Director, Derivatives Technology Engineering

 

 

 

Requisition ID: 193764

 Salary Range: 174,700.00 - 286,000.00 

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.

 

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:

 

The Director, Engineering, will be responsible for the strategic direction, leadership and oversight of the Capital Market Derivatives Technology team with the focus of modernization of application portfolio and delivery of solutions to support the business needs globally.   
You will need to manage all technology aspects within the assigned portfolio and develop technology strategy in collaboration of business stakeholder and mitigates risk through cost effective solutions and efficient operations of your respective area.   
You will be responsible for managing a team of software engineers engaged in the design, development, and delivery of efficient and cost-effective technical solutions across a mix of in-house and vendor platforms to resolve complex, multi-dimensional business problems.  You will have the opportunity to work with talent individuals from cross functional teams and be responsible to build and implement market leading solutions that are scalable, in high quality, with adequate and effective controls to meet obligations required for compliance and operational risk and add value to our business partners and customers.

We are looking for a results-oriented, creative, highly motivated individual with a curious mindset, strong technical and leadership skills, deliver excellence, passionate for challenges and want to contribute to the success of the Bank.
 

Position Highlights:

 

The Fixed Income & Derivatives Technology team is a crucial part of the Global Technologies Applications Group that support the Global Banking and Market business. This is an opportunity to work in the fast-moving and exciting world of Capital markets. We are looking for an energetic and strategic thought leader with strong technical background to join this dynamic team and take on a challenging and exciting role.

 

What You’ll Do:

 

• Provides strategic thought leadership in the delivery of strategies and solutions that best support business objectives and needs.  Apply modern and new technologies and practices to transform current platforms to deliver new and legacy requirements while improve security, availability, reliability and cost of delivery & support of overall solutions.
• Responsible for the design, architecture and the successful implementation of effective and quality solutions. Accountable for delivery according to pre agreed timelines and budgetary constraints. 
• Effectively manage a team of technical professional including software engineers and DevOps by setting performance expectations, monitoring performance and providing technical guidance and coaching.   
• Champions a customer focused and high performing culture and implements strategy to attract, retain, develop, and motivate the team through purposeful leadership and by fostering an inclusive culture.
• Communicates vision/values/business strategy. Collaborates with multiple technology groups and vendors to ensure that the application, integrations, infrastructure and architectures are designed to meet evolving business requirements, and the standards for reliability, scalability, performance and availability that aligns with the Bank’s T