Senior Manager, Development - Scotiabank, Toronto

AI Summary

This Senior Manager, Development – Data Engineering role at Scotiabank in Toronto offers strategic and hands-on leadership within the Data & AI Technology team. The position is accountable for leading and delivering enterprise-scale data platform solutions, with a strong emphasis on Azure and Databricks. Key duties include driving successful delivery of complex programs, ensuring engineering excellence, and aligning with enterprise architecture. Candidates require over ten years of experience in data engineering and at least five years leading delivery teams, alongside strong expertise in Azure Databricks and other Azure data technologies.

About the Opportunity

Scotiabank is seeking a highly experienced and dedicated Senior Manager, Development to provide strategic and hands-on leadership within its dynamic Data & AI Technology team. This pivotal role focuses on the delivery of enterprise-scale data platform solutions, with a significant emphasis on leveraging Azure and Databricks technologies. The successful candidate will be instrumental in driving the successful delivery of large, complex programs, ensuring not only engineering excellence but also platform stability and strict alignment to enterprise architecture and governance standards. This position offers a unique opportunity to lead technical initiatives and foster an inclusive, high-performing culture committed to results across various data engineering projects. The scope of this role involves providing comprehensive technical leadership for Azure Databricks-based data platforms, encompassing Spark workloads and Delta Lake architectures, ensuring robust and scalable data solutions.

Leadership and Technical Delivery

As a Senior Manager, you will own the end-to-end delivery outcomes, managing scope, timelines, quality, and risk for critical enterprise-level initiatives on the Azure Databricks Data platform. This involves close partnership with Architecture, Platform, Security, and Business stakeholders to deliver scalable and resilient data solutions that meet the evolving needs of Scotiabank. A core aspect of this leadership position is to drive execution across multiple concurrent projects, effectively balancing strategic priorities with demanding delivery commitments. You will oversee the design and implementation of data ingestion, transformation, and analytics pipelines for new use cases being onboarded onto the platform, ensuring solutions align with data architecture standards, cloud best practices, and performance expectations. Furthermore, this role promotes the reuse of common patterns, frameworks, and platform capabilities across the organization, establishing and enforcing engineering best practices including code quality, CI/CD, testing, and documentation. Continuous improvement across delivery velocity, platform reliability, and operational maturity is a key focus.

Skills and Experience for Success

To excel in this Senior Manager, Development role, candidates should possess a robust background, including over ten years of experience in data engineering, software development, or data platform roles. A minimum of five years of experience leading delivery teams in a manager or senior manager capacity is essential, demonstrating proven leadership capabilities. Strong hands-on and leadership experience with Azure Databricks, including expertise in Spark, Delta Lake, and performance tuning, is critical. Deep experience with a range of Azure data technologies such as ADLS, Azure Data Factory, Synapse, and Event Hubs, or their equivalents, is also required. A strong understanding of data architecture, ETL/ELT patterns, data modeling, and data quality frameworks will be vital for success. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record delivering large-scale, multi-team, enterprise programs and solid experience managing delivery in complex, regulated environments, particularly within the financial services sector. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels, are paramount.