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As Canada’s leading digital bank, we thrive on innovation, agility, and bold thinking, tackling every challenge head-on with leading technology and the unstoppable power of collaboration.\nOur client-obsessed teams deliver flexible, accessible banking solutions, breakthrough products, and award-winning service. Beyond banking, we’re committed to making an impact in the communities we serve and across our organization. We foster a culture built on integrity, inclusion, and fearless ambition - where diverse perspectives are valued, and people are empowered to do their best work.\nAre you ready to disrupt the status quo? Do you crave challenges that push boundaries? If you’re a high performer looking to accelerate your career and reimagine the banking landscape, this is your moment.\nLet’s shape the future of banking together!\nLeads and builds out a new data engineering platform for Tangerine to enable business analytics and production AI and ML applications, in support of business strategies and objectives. 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Work closely with security architecture and security advisory committee to ensure continued adherence to directives and all security practices. \nAdvances our testing processes including unit, integration, functional, non-functional and security testing. \nKeeps up with innovation in the field of data and AI, enabling advancements around cloud, agentic AI, and production ML workloads. \nChampions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment. \nUnderstands how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in dayto-day activities and decisions. \nActively 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. \nDo you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:\n12+ years of data engineering industry experience with a minimum of 8 years designing data platforms for large, complex enterprise applications. \nExperience as a technical leader for large technology programs and initiatives \nKnowledge of/or hands-on experience with data and data warehousing technologies \nExperience shaping and communicating the design pattern to store, organize, process and prepare data for various business purposes \nExperience building, architecting, designing, and implementing data pipelines to support multiple types of downstream needs, ranging from reporting and analytics to production ML inference pipelines and agentic workflows. \nExperience designing and implementing public cloud-based applications on Google Cloud Platform and other cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) \nFamiliarity with DevOps practices and knowledge of enhancing CI/CD pipelines. \nExcellent interpersonal, communication, and influencing skills with the ability to build and foster relationships with business partners, project stakeholders, strategic technology partners and external vendors. \nCommitment to maintaining a diversified set of skills through continued education and mentoring peers and junior and senior team members. \nAbility to collaborate across team and organizational boundaries, build relationships, and achieve broader organizational goals. \nExperience working with 3rd party vendors including defining SLOs, limitations, security assessments, etc. to achieve business goals. \nWhat's in it for you?\nYou will be part of a diverse and inclusive team of Client-focused go-getters looking to learn from each other in an environment that celebrates and recognizes success!\nYou will have access to thousands of online and in person courses so you can shape your career growth with the support from diverse industry leaders.\nYou will get our help to save for your future and to invest in your total wellbeing through our Tangerine benefits*.\nYou belong here, we are equal and un-complicated. Bring your true self to work, dress codes don’t apply here.\nYou will enjoy workspace flexibility and all the excitement that comes from working at the official Bank of the Toronto Raptors.\n*Tangerine employees participate in Scotiabank’s pension & benefits programs (available to permanent employees)\nLocation(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto\nAt Tangerine we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the team, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment. 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