Senior Director, EA Engineering Enablement

Scotiabank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyshi

Accessibility accommodations

Tuition assistance

Competitive rewards program

Job summary

Scotiabank seeks a Senior Director to lead Enterprise Architecture, Engineering Governance & Enablement, unifying SDLC and automation across the bank. You will drive automated governance, policy-as-code, and risk-aligned standards, partnering with data, AI, security, and risk teams to enable scalable innovation.

You will interact with regulators and senior leaders to ensure compliance with global expectations, while fostering a high-performance, inclusive team culture.

Qualifications

• 15–20+ years of technology leadership in large financial institutions.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Ownership of platforms spanning architecture governance, engineering automation, and regulatory control frameworks.
• Strong understanding of distributed data systems, cloud data ecosystems, and AI systems.
• Experience partnering with Engineering, Architecture, Security, Governance, and AI stakeholders in regulated enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a multi-year automated governance strategy for architecture-related approval processes and standards.
• Define and implement engineering policies and standards, embedding governance into CI/CD pipelines as Policy-as-Code.
• Own a unified SDLC across the Bank and establish enterprise-grade quality gates with automated validation.
• Partner with Risk, Audit, and executives to meet evolving regulatory expectations in Canada, the US, and internationally.
• Establish enterprise testing principles and automation standards across all environments.
• Collaborate with Data and AI teams to enable agentic AI innovations within architectural guardrails.
• Engage regulators, auditors, and examiners on related topics and ensure risk culture alignment.

Job description

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

The Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture, Engineering Governance & Enablement is a senior enterprise leadership role responsible for the definition, governance, and automation of engineering standards and policies across the Bank. This role focuses on the \"how\" of technology delivery—ensuring that software development life cycle (SDLC) and architectural policies and standards are consistently applied to drive scalability, reliability, security, and regulatory compliance at scale. By bridging the gap between high-level architecture and engineering execution, the leader enables rapid innovation through the rollout of automated governance and streaming capabilities. By transitioning governance from manual oversight to an automated, streamlined model, the goal is to help optimize the bank's total cost of ownership (TCO) and capital efficiency while enabling rapid innovation across distributed engineering teams.

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

• Architecture Engineering Governance & Enablement
  
  
  
  • Responsible for implementing a multi-year strategy for an automated, streamlined governance approach for architecture-related approval processes, including technology standards and architecture review board
  
  
  • Working closely with other enterprise platform teams, define and implement engineering policies and standards, ensuring governance is embedded directly into CI/CD pipelines as Policy-as-Code.
  
  
  
  


• Global Ownership for SDLC & Engineering Standards
  
  
  
  • Responsible for the definition, socialization, and mandatory adoption of a unified SDLC across the Bank.
  
  
  • Establish and govern enterprise-grade quality gates and automated validation requirements to ensure software resilience.
  
  
  • Partner with Risk and Audit executives to ensure technical standards meet evolving global regulatory expectations across Canada, the US, and International Banking.
  
  
  
  


• Accountable for establishing and governing enterprise-wide testing standards across all Lines of Business (LOBs), ensuring consistent, high-quality validation of technology solutions across all environments from development through production.


• Setting enterprise testing principles, standards, and reference architecture, including automation standards in pipelines.


• Partnering with Data and AI teams to Engineer Agentic AI Innovations
  
  
  
  • Partners closely with Data & AI leadership and engineering teams to enable the safe, scalable adoption of agentic AI patterns across the enterprise, ensuring innovation is delivered within clear architectural, engineering, and risk guardrails.
  
  
  
  


• Participate in interactions with regulators, auditors, and examiners globally for required discussions on related topics.


• Understand and manage the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture in architectural decisions, ensuring compliance with operational and conduct risk.


• Partner with CIOs and LOB leaders to influence and embed enterprise standards into multi-million-dollar technology roadmaps


• Creates an environment in which the 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 behaviors; communicating vison/values/business strategy; and, managing succession and development planning for the team.

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

• Minimum 15-20+ years of progressive technology leadership in large, complex financial institutions in leadership roles.


• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.


• Proven ownership of platforms and processes spanning architecture governance, engineering automation, and regulatory control frameworks


• Strong understanding of distributed data systems, cloud data ecosystems, and the role of metadata and semantics in AI systems.


• Experience partnering with Engineering, Architecture, Security, Governance, and AI stakeholders in regulated enterprise environments.


• Ability to translate complex platform capabilities into clear product strategy, roadmaps, and executive-aligned outcomes.

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.

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