Technical Specialist Advisory - Scotiabank, Toronto

About this opportunity

Scotiabank's Global Banking and Markets Engineering (GBME) is seeking a Technical Specialist Advisory to join their award-winning technology engine. This pivotal role involves bridging the gap between business stakeholders and internal engineering and architect teams, ensuring the efficient development and delivery of high-quality technical solutions for diverse projects within GBME. The successful candidate will possess a results-oriented and curious mindset, combined with strong technical skills, to collaborate effectively across various teams.

Key duties

As a Technical Specialist Advisory, you will play a crucial role in the development lifecycle, contributing to market-leading solutions that deliver excellence and value to Scotiabank's business partners and customers. Your responsibilities will include:

• Demonstrating an informed knowledge of business functions to resolve problems and capitalize on improvement opportunities.
• Ensuring business specifications and requirements documentation is accurately prepared and comprehensive to support sizing and development efforts.
• Developing and delivering Business Requirements Documents, Design Documents, Use Cases, and Process Models as required.
• Participating in the development of detailed project plans, monitoring progress against planned objectives, and conducting financial reviews.
• Working closely across GBME technology teams during all stages of the system development life cycle and bridging the gap between business and technology.
• Liaising between the business community and the IT organisation to provide technical solutions that meet user needs.
• Building relationships and communicating effectively with colleagues in Global regions.
• Supporting production issues and handling escalations during Release cycles as needed.

Requirements

To thrive in this Technical Specialist Advisory role at Scotiabank, candidates should demonstrate a robust blend of technical expertise, collaboration skills, and a strong understanding of financial market operations.

Essential Experience and Skills:

• Experience in UX-focused product mindset, with hands-on experience creating wireframes, low-/high-fidelity prototypes, and workflow mockups.
• Proven ability to validate requirements and enhance usability for trading, sales, and operations users.
• Experience serving in Scrum Master and Agile delivery roles, facilitating Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Reviews, and Retrospectives, managing backlogs, removing impediments, and ensuring predictable delivery aligned with business priorities.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to drive incremental delivery and rapid feedback loops, operating effectively in high-pressure trading environments.
• Proven ability to support Trading and Sales desks as a trusted technology and product partner.
• Hands-on experience resolving trade booking issues, pricing discrepancies, workflow gaps, and time-sensitive production incidents.
• Experience in capturing business requirements for derivatives trading applications, including trade capture and lifecycle events, and supporting UAT planning, test execution, and defect triage.
• Experience working across multiple teams and functions to ensure alignment.
• 3+ years practical experience in designing UI for web-based and mobile applications.
• Experience working with all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Proficiency with UI prototyping tools such as Figma.
• Ability to adapt quickly to new processes and standards, with a strong commitment to providing exceptional customer service.
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications and deliver working results.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• A recognized undergraduate degree or diploma in business administration, computer science, or a related field.
• Excellent working experience of Microsoft suite of products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project).

Preferred Qualifications:

• An understanding of the Bank’s application system and software from a business/technical viewpoint to assess the impact of development and/or changes to the overall data processing environment.
• Experience managing projects that span change in front, middle, or back-office systems and teams.
• Experience with UI design.
• Working knowledge of databases such as SQL Server and Unix tools is a nice-to-have.

Who you'll work with

You will be an integral part of Scotiabank's Global Banking and Markets Engineering (GBME) team, collaborating closely with a diverse group of professionals. This includes engineers, solutions architects, and various business teams across the organisation. The role demands strong interpersonal and collaboration skills as you will be liaising between the business community and the IT organisation, fostering effective communication and building relationships with colleagues in global regions. You will contribute to an inclusive and high-performing culture, committed to delivering results.

What's in it for you?

Scotiabank is dedicated to fostering an inclusive and supportive environment for its employees. Joining the Scotiabank careers team means access to a comprehensive benefits package and a culture that values growth and community.

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship: We strive to create an 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. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employees to learn, grow, and participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability, and veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations: We value the unique skills and experiences everyone brings to the Bank and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove, and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.
• Upskilling: Opportunities through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards program: Including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days, and benefits that start on day one.
• Community Engagement: Opportunities for community engagement and belonging with various programs such as hackathons, contests, cooking with friends, Humans of Digital, and much more.