Lead Software Engineer with Capital Markets

Requisition ID: 255816 

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

The Team

The Global Market Risk Technology team is a crucial part of the Global Banking & Markets Engineering group. This is an opportunity to work in the exciting world of Capital markets and Market Risk Management. We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join the Market Risk Technology team.

The Role

As part of the engineering team, you will be contributing to design and development of very large complex market risk system using Java, Python, .NET, Oracle and Postgres DBs, and supporting the delivery of high‑availability applications for Global Risk Management and regulatory needs.

You will also assist the level 1 support team and business users by troubleshooting and resolving application issues.

This role provides a great opportunity to use and sharpen multiple platform technical skills at once and further to learn the risk management knowledge. You will work with various technical and business partners to understand requirements, contribute to the analysis, design and implement effective technical solutions.

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

• Work with Sr. Management/Director of the team to drive strategy to transform and modernize our market risk management platforms using new technologies and tools available that best support the business needs and growth.
• Work closely with business analysis, technology teams and end users to understand business needs, conduct gap analysis and requirements assessments as needed.
• Partner with Architecture team on the design and integration.
• Lead in the design, development and implementation of effective and quality solutions that resolve highly complex business problems and support smooth production.  
• Ensure that delivery meets the integrity, quality, performance and reliability requirements including using automated testing and regression suites and use of DevOps principles.
• Proactively ensure the system meets the highest standards for Audit, compliance and currency requirements and lead audit reviews and closures.
• Coordinate infrastructure needs for covering securities, currency requirements and requisitioning Unix and Windows Servers, Cloud based infrastructure, databases and assist actively with documentational requirements.  
• Design test cases and automate where possible, including functional and nonfunctional testing, regression testing as well as performance testing.
• Write deployment scripts and leverage tools such as Azure DevOps and the Scotia Accelerator pipelines to promote code.
• Effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences
• Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment including AI use cases
• Have broad and deep technical knowledge across different platforms and environments such as private and public clouds.
• Oversee and improve team engineering standards, including managing peer code review and documentation.
• Independently manage non-production environments, code repositories, development pipelines/deployments and release management.
• Lead monthly release planning for the engineering team.
• Coach and mentor junior staff and play a leading role in driving the team skills development and team success.
• This role is expected to evolve into a people manager role.

This role is based in Toronto with an office policy of 2 days and soon to be 4 days per week.

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

• University degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Finance, or a related field, with 15+ years of progressive IT experience.
• 10+ years of Software development experience in other Languages such as Java, Linux Shell, Python or .NET.  
• 10+ years of RDBMS Oracle or Postgres DB or a major SQL vendor
• 10+ years of experience with unit-testing, code for robustness, usability and improving application performance
• 5+ years’ experience designing and developing large-scale software applications, considering security, scalability requirements and system modernization.
• 5+ years’ experience in independently leading the full software development lifecycle including overseeing the delivery of other partners such as BAs and other stakeholders.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as GIT
• Deep knowledge with CI/CD and DevOps best practices.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and the ability to clearly document processes and findings.
• Excellent communication and documentation on architecture, design, requirement and test cases.
• 10+ years of experience supporting systems or applications in a production environment.
• 5+ years of experience in capital market experience, prefer market risk management experience.
• Knowledge of public cloud, Kubernetes and Docker are assets.

What's in it for you?

• We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success!
• We provide you with the tools and technology needed to create new customer experiences.
• You'll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world
• Onsite cafeteria.
• Dress codes don't apply here, being comfortable does.
• We offer a competitive total rewards package that includes a base salary, a performance bonus, company matching programs (pension & profit sharing), generous vacation, personal & sick days, personal development funding, maternity leave top-up, parental leave and much more.

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.