborder operational change.

What You’ll Do:

• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Define, own, and maintain the enterprise testing strategy for HVPM—including system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), E2E flows, performance testing, and regression suites—aligned to crosslab roadmap dependencies.
• Oversee test environment planning and readiness; resolve constraints highlighted in Steerco updates.
• Supporting the executive business case to obtain project approval.
• Partner with Technology, Business, and delivery lab leadership to ensure testing milestones are met and quality standards enforced.
• Lead the design and delivery of cutover and migration plans for high value payment flows across Canada and the U.S.
• Manage migration rehearsals, parallel run approaches, reconciliation validation, and volume ramp up plans.
• Drive alignment across Operations, Technology, Finance, Architecture, Compliance, and Risk partners to ensure readiness for each release. 
• Work closely with Product Owners, Lab Leads, and HVPM governance bodies to sequence testing and migration activities within program roadmaps.
• Identify risks (environment, data, vendor readiness, cross border dependencies), maintain RAID items, and track mitigation progress through governance forums.
• Develop clear, consumable communication for frontline operations and partner teams during migration events and system changes.
• 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.

What You'll Bring:

• 7–10+ years of experience in enterprise modernization, high‑value payments operations, or testing leadership roles.
• Deep expertise in high‑value payments ecosystems, including Fedwire, CHIPS, SWIFT MT/MX, and Lynx, along with posting, reconciliation, and cross‑border cash management processes.
• Proven success leading large‑scale system migrations involving multiple platforms, vendors, and regulatory jurisdictions.
• Strong foundation in enterprise testing methodologies, including environment strategy, data validation, and defect management.
• Agile certifications such as CSPO or CSM are considered an asset.
• Solid understanding of product lifecycle management and agile delivery practices.
• Experience working in Agile environments or directly with development teams (asset).
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, business‑friendly language.
• Demonstrated ability to bridge business and technology, facilitating alignment and productive collaboration.
• Ability to leverage in-depth knowledge of product, operations, and technology interdependencies to coordinate across teams, optimize resources, and ensure alignment with business and enterprise strategies.
• Awareness of emerging technologies, with a strong commitment to continuous learning and growth.
• Works independently and efficiently under pressure, balancing priorities and driving timely issue resolution.
• Applies strong conflict‑management, negotiation, and persuasion skills to influence outcomes and build consensus.

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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?

Scotiabank wants you to be able to bring your best self to work – and life, every day. With a focus on holistic well-being, our many flexible benefit programs are designed to help support your unique family, financial, physical, mental, and social health needs.

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.