Director, Engineering, Real Estate Secured Lending (RESL)

Scotiabank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Scotiabank in Toronto, Canada, seeks a Director of Insurance Engineering to lead engineering delivery for Insurance Canada platforms. You will translate strategy into executable plans, ensure timely, high-quality releases, and align priorities with business and product leaders.

You will build a high-performance team, drive DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and incident response while upholding risk controls and regulatory compliance across client‑facing digital systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Software Engineering experience.
• 5+ years of progressively increasing leadership experience in IT management.
• University degree in Computer Engineering / Applied Science / Technology or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Deliver across Canadian Banking Products Engineering platforms with stability and performance.
• Partner with business and technology teams to define and deliver robust technical solutions.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of engineering initiatives including planning, QA, deployment, and support.
• Foster a client-focused engineering culture and ensure secure, compliant operations.
• Drive DevOps, CI/CD, observability, incident response, and platform resiliency.

Skills

Software Engineering

Leadership

IT management

Education

University degree in Computer Engineering / Applied Science / Technology

Job description

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Requisition ID: 277229 Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Director, Insurance Engineering is responsible for the engineering execution and delivery of technology solutions that support the Bank’s platforms. This role ensures the timely delivery, quality, resiliency, and operational excellence of platforms that support applications, processes and Client journeys for the Insurance Canada. The Director partners closely with business and product leads to align on requirements and priorities, delivering technical solutions that support strategic business outcomes. Reporting to the Senior Director, this role plays a key part in translating vision into executable plans and ensuring those plans are delivered with a high level of quality, stability, and stakeholder alignment.

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

• Responsible for delivery across Canadian Banking Products Engineering platforms in alignment with strategic priorities, while maintaining stability, scalability, and high performance of critical applications.
• Partners with our business and technology partners to define and deliver robust technical solutions that support a best-in-class Client experiences
• Executes on the strategic roadmap, ensuring seamless transition from strategy to technical implementation, and fostering continuous feedback loops between engineering and the business.
• Leads and manages end-to-end delivery of engineering initiatives, ensuring proper planning, execution, QA, deployment, and ongoing support for all releases.
• Champions a client-focused engineering culture across the team, prioritizing value delivery, customer experience, and the secure, compliant operation of client-facing digital systems.
• Drives engineering excellence by promoting best practices in coding, architecture, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, test automation, and incident response.
• Builds a high-performance team, attracting, developing, and retaining top engineering talent. Fosters an inclusive and collaborative environment where continuous learning and innovation are encouraged.
• Drives platform resiliency and operational readiness, ensuring application reliability through comprehensive monitoring, proactive issue identification, and thorough root cause analysis for incidents.
• Understands heterogeneous infrastructure technologies, business drivers, emerging technology trends related to customer information systems – e.g. Legacy Technologies as well as Cloud, API integration, and leading transformational change incorporating modern technologies.
• Directs day-to-day activities in a manner consistent with the Bank’s risk culture and the relevant risk appetite statement and limits. Communicates the Bank’s risk culture and risk appetite statement throughout their teams
• Manages operating budgets and multi million dollar project budgets while effectively navigating financial constraints to ensure cost efficiency.
• Creates an environment in which team pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day‑to‑day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk, including but not limited to responsibilities under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and the Guidelines for Business Conduct.

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

• University degree in Computer Engineering / Applied Science / Technology, or relevant work experience
• 10+ years of Software Engineering experience
• 5+ years of progressively increasing leadership experience in Information Technology management data, platform, and system(s) management

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.

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. 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.