Director Wealth Management Technology - Scotiabank, Toronto

Position summary

The Director, International Wealth Management is accountable for developing, leading, and overseeing delivery teams who are responsible for working with cross-functional development teams and business stakeholders to define and implement business strategies, product roadmaps, service offerings and new features. This is a demanding hands-on and strategic role requiring knowledge of the financial services sector and emerging trends in the Wealth and Asset Management industry.

Day-to-day

In this role you will undertake several key responsibilities:

• Management and oversight for delivery of a portfolio of initiatives focused on client and advisor solutions, ensuring that the deliverables 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.

Qualifications

We would love to work with you if you possess the following skills and attributes:

• Visionary and strategic leadership while inspiring a team of solution architects and engineers to embrace your vision and be a best in class team responsible for implementing and maintaining Wealth Technology solutions.
• Future focused with the ability to develop roadmaps and build business cases including benefits and costs.
• Thrive in providing strong leadership and driving employee empowerment and a high degree of engagement.
• Excel in overseeing the architecture and design of solutions for the enterprise in a large and distributed environment.
• Experience delivering complex projects providing global, innovative solutions that improve the delivery of Wealth products.
• Excel in the assessment and selection of Global Wealth technologies and integration partners.
• Excel in relationship, stakeholder management and influencing and negotiation skills, effective at all levels up to senior executives.
• Efficiently perform management tasks including incident response and escalations; vendor and contract management; infrastructure management and service resiliency; and service ownership.
• Enjoy challenges of working on different types of projects from large complex to simple.
• Collaborate with various business functions to ensure Wealth Technology meets business needs.
• 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.

About the employer

Scotiabank offers a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture. What is in it for you:

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Allyship: inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations: committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone by locating, removing, and preventing barriers.
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits starting on day one.
• Dynamic Ecosystem featuring free tea and coffee, universal washrooms, and ample space for team collaboration.
• Community Engagement opportunities and belonging through various programs such as hackathons.