Engineering Physicist

Scotiabank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a Director of Resilience Engineering in Toronto, ON. The role involves developing and managing resilience capabilities, driving strategic efforts, and leading engineering teams. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in resilience practices, strong analytical skills, and the ability to influence key stakeholders. This permanent, full-time position offers a competitive hourly wage of $26 to $75, with an on-site work arrangement.

Qualifications

• Experience leading high-performing engineering teams.
• Strong knowledge of resilience engineering practices.
• Ability to translate complex data into actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Drive strategic roadmap for resilience engineering.
• Lead development of resilience and chaos testing frameworks.
• Build relationships with senior technology stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Data Analysis

Engineering Excellence

Communication Skills

Tools

SQL

Python

Data Visualization Platforms

Observability/AIOps Systems

Job description

Director, Resilience Engineering

Posted on January 23, 2026 by Scotiabank

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high‑performing culture. As the Director, Resilience Engineering, you contribute to the global success of the Resilience Engineering function by designing, building, and continuously improving the bank’s resilience capabilities. You lead an engineering team responsible for delivering resilience patterns, automation, resilience and chaos testing frameworks, observability capabilities, and insight‑driven improvements that enhance the stability and reliability of technology services. You ensure that all activities are executed in alignment with enterprise standards, architectural requirements, regulatory expectations, and the bank’s risk culture. You champion engineering excellence, innovation, and high performance across global technology teams.

In this role, you will:

Leadership & Strategy

Champion a customer‑focused, engineering‑driven culture that strengthens resilience across the bank’s global technology organization. Define and drive the strategic roadmap for resilience engineering capabilities, in alignment with enterprise architecture, operational resilience, information security, and technology risk. Provide thought leadership on modern resilience engineering practices, including resilience‑by‑design, failure‑mode analysis, SRE principles, chaos engineering, and automated resilience validation.

Engineering & Delivery

Lead the development, implementation, and lifecycle management of resilience engineering capabilities, including resilience and chaos testing automation, common tooling for resilience, fault injection frameworks and recovery automation, and observability and telemetry capabilities that support resilience insights. Partner with platform and application teams globally to embed resilience into architecture, software design, and operational practices. Drive enterprise adoption of resilience tooling, telemetry pipelines, resilience libraries, and engineering accelerators.

Data Analytics & Operational Insights

Leverage operational data (logs, metrics, traces, change data, incident patterns, capacity telemetry, SLO/SLA performance) to identify leading indicators of instability and proactively reduce incidents. Translate complex operational data into meaningful insights, engineering backlogs, and actionable recommendations that improve system availability and resilience. Use analytical tooling (e.g., SQL, Python, data visualization platforms, observability/AIOps systems) to derive trends, correlations, and prioritized areas of engineering focus. Champion a culture of insight‑driven engineering, ensuring teams use data effectively to inform decisions, drive proactivity, and validate resilience controls.

Governance, Oversight & Risk Management

Provide engineering perspectives and evidence to support resilience‑related policy, standard, and framework updates. Identify technology resilience gaps through technical reviews, test results, telemetry analysis, and incident post‑mortems. Lead engineering workstreams to address them. Partner with Operational Resilience, Enterprise Architecture, Information Security & Controls, and Technology Risk to drive an integrated resilience posture. Support internal and external audits by providing technical documentation, test artifacts, architectural diagrams, and resilience evidence.

Stakeholder & Executive Engagement

Build strong relationships with senior technology stakeholders (SVPs, VPs, platform owners, engineering leaders) and influence adoption of resilience engineering practices. Clearly articulate complex engineering concepts and resilience risks to non‑technical audiences, enabling informed decision making. Lead resilience engineering forums, communities of practice, and cross‑functional working groups.

People Leadership

Lead and develop high‑performing engineering teams, fostering craftsmanship.

• Location: Toronto, ON
• Work location: On site
• Salary: $26.00 to $75.00 per hour
• Terms of employment: Permanent employment Full time
• Starts as soon as possible
• Source: CareerBeacon #2701353

Advertised until

2026-02-22