Technical Analyst Advisory

Scotiabank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bank in the Americas seeks a Technical Analyst Advisory to enhance risk management applications. You will provide technical leadership within the Risk Warehouse team, implementing solutions to meet business objectives. This role offers a competitive rewards package in an inclusive environment where collaboration and creativity thrive.

Benefits

Inclusive work environment

Onsite cafeteria

Comfortable dress code

Competitive total rewards package

Generous vacation and personal days

Development funding

Parental leave top-up

Qualifications

• Degree with 2-3 years experience emphasizing Risk Management for capital markets.
• Good knowledge of market risk or related experience.
• Exposure to Unix and Oracle (SQL) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support implementation of applications, providing technical designs.
• Provide expert guidance to support staff on client/server computing.
• Enhance Market Risk platform stability and performance.

Skills

Risk Management

Unix

Oracle (SQL)

Linux navigation

General systems/application support

Education

Relevant degree

Job description

Requisition ID: 228456

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

The Team

TheGlobalTrading and Risk Engineering teamis a crucial part of the Global Banking & Markets Engineering Line of Business. This is an opportunity to work in the exciting world of Capital markets and Risk Management.We are looking for a Technical Analyst Advisoryto provide highly specialized technical leadership within the Risk Warehouse team.

The Role

You and your team will engage with critical business leaders to perform analysis, design, development, and support of cost-effective, mission-critical, online, real-time financial trading, risk management, and decision support systems. You will have the opportunity to work with multiple stakeholders in the Division, introducing new technology to meet business objectives and providing technical consultation and guidance in specialized areas. This includesorganization and tracking of complex processes.

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

• Support the implementation of cost-effective applications to meet the business objectives by, providing detailed technical designs, investigating and recommending new technology. Ensure all applications developed have a high degree of integrity, reliability, and availability to meet the requirements of the online transaction processing environment.
• Provide technical expertise, guidance, advise and knowledge transfer to all support staff on all aspects of client/server computing within a multi-protocol environment. The incumbent is also required to provide recommendations on departmental standards surrounding systems architecture, application development, systems integration, testing, as well as, performing reviews and walkthroughs of all major project deliverables to ensure the quality and completeness of functionality.
• Provide production and user acceptance testing application support to the most complex technical problems on all applications that service each business unit by analyzing problems, implementing solutions and developing new procedures surrounding support.
• Continuous enhancements to the Market Risk platform stability and performance. Ensure that the stability and performance of Market Risk Monitoring Applications is continuously monitored and improved through regular enhancements to the applications set up (Risk Warehouse, Risk Limit Client, LMS, etc.) and downstream and upstream interfaces.
• Be the liaison with support and Trade Floor Risk Management teams. Ensure a high level of accountability in maintaining optimal performance and stability objectives
• Secure, control and enhance the process for the regular upgrades and security requirements set up.
• Design requirements for new products and source systems for onboarding to Risk Warehouse.
• Evaluate performance of software system and recommends changes to increase operational effectiveness.
• Document issues, monitor daily batches and inquiries from users
• Show interest in digging into issues to find root causes and raise enhancements to improve processes and prevent recurring issues
• Work independently on their responsibilities to meet deadlines and take initiative to pull in help when needed

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

• Relevant degree and 2-3 years progressive IT experience, with emphasis on Risk Management application for capital markets.
• Good knowledge of market risk or capital markets risk management or related work experience required.
• Exposure to Unix and Oracle (SQL)
• Linux skills navigating, investigating files would be an asset
• Candidates coming from a Banking or Fintech background
• General systems/application support experience

What's in it for you?

• We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success!
• We provide you with the tools and technology needed to create beautiful customer experiences.
• You'll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world
• Onsite cafeteria.
• Dress codes don't apply here, being comfortable does.
• We offer a competitive total rewards package that includes a base salary, a performance bonus, company matching programs (pension & profit sharing), generous vacation, personal & sick days, personal development funding, maternity leave top-up, parental leave 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, please click here. 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.