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Requisition ID: 229628

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

The Team

Scotiabank’s Cards Engineering team is responsible for building and supporting best-in-class end to end Cards solutions for Scotiabank’s financial products & services. The engineering team provides Backend and API solutions and capabilities that enable great customer experiences fulfilling their banking needs.

The Director of Cards Engineering leads the strategic delivery and operational support of the Bank’s card technology platforms, ensuring alignment with long-term business objectives, regulatory mandates, and enterprise architecture standards. This role is accountable for defining and championing engineering best practices that drive innovation, resilience, and scalability across the card’s ecosystem. The Director will empower a cross-functional technology team to deliver cutting-edge digital products and seamless customer experiences through agile methodologies, while cultivating a high-performing, inclusive, and collaborative team culture.

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

• Manage and mentor a high-performing team of Software Engineers, Technical Leads, and Engineering Managers.
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous learning within the engineering organization.
• Build a high-performance environment, engineering culture and implement a people strategy that attracts, retains, and develops talent.
• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion in hiring, team development, and leadership practices.
• Drive modernization initiatives, including cloud adoption, API enablement, and digital transformation of legacy card systems.
• Lead end-to-end software development lifecycle (SDLC) for card systems, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery of features and enhancements.
• Accountable for the design, development, deployment, and support of card processing systems.
• Accountable to keep the lights on (defects, monitoring, support), Business Maintenance, Visa/Amex mandates, Regulatory & Compliance projects.
• Deliver ongoing SIP Projects related to Cards.
• Ensure adherence to agile delivery practices, DevOps principles, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Ensure all card systems meet regulatory, compliance, and security standards.
• Collaborate with business and other technology partners such as Risk, Collections, Fraud, Data Analytics, Audit, and Cybersecurity teams to proactively identify and mitigate technology risks.
• Establish and monitor KPIs and SLAs for system performance, availability, and incident response.

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

• 5+ years’ experience in a leadership role managing large complex technology projects with significant technology and operational components.
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving to rapidly assess risks and issues.
• Expert knowledge of software development and design principles for highly scalable, enterprise level technology stacks.
• Expert knowledge in modern agile principles and in a range of modern technologies and frameworks including working knowledge of the full stack.
• Flexibility to adapt to new and evolving environments and a demonstrated willingness and aptitude for picking new things up quickly.
• Strong leadership and relationship building skills.
• Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to semi-technical audiences.
• Enthusiastic and passionate about customer experiences, innovation and delivering software.
• Curious mindset, love for innovation and foster collaboration.
• Love to help others thrive and work best in a dynamic team-oriented environment.
• Excellent organization, planning, and time management skills with proven ability to manage multiple competing and complex initiatives

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.
• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community egagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathonsand much more!

Work conditions: Hybrid

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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.