Senior Crypto Engineer

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

The Team

Crypto Product and Engineering team defines, builds, engineers, and maintains Scotiabank’s cryptographic product, services, and technology platforms, and works collaboratively and cross-functionally with global product and engineering teams to implement and advance strategic cryptographic capabilities across the enterprise.

The Role

As a Senior Crypto Engineer, you will be a core member of the Crypto Engineering pillar, responsible for the design and modernization of the crypto platform, including the development of automation and the scalability of security capabilities into foundational and transformational cryptographic security products across the enterprise. You will collaborate with various business lines, IT support, and Information Security & Control functions.

You will also serve as a subject matter expert in cryptography.

Is this role right for you?

In this role you will:

• Lead in multiple innovative crypto security crypto platform initiatives and solve complex technical challenges, ensuring the crypto platforms are secure and resilient.
• Develop crypto security platform solution aligned with bank standards, policies, and risk appetite to meet business needs.
• Work closely with Product and Tech Ops Engineers to ensure seamless alignment and integration of Crypto Engineering patterns, designs, and capabilities.
• Demonstrate personal accountability for assigned projects, initiatives, and daily processes, realizing results, with minimal guidance.
• Operate within a positive environment with highly motivated individuals that want to reduce the risks within the bank.
• Provide technical mentorship to engineers within your team and communicate best practices when working with other engineering teams.
• Respond to various audit, compliance, and IT risk teams to remediate risk-related issues.
• Contribute continuous iterative improvements in all processes and procedures within the team, while considering and evaluating the bank’s risk appetite and risk culture.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role?

We'd love to work with you if you have:

• 5+ years of hands-on technical working experience in implementation and deployment of complex or large-scale applications/systems/platforms in an enterprise and financial setting.
• Hands-on technical working experience in programming languages such as (by not limited to) Python, Java, bash, and Power Shell.
• Working knowledge of software development lifecycle and tools including JIRA, Bitbucket (Git), and Confluence.
• Working knowledge of deploying Platform services in the GCP and Azure.
• Ability to apply security principles to crypto platforms and solutions to meet IT standards, methodologies, key management regulations, and audit requirements.
• Working knowledge and experience in crypto engineering and platforms, key management practices, as well as good knowledge of other information security domains.
• Working knowledge of business analysis technology (PowerBI, Excel).
• Excellent communication (verbal/written/presentation), negotiating, and interpersonal skills with the ability to summarize material for senior management in English. The same in Spanish is a strong asset.
• Proactive mindset with the ability to stay current on evolving cryptographic security trends and technologies.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or a related field would be an asset.
• Security accreditations would be an asset.
• Cloud security (GCP, Azure) and container (Kubernetes) knowledge would be an asset.

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…