Posted: June 17, 2026
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Scotiabank is seeking a Senior Manager Engineering, Insurance Core & Reporting in Toronto, Ontario, with a focus on International Banking. This leadership role involves overseeing Insurance and Reporting technologies, ensuring business strategies and initiatives comply with regulations. Key responsibilities include managing a team, driving a customer-focused culture, and supporting existing production systems. Top requirements include 10+ years of IT leadership, 5+ years in the insurance industry, strong project management skills, and experience with Agile Scrum/Kanban frameworks and Java technical skills.
As a Senior Manager Engineering, Insurance Core & Reporting at Scotiabank, you will play a pivotal role in leading and overseeing crucial Insurance and Reporting technologies within International Banking. This position is central to ensuring that all business strategies, plans, and initiatives are executed and delivered in strict compliance with governing regulations, internal policies, and established procedures. A core aspect of this role is to lead and drive a customer-focused culture throughout your team, aiming to deepen client relationships and effectively leverage broader Bank relationships, systems, and knowledge.
You will be responsible for managing your team, including both direct and indirect reports, across various critical areas such as project scheduling, providing technical direction, future planning, and developing standard development practices. This involves not only managing department and project recruitment efforts but also identifying essential training requirements, focusing on staff retention, and evaluating performance. You will ensure that proper support procedures and processes are firmly in place to sustain the various existing production systems, while also championing quality improvement activities for the entire department. Functioning independently, you will be accountable for managing assigned project and department budgets, working closely with customers, Business Analysts, and team members to understand complex business requirements that drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions. Meeting scheduled milestones is paramount to ensure project objectives are met promptly, aligning with the IT Technology Roadmap and demonstrating an in-depth understanding of principles, theories, and practices for managing software projects and programs using Agile Scrum and Kanban frameworks.
To succeed in this challenging role, candidates must possess a robust set of skills and extensive technical knowledge. Essential qualifications include over 10 years of progressive IT experience, with at least 5 years dedicated to leading or supervising teams of 10 or more members. Significant experience working within the insurance industries for over 5 years is also a critical requirement, providing invaluable context for the core business operations. Candidates should be highly proficient in Agile methodologies, having worked in Agile labs or extensively used Agile Scrum and Kanban frameworks, demonstrating a clear understanding of modern project delivery. Strong project management skills are indispensable, enabling the effective managing of concurrent tasks and initiatives across multiple systems.
The role demands advanced expertise in complex business and technical processes and their practical application within a large financial institution. Exceptional written and oral communication skills are crucial for collaborating with various stakeholders, alongside strong leadership, mentoring, coaching, and motivational skills to inspire and develop the team. Vendor management skills, including experience in negotiating contractual terms and managing offshore development teams, are also highly valued. From a technical perspective, proficiency in Java, including Spring, Spring Boot, JSP, and JSF, is essential. Furthermore, expertise in JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, and SQL is required. Familiarity with microservice architecture and 12-Factor App concepts, knowledge of Data Engineering concepts, and familiarity with REST APIs, Design Patterns, AIX, Linux, WebSphere, and SQL Server will be significant assets, especially given the continuous evolution of our technical systems. Experience with Ingenium or similar back-end insurance systems would also be a nice-to-have advantage.
Scotiabank is committed to building a high-performance environment and implementing a comprehensive people strategy that attracts, retains, develops, and motivates its teams. As a Senior Manager, you will play a key part in fostering an inclusive work environment by adopting a coaching mindset and behaviours, effectively communicating the Bank's vision, values, and business strategy. This includes actively managing succession and development planning for your team members, ensuring continuous growth and career progression within the organisation. You will create an environment where your team pursues effective and efficient operations 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. This role offers an opportunity to work with a highly enthusiastic team dedicated to ensuring the Bank continues to operate effectively to deliver key business services to our clients, contributing significantly to our overarching culture and success.
