Programmer Analyst Advisory

Scotiabank; Old Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Technical Navigator and Developer to join their hybrid team. This role involves overseeing critical applications, ensuring performance, and optimizing system reliability. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders. You will lead initiatives, coach teams, and drive continuous improvement while ensuring seamless operations. This dynamic environment values diversity and offers opportunities for professional growth, making it an exciting place to advance your career.

Benefits

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship

Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations

Upskilling through online courses

Competitive Rewards program

Flexible vacation

Free tea & coffee

Community Engagement opportunities

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of development experience required.
• Strong technical expertise with problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee critical applications for Investment Platform ensuring stability and performance.
• Provide hands-on troubleshooting and optimize system reliability.

Skills

Unix

Shell Scripting

Oracle PL/SQL

DB2

GIT

AWK

SED

Java

Perl

Cloud experience (PCF, GCP, AWS, Azure)

JDK 17

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Job description

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

This is a hybrid Technical Navigator and Developer role.

In this role, you will oversee critical applications for Investment Platform, ensuring stability, performance, and rapid incident resolution. You’ll provide hands-on troubleshooting, implement fixes, and optimize system reliability, coordinating with cross-functional teams to address and resolve issues effectively. This role includes participation in an on-call pager rotation, where you’ll respond to incidents after hours as needed to minimize downtime and ensure seamless operations. The ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise with problem-solving and communication skills, serving as a key technical lead liaison to stakeholders and business partners, continuously improving production support processes.

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

• Show proven ability to deliver projects using Agile methodologies and lean approach techniques.
• Communicate proactively with all stakeholders to provide encouragement, identify problems, create solutions, and implement efficiency improvements.
• Establish priorities, standards, and strategies consistent with technology roadmap, business goals and economic viability.
• Work with application owners to help understand Software Currency needs, and technical constraints to establish the scope of the project and define and deliver complex features.
• Understand business requirements & Bank standards and translate them into technical guidelines for development.
• Lead Software Currency initiatives and manage diverse projects by providing guidance to development teams around intricacies and complexities of zero-based development.
• Provide input to the continuous improvement of processes and adopting latest technologies and methodologies.
• Coach for effective teamwork, communication, collaboration, and commitment across groups to help create an agile culture in the team.
• Coach teams to re-build or build from scratch applications based on latest technology.
• Meet product owners, project sponsors, project stakeholders on a regular basis and help technical teams to identify, define, and specify solutions.

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

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required.
• 3-5 years of development experience required.
• Technical Proficiency in:

Must have:

• Unix
• Shell Scripting
• AWK
• SED
• Oracle PL/SQL
• DB2
• GIT

Nice to have:

• Cloud experience – PCF, GCP, AWS, Azure
• JDK 17 experience
• Java
• Perl

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.
• 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.
• 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 such as hackathons, contests, cooking with friends, Humans of Digital and much more!

Working location condition: Hybrid

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

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 during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. 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.