Senior Manager, Resilience Engineering (Scenario Testing)

Requisition ID: 262286 

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

As the Senior Manager, Resilience Engineering (Scenario Testing), you contribute to the global success of the Resilience Engineering function by designing, facilitating, assessing, and governing Technology Scenario Tests in order to continuously improve the bank’s resilience capabilities. In this role you will deliver on the requirements of the Technology Scenario Testing Program and help to drive improvements in automation, testing, and observability capabilities that enhance the stability and reliability of technology services.

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

• Champion a customer focused, engineering driven culture that strengthens resilience across the bank’s global technology organization.
• Provide thought leadership on resilience engineering practices, including risk and hazard analysis, scenario design, scenario facilitation techniques, and post-exercise analysis.
• Work to build consensus across the organization and foster a culture of resilience and reliability
• Work with teams across the organization to identify gaps build strong resilience capabilities
• Engage with stakeholders in both the technology and business communities in order to design and coordinate effective technology scenario tests
• Design and manage Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) as they relate to Technology Scenario Testing and engage stakeholders to communicate performance
• Perform qualitative analysis of past scenario tests and pervious technology incidents and work with stakeholders to update relevant scenario libraries to improve testing effectiveness
• Clearly articulate complex engineering concepts and resilience risks to both technical and non-technical audiences, enabling informed decision making.
• Lead and participate in resilience engineering forums, communities of practice, and cross-functional working groups.
• Use analytical tooling (e.g., SQL, Python, data visualization platforms, monitoring and observability systems) to derive trends, correlations, and identify focus areas for testing exercises.
• Develop, administer and review resilience assessments for technical services within the bank
• Review and analyze previous incident reports and resilience assessments and develop severe but plausible scenarios for testing
• Work with service owners and business stakeholders to identify scope, constraints, and evaluation criteria for technology scenario testing exercises
• Act as primary facilitator for Technology Scenario Tests
• Lead the analysis of completed tests and act as lead author of the final testing report, identifying risks and creating action items
• Champion a culture of insight driven engineering, ensuring teams use data effectively to inform decisions, drive proactivity, and validate resilience controls

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

• 7–10+ years of experience in technology engineering roles such as site reliability engineering (SRE), platform engineering, solution architecture, system design, production engineering, or incident response.
• Experience in performing quantitative and qualitative analysis of incident data in order to find patterns and identify risks
• Proficiency with analytics tooling (SQL, Python, Jupyter, PowerBI)
• Experience in, or exposure to, Process Hazard Analysis techniques (HAZOP, What-If, FMEA, FTA, etc) and System Hazards Analysis techniques (STPA, FRAM, etc)
• Familiarity with ITSM processes and tooling (ServiceNow experience is a plus)
• Ability to convert complex datasets into engineering actions, design improvements, and strategic recommendations
• Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence at senior levels across technology and risk stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills—able to translate complex engineering findings into clear narratives and actionable recommendations
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills, able to manage multiple workstreams concurrently
• Demonstrated collaboration across enterprise functions, including architecture, security, operational resilience, development, and infrastructure teams
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud architectures, networking fundamentals, and application patterns that impact availability and resilience
• Hands on experience with resilience engineering practices such as: 
  • failure mode and dependency analysis
  • automated failover/failure testing
  • observability, metrics, logging, distributed tracing
  • performance and capacity engineering
  • chaos engineering
• Experience deploying and operating software on major cloud platforms (GCP, Azure) and container/orchestration ecosystems (Kubernetes)
• Professional certifications (e.g., cloud architecture, SRE, ITIL, resilience/continuity) beneficial but not required

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 employees 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 such as hackathons, contests, Humans of Digital 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.