Senior Director, Policy Management

 

 

 

Requisition ID: 270903

 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.

 

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,