IT Project Lead

Requisition ID: 211126

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

Global Wealth Management Technology portfolio remediation team works closely with multiple stakeholders to address foundational aspects of the Wealth portfolio, including but not limited to Software Currency, Cloud Migration and Vulnerability Management. Joining our team gives you access to great opportunities with a wide range of traditional and emerging technologies while delivering innovative solutions for our business applications and platforms.

We are looking for an energetic and results-driven Senior Project Lead/Technical Navigator. The role acts as the link between the business, wealth development teams and the technical teams across the bank to make sure that the project teams deliver quality solutions that are optimized, secure, highly scalable, and flexible - all while maintaining a strong customer focus.

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

• Establish priorities, standards, and strategies consistent with technology roadmap, business goals and economic viability.
• Work with project sponsor to help understand infrastructure needs, and technical constraints to establish the scope of the project and define and deliver complex features.
• Provide input to the continuous improvement of processes and adopting latest technologies and methodologies.
• Meet product owners, project sponsors, project stakeholders on a regular basis and help technical teams to identify, define, and specify solutions.
• Excellent relationship building, influencing and negotiation skills to build and maintain strong supportive relationships with stakeholders across the organization.
• Engage with the engineering and design teams to help determine the best technical implementation methods as well as a reasonable implementation schedule to launch products on a regular basis.
• You enjoy challenges of working on different types of projects (from large complex to simple).
• You collaborate with various business functions to ensure Wealth Management Technology meets business needs.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:

• Knowledge of cloud architecture and deployment processes, essential for managing the re-hosting and re-deployment of applications to public cloud environments like GCP.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies, especially Kubernetes, to effectively manage and orchestrate micro-service deployments.
• Strong expertise in cloud platforms, with a particular focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and a deep understanding of its PaaS offerings to ensure smooth migration and operation of services.
• A solid experience in a software engineering and development role, experience with scalability issues and multi-tiered integration solutions
• Passionate about technology, maintains superior knowledge of emerging industry trends across multiple disciplines
• Show proven ability to deliver projects using Agile methodologies and lean approach techniques.
• Communicate proactively with all stakeholders to provide encouragement, identify problems, create solutions. and implement efficiency improvements.
• Thinks outside of the box and able to lead the teams to innovate
• Ability to effectively manage multiple projects of varying complexity in a sophisticated matrix management organization.
• Good knowledge of wealth products and services

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 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.
• Accessibility 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.
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.
• Dynamic Ecosystem - Free tea & coffee, universal washrooms, and lots of space for team collaboration.
• Community Engagement - No matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, cooking with friends, Humans of Digital and much more!

Working location condition: Hybrid

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Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Scotiabank 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.

At 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. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.