Requisition ID: 249074
Thanks for your interest in ScotiaTech, Scotiabank's new and innovative Technology hub in Bogota.
Join a purpose driven winning team that promotes creativity and innovation in a fast-paced environment, where we’re always committed to results, in an inclusive, diverse, and high-performing culture.
The Team
Global Banking and Markets Engineering (GBME) is the fast-moving, award-winning technology engine that powers Scotiabank’s Corporate, Investment Banking, and Capital Markets businesses.
The Role
GBME’s Project Excellence Team is searching for Senior Technical Analysts to liaison between business stakeholders, internal engineering and architect teams, ensuring solutions are developed and delivered on time, and with high quality for various projects within GBME.
The successful candidate will have a results-oriented and curious mindset with strong technical skills. You will work closely with cross functional teams, including engineers, solutions architects, and business teams to develop and implement market leading solutions that are scalable, deliver excellence, and add value to our business partners and customers.
Accountabilities
- Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
- Work with cross functional teams in the planning, definition of scope, and solutioning of technical requirements.
- Align and present requirements to product functionality, offering best practice, and scalable solutions.
- Recommend effective solutions for business and technology objectives.
- Conduct thorough testing of technology solutions.
- Demonstrate an informed knowledge of business functions to resolve problems and capitalize on improvement opportunities.
- Develop and deliver Business Requirements Documents, Design Documents, Use Cases, and Process Models as required.
- Work closely across GBME technology teams during all stages of the system development life cycle and bridge the gap between business and technology sides of the solution.
- Liaising between the business community and the IT organization to provide technical solutions that meet user needs.
- Champion a high-performance environment and contribute to an inclusive work environment.
- Build relationships and communicate effectively with colleagues in Global regions.
- Perform ad hoc project work on various GBME projects.
- Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be incorporate into 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.
Education / Experience / Other Information
- Must to have:
- 6+ years' experience working with a variety of databases such as SQL Server, with ability to create and run queries independently.
- 6+ years hands on experience with the software development lifecycle, leading technical specification discussions with developers as well as SIT/UAT testing efforts
- Thorough understanding of the full Trade Life Cycle
- Excellent Microsoft suite skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project)
- Strong working knowledge of industry trends, best practices, and regulations
- Experience working on projects in either front, middle or back-office systems
- A recognized undergraduate degree or diploma in business administration, computer science or related field required (Polytech degree).
- B2 level of English.
- Soft sklills:
- Ability to adapt quickly to new processes and standards, with a strong commitment to providing exceptional customer service.
- Proven ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications and deliver working results.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills to manage stakeholder relations, and work with cross-departmental teams – ability to communicate effectively depending on the audience.
- Work as a contributing member of a team.
- Values quality, while still managing expectations and deliverables.
- Open to ideas and gives and receives feedback well.
- Wants to understand Capital Markets.
- Preferable:
- Practical progressive business analytics experience in building and supporting complex systems using latest technologies
- An understanding of the Bank’s application system and software from a business/technical viewpoint is required to assess the impact of development and/or changes to the overall data processing environment)
- Experience managing projects that span change in front, middle or back-office systems and teams
- Experience with but not limited to PL/SQL, UNIX, JAVA, XML, HTML, is an asset
- 8+ years practical experience in capital markets (Market Risk preferred).
Working Conditions
Work in a standard office-based environment; non-standard hours are a common occurrence.
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Location(s): Colombia : Bogota : Bogota
ScotiaTech is a business unit within ScotiaGBS, a Scotiabank Group company located in Bogota, Colombia. The ScotiaTech hub was created to support different technology systems and processes of the Bank. We offer an inclusive, positive work environment, and competitive benefits.
At ScotiaTech, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at ScotiaTech; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.
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