Director of Infrastructure Solution Architecture

Scotiabank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Diversity & Inclusion

Accessibility and Workplace Accommod.

Upskilling through online courses

Competitive Rewards program

Community Engagement

Job summary

Scotiabank is seeking an Infrastructure Solution Architecture leader to guide end-to-end infrastructure designs across networks, cloud, data centers, and enterprise platforms. You will translate strategy into practical designs, enforce standards, and ensure regulatory and risk controls are embedded in every solution.

Based in Toronto, you will build a high-performing team, mentor engineers, and collaborate with governance, security, and risk teams to deliver scalable, secure, and cost-effective

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading infrastructure solution architecture across diverse domains.
• Ability to translate strategy into practical, scalable designs.
• Strong governance, regulatory, risk, and compliance mindset.

Responsibilities

• Leads and oversees infrastructure solution delivery across enterprise demand.
• Builds a high-performing team through coaching and succession planning.
• Ensures designs adhere to standards, architecture patterns, and engineering services.
• Collaborates with governance, security, risk, and engineering teams to deliver compliant solutions.
• Champions cost-effective, scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure across domains.

Skills

Infrastructure architecture

Technical leadership

Enterprise governance

Stakeholder management

Job description

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

Leads and oversees Infrastructure Solution Architecture in Global Technology & Enterprise Platforms (GTEP) globally ensuring business strategies, plans and initiatives are executed / delivered in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

Leads the Infrastructure Solution Architecture team responsible for delivering end-to-end infrastructure solution architecture for programs, projects, products, and initiatives for GTEP services. The role ensures solution designs consistently leverage approved architecture patterns, standards, and certified Engineering service offerings while aligning with enterprise architecture principles, regulatory obligations, resilience expectations, and the Bank’s risk appetite.

This role is accountable for enabling consistent, scalable, secure, and service-based infrastructure solution delivery across Network, Unified Communications, Enterprise Platforms, Cloud, Data Center, Hosting, Compute, Virtualization, Server OS, Containerization, Database, Storage, and related infrastructure platforms. The role provides the delivery-facing architecture function that translates strategy, standards, and Engineering service offerings into practical solution designs for implementation.

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

• Leads and oversees the Infrastructure Solution Architecture team, providing direction, prioritization, and accountability for Infrastructure solution delivery across enterprise demand
• Builds and develops a high-performing team through coaching, mentorship, and succession planning
• Establishes clear expectations for solution architecture quality, consistency, and alignment to standards and Engineering services
• Drives a customer-focused, delivery-oriented culture supporting enterprise consumption of GTEP services
• Leads end-to-end infrastructure solution architecture for enterprise programs, projects, products, and initiatives consuming GTEP services
• Ensures solution designs are scalable, secure, resilient, cost-effective, and aligned to business and regulatory requirements
• Provides architectural oversight from intake through design, approval, and delivery alignment
• Ensures consistent integration across infrastructure domains (network, cloud, platforms, compute, storage and related services)
• Ensures all solution designs consume certified Engineering service offerings and approved architecture patterns wherever possible
• Partners with Engineering to validate service availability, feasibility, and operational readiness
• Promotes repeatable and standardized solution delivery through reuse of approved services and patterns
• Ensures deviations are identified early and governed through the ARB exception process
• Aligns solution designs to target-state architectures, standards, and platform strategies defined by Infrastructure Strategy & Architecture
• Partners with Governance & Assurance to ensure compliance with ARB requirements, standards, and control frameworks
• Ensures risks, trade-offs, and non-standard decisions are clearly documented and governed
• Provides feedback to Strategy & Architecture on gaps in standards, patterns, or Engineering services
• Works across Client Engagement, Engineering, Strategy & Architecture, Governance, Security, and Risk teams to deliver aligned and executable solutions
• Acts as escalation point for cross-domain design conflicts, dependencies, and delivery constraints
• Ensures solution architecture supports operational controls, regulatory compliance, and enterprise risk posture
• Drives consistent solution outcomes and eliminates one-off or non-standard designs across the enterprise
• Understands how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Creates an environment in which their team pursues effective and efficient operations of their 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.
• Builds a high performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment and using a coaching mindset and behaviours; communicating vision/values/business strategy; and, managing succession and development planning for the team.
• Understands how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.

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

• Leads the Infrastructure Strategy & Architecture function across multiple global infrastructure domains, including Network, Unified Communications, Enterprise Platforms, Data Center, Hosting, Compute, Virtualization, Server OS, Containerization, Database, and Storage technologies.
• Provides leadership to a team of senior architecture resources responsible for target-state architecture, standards, patterns, roadmaps, and platform strategy.
• Influences high-complexity, enterprise-wide infrastructure architecture decisions across global, matrixed technology teams.
• Supports architecture alignment across regulatory, security, resilience, risk, and enterprise governance expectations in a financial services environment.
• Provides strategic architecture input to major infrastructure transformation initiatives, platform modernization efforts, standards lifecycle decisions, and technology rationalization activities.
• Exercises strategic influence and architectural decision‑making authority with VPs, Heads, Director’s stakeholders within and outside of Technology.

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!

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, click here. 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.