Engineering Lead - Scotiabank, Toronto

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Scotiabank is seeking an Engineering Lead for Global Payments Engineering in Toronto, Ontario. This role involves leading engineering teams responsible for mission-critical 24/7 payment systems, driving the technical execution of the payments roadmap, and ensuring platform stability, security, and reliability. Top requirements include a Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent experience, over two years of experience leading engineering teams, and at least five years in a software development environment with a strong technical foundation.

About the Role and Scotiabank's Payments Innovation

Scotiabank stands as an industry leader in Payments technology and innovation, consistently leveraging new tools to enhance customer experiences while safeguarding their interests. This commitment drives modernization programs aimed at offering enriched information and transparency within the rapidly evolving payments community. The Engineering Manager for Scotiabank’s Low Value Payments Technology will lead a dedicated engineering team, crucial for maintaining mission-critical 24/7 payment systems. These platforms enable customers across all segments—Retail, Small Business, and Commercial—to access a wide array of payment services through API, online, and mobile channels. This role demands a driven individual who combines strong engineering fundamentals with exceptional people leadership, platform thinking, and a passion for building high-performing teams. The successful candidate will own the technical execution of Scotiabank’s payments roadmap, ensuring unparalleled platform stability, security, and reliability in a highly regulated environment. This leadership position is vital for driving the continuous development and delivery of cutting-edge payment solutions across various technical teams.

Driving Technical Excellence and Team Leadership

As an Engineering Lead, you will provide hands-on technical leadership, actively engaging across the entire development lifecycle, from discovery and requirements gathering to testing, implementation planning, and release. This involves leading technical discussions, challenging assumptions, and ensuring that all solutions are scalable and maintainable. You will partner closely with architecture and senior technical leaders to ensure alignment with the broader technology direction of the bank. A key aspect of this role is program leadership, where you will lead delivery across a large, cross-functional engineering team, driving Scotiabank's real-time payments modernization program. Working in tandem with the product owner and the engineering team, you will translate strategic objectives into actionable plans, ensuring alignment across engineering, product, and architecture stakeholders. Effective stakeholder management is crucial, requiring you to build and maintain strong working relationships with teams across payments and adjacent domains such as fraud, core banking, and operations. For delivery excellence, you will facilitate program-level planning with architects, senior engineers, and peer leaders to define scope, sequencing, and delivery commitments. Identifying and managing risks and dependencies, escalating issues early for timely resolution, will be paramount. You will communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences, providing clear updates on progress, risks, and trade-offs, demonstrating a pragmatic and results-driven approach to execution, balancing speed, quality, and risk in a highly regulated environment. Furthermore, you will develop high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and technical excellence. This includes understanding and addressing challenges faced by engineers and business analysts across the delivery lifecycle, enabling teams to perform effectively. Coaching and mentoring engineers and emerging leaders will support their growth and reinforce strong delivery and engineering practices within the technical environment. This role is central to the development of future-proof payments systems.