Advisory Software Engineer

Scotiabank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Diversity and inclusion programs

Competitive rewards program

Upskilling opportunities

Job summary

A leading financial institution located in Toronto, Ontario, is looking for an experienced Software Engineer. This role involves leading application architecture designs centered around Opentext tools and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Qualified candidates will have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields and over 6 years of hands-on experience with software development in an Agile environment. This position offers several benefits, including competitive rewards, diversity initiatives, and upskilling opportunities.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on software development experience.
• Experience with Customer Communications Management tools.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead application architecture design.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet requirements.
• Develop and deploy large scale applications with complex integrations.

Skills

Customer Communications Management tools (CCM)

Opentext Exstream v23.3

Java

SQL scripts

Cloud technologies (Azure, GCP)

Agile methodologies

CI/CD tools

DevOps practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related tech field

Tools

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Postgres

MSSQL

Oracle DB

Apache Kafka

Autosys

Job description

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

The Software Engineer contributes to the overall success of the Customer Communications Composition team in Canada, ensuring specific individual goals, plans, and initiatives are executed and delivered in support of the team’s strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Lead the application architecture design centered around Opentext Exstream and Opentext Communications Builder/Communications Server
• Work closely with end users, SMEs, cross functional teams and business teams to understand business needs, conduct gap analysis and requirements assessments as needed
• Actively lead and participate in customer discovery and solution discovery sessions
• Partner with Architecture on the design and integration for technology solutions
• Proactively provide guidance and recommendation on the software design
• Be involved in the full life cycle of a project, responsible for producing actionable and complete specifications, writing production quality code, and implementation
• Deliver and enhance new and current solutions and applications
• Collaborate with cross functional teams on the components to meet the performance requirements
• Collaborate to provide estimation and break down of work to enable small and frequent releases to production
• Design test sets and automate where possible, including functional and non functional testing, regression testing as well as performance testing
• Write deployment scripts and leverage tools such as the Accelerator pipeline to promote code
• Build software solutions that meet the needs of stakeholders while focusing on continually reducing technical debt
• Improve the end user experience by finding scalable solutions and addressing complex ad hoc queries
• Set up development environments necessary to build the entire solution
• Participate in merging, integrating, versioning, promoting, code through environments and version control
• Create, socialize, and implement on technical roadmaps
• Coach and mentors junior Engineers to support their career development and personal growth
• Provide expertise in the technologies and frameworks used to deliver on business objectives
• Stay ahead of latest technologies, tools, patterns, best practices and brings them to the team for consideration.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions
• Support the solution in production (as needed); triaging and problem-solving incidents to restore services in production and with follow up on root cause/permanent fixes
• Effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences
• Provide technical leadership for various team applications and processes
• Able to work with and refactor legacy code (as needed)
• Participate and run SCRUM Meetings (as needed)
• Ensure software reliability, observability and operational efficiency

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related tech field
• 6+ years of hands on software development experience with Customer Communications Management tools (CCM) in conceptualization, design, engineering, and debugging
• 6+ years of hand on software development experience with Opentext Exstream v23.3 or later and Opentext Communications Builder
• 5+ years’ experience with a modern programming language such asJava
• 5+ years’ experience developing, deploying, and maintaining large scale applications with complex integration
• 4 + years’ experience reading, writing, and running SQL scripts
• Working experience with data technologies and databases, preferably in one or more of:Postgres,MSSQL, Oracle DB, Apache NiFi, Apache Kafka, Apache ElasticSearch, comfortable working with large datasets
• Working experience with scheduling and monitoring tools such as Autosys, Splunk and Dynatrace
• Hands-on experience working with Continuous Integration (CI) build-automation tools such as Jenkins
• Experience working in an Agile environment,
• Microsoft Azure Cloud or Google Cloud GCP experience would be an asset
• Good working knowledge of design patterns and best practices
• Experience working with real-time, high availability and low latency systems
• Hands-on experience with DevOps best practices and tooling, including CI/CD, Helm, Harness, Jenkins, Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience integrating with third-party SaaS providers, libraries and SDKs
• Experience with cloud development concepts such as Docker, Kubernetes, development experience using GCP, Opentext Cloud Native and Opentext Orchestrator
• Knowledge in secure coding, authentication, authorization and compliance
• Core banking experience, especially in understanding financial systems, transaction flows, and regulatory compliance within enterprise environments
• Experience supporting production applications, ensuring stability through incident resolution, root cause analysis, and proactive issue prevention
• Passion about exploring emerging technologies such as AI/ML and can creatively apply them to solve business and technology challenges
• Valuable inputs and suggestions to enhance our engineering practices
• An Outcome-focused approach to work and problem-solving
• 3+ years’ Agile Scrum experience – demonstrated understanding of Agile concepts, agile estimations and ceremonies
• 5+ years combined experience JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, MS office suite or equivalent tools
• Experience with test preparation and test execution

Benefits

• 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 - We offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons.

Location: Canada – Ontario – Toronto

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