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Reporting to the Director, Data Strategy Enablement and Operations, you will execute the Canadian Banking data strategy through a practical operating model, ensuring data products are trusted, accessible, adopted, and tied to measurable business outcomes. You will connect business priorities with CID&A and Technology delivery to accelerate time to insight, improve operational performance, and enable data-driven growth across Canadian Banking.\nIs this role right for you? In this role you will:\nExecute the Data Strategy\nTranslate the multi-year Canadian Banking data roadmap into quarterly delivery plans aligned to priorities such as client primacy, return on equity, deposit growth, and servicing excellence.\nLead demand intake, identify high-value data and analytics use cases, and manage value-based prioritization.\nDevelop investment inputs and track adoption, value realization, P&L impact, and ROI for data initiatives.\nRepresent Canadian Banking requirements in enterprise data strategy, platform modernization, and transformation initiatives, ensuring business readiness, continuity, and adoption.\nDrive Delivery, Operations, and Governance\nCoordinate the end-to-end data product lifecycle across business, CID&A, and Technology, translating business needs into clear requirements, user stories, and delivery outcomes.\nManage the data product backlog, dependencies, risks, operational performance, and readiness, escalating early to protect delivery and service continuity.\nReduce manual reporting through automation, standardization, and reuse of trusted data assets, dashboards, and reporting infrastructure.\nOperationalize enterprise data governance within Canadian Banking by strengthening ownership, stewardship, quality, lineage, auditability, access, and reporting transparency.\nSupport compliance with internal and external data control standards and coordinate data-related matters with Risk, Compliance, and Audit.\nData Enablement and Adoption\nBuild data literacy and scale self-service analytics through business-focused tools, training, documentation, and best practices.\nLead business readiness and adoption as analytics and business users migrate to new data platforms and enterprise data assets.\nEnable responsible AI and ML initiatives aligned to Canadian Banking priorities by identifying high-value use cases and delivering trusted, governed, secure, and fit-for-purpose data products with appropriate privacy, bias, explainability, and monitoring controls.\nProvide executive-ready insights on delivery, adoption, value, risks, and decisions, and promote a culture of innovation, user-centricity, and continuous improvement.\nDo you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:\n7+ years of experience in data strategy, data product management, product ownership, data governance, or analytics operations.\nFinancial services experience, with a strong preference for Canadian Banking.\nA proven track record of managing data product roadmaps, backlogs, and complex programs across large, matrixed organizations.\nStrong knowledge of data governance, quality, lineage, privacy, and controls in a regulated environment.\nWorking knowledge of modern data ecosystems, cloud platforms, and BI tools (e.g., Databricks, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, and Power BI).\nStrong ability to translate business priorities into actionable requirements and measurable data-product outcomes.\nExceptional executive communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.\nExperience leading change, adoption, training, and enablement for new data platforms, products, or tools.\nExperience leading high-performing teams with strong ownership, collaboration, and a bias for action.\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.\nWe 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. \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 such as hackathons, contests, Humans of Digital and much more!\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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