Platform Technical Manager, Scotiabank

Requisition ID: 204209

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

Contributes to the overall success of the Event Driven Architecture and Real time events platform globally ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team's business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

Platform Engineering team is responsible for design, engineer, implement, and provide ongoing support of the production services, applications and platform components that comprise our backend platform. In this role, you will have the opportunity to leverage your technical skills in systems management, software development and devops to provide best-practices guidance and drive the engineering team's efforts to successful implementation of the product roadmap.

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

• Leading the engineering team towards achieving platform strategic objectives.
• Establishing project (application) objectives and milestones.
• Creating overall project and support plans (proficient using Microsoft office products including MS Project).
• Managing project resources and assigning tasks as well as monitoring efforts and results against plan.
• Preparing project status reports, dashboards etc.
• Risk planning and management, escalating appropriately cost, quality, time and scope issues and risks.
• Vendor management.

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

• Understanding business requirements and translating them into technical guidelines for development
• Lead start-up initiatives and managing diverse initiatives by providing guidance to development teams around intricacies and complexities of zero-based
• development.
• Dig into the business requirements as well as drilling into architecture with development teams and then drive the initiative's development process.
• Collaborate with multiple technical teams to understand interdependencies, commonality and variability of the solutions under development and then help the
• teams deliver a platform made of reusable and configurable capabilities.

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.
• 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

#LI-Hybrid

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.