Senior Manager, Technical Analysis - Scotiabank, Toronto

About the role

Global Banking and Markets Engineering (GBME) is the fast-moving, award-winning technology engine that powers Scotiabank’s Corporate, Investment Banking, and Capital Markets businesses. GBME is searching for a Senior Manager, Technical Analysis to liaison between business stakeholders and internal engineering and architect teams, ensuring solutions are developed and delivered on time, efficiently and with high quality for various projects within GBME.

The successful candidate will have a results-oriented and curious mindset with strong technical skills. You will work closely with cross functional teams, including engineers, solutions architects, and business teams to develop and implement market leading solutions that are scalable and deliver excellence, and value to our business partners and customers.

Day-to-day

In this role, you will be responsible for the following daily activities and project milestones:

• Demonstrate an informed knowledge of business functions to resolve problems and capitalize on improvement opportunities.
• Ensure business specifications/requirements documentation is accurately prepared and comprehensive to support sizing/development efforts and as input to various project documentation.
• Participate in the development of detailed project plans, the monitoring of progress against planned objectives, the financial review, and securing consensus and co-operation from users and senior management.
• Work closely across GBME technology teams during all stages of the system development life cycle and bridge the gap between business and technology sides of the solution.
• Build relationships and communicate effectively with colleagues in Global regions.
• Support production issues and handle escalations during Release cycles as needed.
• Perform ad hoc work as needed.

Who we're looking for

We would love to work with you if you bring the following technical skills and professional experience to our teams:

• 7+ years experience in capital markets technology.
• Strong understanding of trade lifecycle processes (booking, corporate actions, rate resets, cashflows).
• 3+ years leading cross-functional teams and managing end-to-end delivery of capital markets technology initiatives.
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications and drive solutions to completion.
• 5+ years working with SQL Server or similar RDBMS, including independent creation and execution of advanced queries.
• Familiarity with messaging technologies (Kafka) and exposure to full SDLC lifecycle.

About the company

Scotiabank is committed to fostering an inclusive and high-performing culture within a purpose-driven winning team. Employees enjoy comprehensive support and community engagement opportunities:

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship: Inclusive culture empowered through bias-free practices, inclusive values, and Employee Resource Groups spanning diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability, and veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations: Dedicated to locating, removing, and preventing barriers to maintain an accessible environment for everyone.
• Upskilling: Access to online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards: Program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal and sick days, and benefits starting on day one.
• Community Engagement: Opportunities for community engagement and belonging through hackathons, contests, cooking with friends, Humans of Digital, and much more.