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The Director, Engineering will own the end-to-end delivery of the program, ensuring data integrity, operational continuity, excellence and regulatory compliance throughout the transformation.\nThe director will work across technology engineering, operations, product, and compliance teams to define strategy, manager execution, and lead the change from legacy systems to our future-state platform.\nReporting to the VP, this role plays a key part in translating vision into executable plans and ensuring those plans are delivered with a high level of quality, stability, and stakeholder alignment.\nIs this role right for you? In this role, you will:\nResponsible for the successful engineering delivery across Canadian Banking Client Management Engineeringin alignment with strategic priorities, while maintaining stability, scalability, and high performance of critical applications.\nPartners with Canadian Banking business lines, including Digital Product, Client Experience, and Operations teams, to define and deliver robust technical solutions that support a best in class Client experiences\nExecutes on the strategic roadmap, ensuring seamless transition from strategy to technical implementation, and fostering continuous feedback loops between engineering and the business.\nLeads and manages end-to-end delivery of engineering of large transformation initiatives, ensuring proper planning, execution, QA, deployment, and ongoing support for all releases.\nChampions a client-focused engineering culture across the team, prioritizing value delivery, customer experience, and the secure, compliant operation of client-facing digital systems.\nDrives engineering excellence by promoting best practices in coding, architecture, AI, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, test automation, and incident response.\nBuilds a high-performance team, attracting, developing, and retaining top engineering talent. Fosters an inclusive and collaborative environment where continuous learning and innovation are encouraged.\nDrives platform resiliency and operational readiness, ensuring application reliability through comprehensive monitoring, proactive issue identification, and thorough root cause analysis for incidents.\nDirects day-to-day activities in a manner consistent with the Bank’s risk culture and the relevant risk appetite statement and limits. Communicates the Bank’s risk culture and risk appetite statement throughout their teams\nCreates an environment in which his/her team pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk, including but not limited to responsibilities under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and the Guidelines for Business Conduct\nDo you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:\nProven experience with customer master data and core banking systems in a regulated financial services environment\nDeep understanding of book of record concepts (ownership of authoritative customer and account data, transaction consistency, data reconciliation)\nFamiliarity with financial products (retail banking, lending, deposits, wealth) and their data models\nHands-on experience with mainframe-based core systems is an asset\nUnderstanding of batch processing, transaction management and data flows in a legacy environment\nExperience analyzing and mapping legacy data structures to modern data models\nTrack record of leading modernization or transformation programs involving core banking or customer master systems is an asset\nExperience in data migration strategies: ETL, real-time replication, reconciliation and phased cutover\nProven ability to de-risk large-scale cutovers and manage transitional states between systems\nFamiliarity with data governance, lineage, and master data management tools\nFamiliarity with API-frist, microservices, and event-driven architecture\nStrong communication skills with a proven ability to understand key business and technical concepts, and then effectively communicate these concepts with technical staff, business stakeholders and senior management\nStrong organizational skills with the ability to perform under pressure while managing multiple priorities with competing demands for resources and budget\nStrong analytical, finance & accounting, data processing and problem-solving skills\nExperience in a leadership role with application development, technical architecture, data, and delivery focus\nExperience managing operating budgets and multi-million dollar project budgets while effectively navigating financial constraints to ensure cost efficiency.\nStrong project management skills, able to multi-task and manage concurrent projects\nExperience with vendor product assessment & selection, vendor management & negotiating contractual terms\nProven ability to deliver platforms and capabilities and managing solutions through the lifecycle\nSignificant experience leading complex solution implementations and team sizes ranging from 50 to 100 resources\nSubject area experience with Financial Industry products and services preferred: Retail Banking/Lending, Commercial Banking/Lending, Credit Card Processing and Global Payment Processing\nSubject area experience with anti-money laundering & KYC, compliance, and regulatory requirements (such as AML, CASL, OSFI) is an asset\nExperience with transforming a delivery team to adopt Agile and AI principles is an asset\nComputer Engineering / Applied Science / Technology, or relevant work experience\n10+ years of Software Engineering experience\n10+ years of progressively increasing leadership experience in Information Technology management data, platform, and system(s) management\nWhat's in it for you?\nDiversity, 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.\nAccessibility 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.\nUpskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.\nCompetitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days, and benefits will start on day one.\nCommunity Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs.\nLocation(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto\nScotiabank 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.\nAt 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. 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