Director, International Wealth Technology

Scotiabank; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefit programs

Holistic well-being focus

Job summary

Scotiabank is looking for a Director of International Wealth Technology in Dallas, Texas. This role involves overseeing various initiatives aimed at client and advisor solutions, with responsibilities including strategic project management, stakeholder engagement, and maintaining a modern technological infrastructure. Candidates should have experience in the financial sector, strong leadership skills, and an agile mindset. The position offers the chance to work in an inclusive environment, focusing on well-being and professional growth.

Qualifications

• Relevant working experience in the financial sector, particularly in Wealth and Asset Management.
• Experience in leading and coaching delivery teams with a successful track record.
• Strong organization and planning skills with a history of successful delivery.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of initiatives focused on client solutions aligning with strategic priorities.
• Collaborate with SMEs and technology teams to create and align platform roadmaps.
• Drive a customer-focused culture in delivery teams to deepen business relationships.

Skills

Agile project management

Leadership and coaching

Critical thinking

Stakeholder management

Negotiation skills

Financial services knowledge

Job description

Title: Director, International Wealth Technology

Requisition ID: 260955

Salary Range: -

Please note that the Salary Range shown is a guideline only. Salary offered may vary based on factors, including, but not limited to, the successful candidate’s relevant knowledge, skills, and experience.

Purpose

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

What You’ll Do

• Management and oversight for delivery of a portfolio of initiatives focused on client and advisor solutions, ensuring that the deliverable align with strategic priorities.
• Lead and drive a customer focused culture throughout the delivery teams to influence a client-centered design culture and to deepen relationships with business stakeholders and leverage broader bank relationships, systems, processes and knowledge.
• Understand and keep up to date with emerging technologies, trends and innovative solutions across the industry.
• Collaborate with business SMEs and technology teams to create platform roadmaps that align and assist in moving business strategies forward.
• Provide guidance to stakeholders to ensure prioritization is driven by business value.
• Define, lead and execute a cohesive strategy designed to limit technological debt and to effectively manage transition from legacy systems to modern technology platforms, maximizing operational efficiencies.
• Excellent relationship building, influencing and negotiation skills to build and maintain strong supportive relationships with stakeholders across the organization.
• Manage engagement with bank stakeholders and effectively communicate product release contents and expected product capabilities/customer journey.
• Engage with the engineering and design teams to help determine the best technical implementation methods as well as a reasonable implementation schedule to launch products on a regular basis.
• Manage communications and status reporting of ongoing initiatives, including summarizing project risks and options and facilitating prompt decisions when needed.
• Maintain an understanding of financial services markets, the competitive landscape and digital transformation trends relative to the Wealth and Asset Management sector and client/user needs and requirements.
• You possess a visionary and strategic leadership while inspiring team of solution architects and engineers to embrace your vision and be best in class team responsible for implementing and maintaining Wealth Technology solutions.
• You are future focused with the ability to develop roadmaps and build business cases including benefits and costs.
• You thrive in providing strong leadership and driving employee empowerment and a high degree of engagement.
• You excel in overseeing the architecture and design of solutions for the enterprise in a large and distributed environment.
• You have experience delivering complex projects providing global, innovative solutions that improve the delivery of Wealth products.
• You excel in the assessment and selection of Global Wealth technologies and integration partners.
• You excel in relationship, stakeholder management and influencing and negotiation skills, effective at all levels up to senior executives.
• You can efficiently perform management tasks including incident response and escalations; vendor & contract management; infrastructure management and service resiliency; and service ownership.
• You enjoy challenges of working on different types of projects (from large complex to simple).
• You collaborate with various business functions to ensure Wealth Technology meets business needs.

What You’ll Bring

• Individual projects range from Minor Enhancements ($50K+) to major strategic initiatives with $10MM+ budgets in a given year.
• Demonstrated success delivering applications in an agile environment, strong organization and planning skills with a track record of successful delivery.
• Experience in leading and coaching delivery teams, with track record of attracting and developing talent.
• Critical thinking skills: using logic and reasoning to evaluate alternative solutions, recommendations, summarize conclusions and approaches to mitigate risks.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve strategic goals.
• Ability to develop strong working relationships with business and technology partners.
• Relevant working experience in the financial sector, Wealth and Asset Management experience.
• Understanding of the regulatory environment and parameters impacting the design and delivery of products and services within the Asset Management industry.

What’s in it for you?

Scotiabank wants you to be able to bring your best self to work – and life, every day. With a focus on holistic well-being, our many flexible benefit programs are designed to help support your unique family, financial, physical, mental, and social health needs.

Scotiabank is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.