Technical Product Manager (temporary full time position)

Scotiabank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive work environment

Growth opportunities

Competitive rewards package

Job summary

Scotiabank is seeking a Technical Product Manager for a temporary full-time position in Toronto. This role involves overseeing the product lifecycle of technology products within Cloud Platform Engineering Enablement. Responsibilities include collaborating with engineering teams to prioritize features, defining product vision, and ensuring operational excellence. Candidates should have experience in customer authentication and product development, with a focus on teamwork and delivering customer experiences. A range of benefits including a competitive rewards package is offered.

Qualifications

• Previous work in customer authentication at large enterprises.
• Experience in product development and collaboration with IT teams.
• Enthusiasm for shared learning and team dynamics.

Responsibilities

• Engage with teams to prioritize product features.
• Define product strategy and roadmap.
• Lead backlog grooming and sprint planning sessions.

Skills

Attention to detail

Product development

Communication skills

Customer experience focus

Dynamic team orientation

Job description

Technical Product Manager (temporary full time position)

Requisition ID: 261119

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

The Role

As a Technical Product Manager within Cloud Platform Engineering Enablement, your primary responsibility is for planning and adoption of the technology products. This includes managing the technology product throughout the product lifecycle, gathering and prioritizing product and user requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with engineering to deliver technology products that enable success for digital solutions. Leveraging your ability to understand and articulate technology trends and needs for modern applications at Scotiabank, you will work with business stakeholders, principle product managers, engineering, delivery, and technology operations to create effective technology products.

The Technology Product Management team within Cloud Platform Engineering Enablement is responsible for technology products that can be broadly reused across Scotiabank. Technology products are digital platforms, services and frameworks that provide solution teams with the capabilities they need to deliver digital solutions for Scotiabank’s business products. These technology products include a modern cloud and DevOps platform, internal developer portal, etc. The focus of this Technical Product Manager role will be our internal DevOps platform.

Responsibilities

• Engage with engineering and architecture teams across Cloud Platform Engineering Enablement and Scotiabank to gather and prioritize product features.
• Research and maintain expert knowledge of your technology product, how internally focused capabilities operate, and product offerings that inform buy, build, partner decisioning.
• Define the technology product’s strategy and roadmap.
• Deliver a product backlog with well‑defined and prioritized features with corresponding justification (the what and the why).
• Drive engineering prioritization through leadership and participation in sprint planning and balancing of competing priorities for the engineering team.
• Lead backlog grooming, sprint planning and sprint review sessions with engineering, provide sufficient details/specifications to the EPIC/User Stories and make them ready for engineering work.
• Lead the development of business cases to allocate required funding and time, with support from Cloud Platform Engineering Enablement Engineering and Operations.
• Develop core positioning and messaging for the technology product.
• Organize and lead product demos to users and brief & train the engagement managers about the products they manage.
• Conduct day‑to‑day activities in a manner consistent with our risk culture and the relevant risk appetite statement and limits.
• Actively pursue effective and efficient operations of your area in accordance with Scotiabank’s values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of business controls to meet obligations with respect to risk and compliance.
• Champion a high‑performance environment and contribute to an inclusive work environment.

Qualifications

• Previous work experience in customer authentication at large enterprises delivering business technology solutions (SaaS integration to IAM solutions such as Auth0/Okta is a plus).
• Previous work experience in product development and working with IT and business teams.
• Strong attention to detail with an unshakeable focus on results.
• Enthusiasm for helping others thrive and working best in a dynamic, team‑oriented environment.
• Eagerness to share, learn and realize that there is still lots to learn.
• Passion for customer experiences, innovation and delivering software.
• Skilled at communicating information and ideas at the right time and with the right medium.

Benefits

• Inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity and curiosity and celebrates success.
• Tools and technology to create meaningful customer experiences.
• Opportunity to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders from top technology companies worldwide.
• Growth opportunities: we hire for talent— not just a job—so you can grow with us.
• Dress code does not apply: being comfortable does.
• Access to thousands of online and in‑person courses to hone current skills or learn new ones.
• A competitive rewards package including base salary, performance bonus, company matching pension and profit‑sharing, paid vacation, personal & sick days, medical, vision, and dental.

Location: 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.