Senior Director, Policy Management

Scotiabank; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Scotiabank in Dallas is seeking a Senior Director, Policy Management to lead global engineering for policy governance and data lifecycle compliance. You will drive an enterprise‑scale platform, ensuring policy obligations are centrally authored, versioned, approved, interpreted, and managed across the data lifecycle.

The role demands strong executive communication, collaboration with risk, compliance, and engineering teams, and a proven ability to influence senior stakeholders toward measurable

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, engineering, information technology, data management, or related discipline.
• 7+ years leading engineering teams and 3+ years managing managers or senior technical engineers.
• Experience building enterprise-scale governance, metadata, policy, or compliance platforms in regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of data governance, policy lifecycle management, metadata, lineage, and data products.
• Experience designing machine-readable policy models, obligation libraries, and evidence capture capabilities.
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms, lakehouse, and metadata services.

Responsibilities

• Leads and drives a customer-focused culture to deepen client relationships across the bank.
• Defines and owns the engineering strategy, roadmap, and operating model for policy management across the data lifecycle.
• Leads delivery of metadata-driven policy capabilities connecting obligations to data domains, ownership, and controls.
• Productizes policy management as reusable platform services, including policy repositories, authoring experiences, and APIs.
• Understands risk appetite and culture, ensuring activities align with Scotiabank values and conduct standards.
• Builds a high-performance environment with a coaching mindset, focusing on development planning and succession.

Skills

Executive leadership

Policy governance

Data governance

Policy lifecycle

Stakeholder management

Machine-readable policy models

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT/Data Management

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Title: Senior Director, Policy Management

Requisition ID: 270903

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

Global Banking and Markets
Global Banking and Markets (GBM) is a leading Canadian Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a growing platform in the US and Latin America, operating globally for over 100 years. Scotiabank’s strong U.S. presence provides our clients an important bridge to this key global market for trade and investment flows across the Americas and the world.
Global Banking & Markets provides a full range of investment banking, credit and risk management products and services relevant to the financing and strategic development needs of our clients. Our products include debt and equity financing, mergers & acquisitions, corporate banking, institutional equity sales, trading and research, fixed income products, derivatives, energy, foreign exchange and precious & metals. We also cross-sell the full range of wholesale products and services offered by the Scotiabank Group.
Be part of an innovative, Global Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a unique geographic footprint that puts capital to work for our clients across industries! We work together to drive ambition for every future!

Purpose

Leads and oversees Policy Management Engineering globally, ensuring business strategies, plans and initiatives are executed / delivered in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

What You'll Do

• Leads and drives a customer focused culture throughout their team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Defines and owns the engineering strategy, roadmap, and operating model for enterprise data governance policy management, enabling policies to be centrally authored, versioned, approved, interpreted, and managed across the data lifecycle.
• Leads the delivery of metadata-driven policy capabilities that connect policy obligations to data domains, ownership, classifications, lineage, critical data elements, data products, stewardship workflows, controls, exceptions, attestations, monitoring, and evidence capture.
• Productizes policy management as reusable platform services, including policy repositories, authoring experiences, workflow integrations, obligation libraries, control mappings, policy APIs, and enforcement patterns that can be adopted consistently by engineering, governance, risk, compliance, privacy, security, audit, and business teams.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Creates an environment in which their 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 behaviours; communicating vison/values/business strategy; and, managing succession and development planning for the team.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, data management, or a related discipline; advanced degree considered an asset.
• 7+ years leading engineering teams and 3+ years managing managers or senior technical engineers.
• Demonstrated experience building enterprise-scale governance, metadata, policy, control, workflow, or compliance platforms in financial services or another highly regulated environment.
• Strong understanding of data governance, policy lifecycle management, metadata management, lineage, data classification, stewardship, data products, data contracts, access controls, privacy, security, regulatory compliance, and audit evidence practices.
• Practical experience designing machine-readable policy models, obligation libraries, control mappings, exception workflows, attestations, metrics, dashboards, and evidence capture capabilities.
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms, lakehouse or large-scale analytical architectures, catalog and metadata services, workflow automation, APIs, rule engines, observability, and integration patterns.
• Proven ability to influence senior executives, architects, data owners, stewards, risk partners, compliance partners, audit stakeholders, and engineering teams to deliver measurable improvements in policy adoption, control effectiveness, data trust, and operational resilience.
• Exceptional executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complex policy, governance, platform, and risk topics into clear business impact, investment priorities, operational metrics, and decision-ready recommendations.

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.
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