Software Engineer, Backend Developer, Cloud Engineer - Software

Scotiabank is hiring a Staff Software Engineer. This is a full-time role in CA. Part of Scotiabank's Risk hiring. Full responsibilities, required qualifications, and the apply link are listed in the description below.

The Accelerator team is a group of highly skilled professionals that ensure the success of Scotiabank Digital Banking initiatives worldwide through the effective use of technology and collaboration.

The Staff Software Engineer position leads and oversees a key portfolio within the Cloud and Platform Engineering Group, ensuring business strategies, plans and initiatives are executed and delivered in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures. This role is accountable for development and operations implementation of technology solutions that support Digital Banking and Cloud Business strategies and objectives as well as ensuring compliance with security and bank regulations.

This role will contribute to the overall success of the Cloud and Platform Engineering unit by ensuring the delivery of high‑quality technology solutions through effective collaboration with technology professionals and key stakeholders within Digital Banking and across Scotiabank.

• Works closely with business lines and Digital Banking stakeholders (e.g. Systems Testing, Release Management, Development, Security) in the planning, development and implementation of technology solutions.
• Responsible for meeting scheduled milestones to ensure project/program objectives are met in a timely manner and are in accordance with the product roadmap approved by the business line.
• Responsible for timely resolution of internal/external issues, ensuring solutions provided to the business meet best practices, quality and security standards.
• Key accountabilities include design, development and maintenance of cloud platforms, services, and components to enable safe enterprise‑wide use of public cloud offerings.
• Manage communication with all key stakeholders and bank groups that impact the scope, budget, risk, and resources of the work effort being managed.
• Manages a team of technology professionals to successfully deliver high‑quality technology solutions through scheduling, technical direction, future planning and standard CI/CD practices.
• Creates an environment in which his/her team 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.
• Writes well designed, testable, efficient code by using best software development practices.
• Gathers and refines specifications and requirements based on technical needs.
• Creates and maintains software documentation.

• 8 or more years in progressive roles within Application Engineering/Technology, with technical working experience developing and/or supporting multi‑platform‑based applications and infrastructure with 2 or more years’ experience in leading application development/delivery teams.
• Advanced development experience & skills with REST API, functional programming, object‑oriented design, data structures, and systems integration.
• Experience working with authenticated, customer focused applications.
• Experience in the administration of CI/CD tools (e.g. GIT, Cloudbees, Git Hub, Git Hub Actions, Argo).
• Ability to work with configuration and orchestration tools to automate deployment delivery such as Ansible, Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with container‑based virtualization technology such as Docker.
• Fluency in scripting languages like Groovy, Shell, Golang and Python.
• Experience with public cloud solutions like Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Knowledgeable with policy‑as‑code and deployment gating concepts.
• High level Unix/Linux administration skills.
• Stayed up to date with industry best practices.

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