The Team

Scotiabank continues to be an industry leader for Payments 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.

The Role

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to innovate and collaborate on the value-driven goals in delivering customer value. You will engage in a fast-paced and stimulating environment, with opportunities to build new relationships and learn how you can make an impact in the competitive, trillion-dollar, Payments industry. You will be exposed to a wide range of businesses both internally and externally, then leveraging Scotiabank’s strong technology base, build and develop on strategic, forward-looking infrastructure.

Is this role right for you

• Be at the forefront of technology and enable your team to be a highly functioning technology power house that enables transformation.
• Advanced knowledge in multiple system/application areas of increasing complexity
• Working knowledge of an entire application/system; Engineers software solutions that meet the needs of stakeholders while focusing on continually reducing technical debt
• Can accomplish more complex goals independently
• Identifies and manages risks versus opportunities and articulates impact towards deliverables
• Actively participates in customer discovery and solution discovery sessions
• Participates in merging, integrating, versioning, and promoting code through environments and version control
• Triaging and problem-solving production incidents to restore services with follow up on root cause and restore efforts
• Collaborates to provide estimation and break down of work to enable small and frequent releases to production
• Proactively provide guidance and recommendation for the software design
• Actively participates in knowledge exchange forums (i.e. Engineering Communities of Practice, Industry Forums, Open Source Communities, Universities, etc.)
• Consistently demonstrates behaviours aligned with the organizations valued mindsets
• Embrace and initiate change for continuous improvement

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role

• Desire for innovation and drive for innovation through problem solving, leveraging resourcefulness as a key skill; have a learning mindset while intrinsically motivated to learning new tools and techniques
• Technical understanding – as a standard Software Engineer there will be expectations that you are able to lead technical discussions, challenge design and strategy
• Working experience with IBM tools (Websphere, ACE, IIB, RSA, MQ, DB2)
• Use of analytics to enable day-to-day conversations and decision making
• Good to have experience and/or certifications with Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, or other cloud-based development stacks
• Good to have experience with containerization and orchestration (such as Docker, Kubernetes) and DevOp tools (such as Bitbucket, Git, Ansible, Jenkins)
• Familiar with languages, frameworks, and databases (such as Java/Spring, Node.js/Express.js, Python, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DB2)
• Leveraging Google based AI tools

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 egagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons and much more!