Value Enablement Lead - Scotiabank, Toronto

Position Summary

Join a purpose-driven and high-performing team at Scotiabank, committed to delivering results within an inclusive culture. The Value Enablement Lead plays a pivotal role in partnering with Domain Leadership, Product, and Engineering teams to significantly improve how value flows across Canadian Banking Engineering. This critical position bridges strategic vision with practical execution, translating enterprise value enablement principles into measurable, actionable practices at both the team and portfolio levels.

Combining hands-on coaching with portfolio-level coordination, this role enables teams to enhance flow, predictability, and continuous learning. You will identify systemic constraints and collaborate with leadership to address structural barriers, fostering self-sufficiency, ongoing improvement, and outcome-driven delivery across various domains within Scotiabank.

Your Impact

As a Value Enablement Lead, you will drive significant improvement and foster a culture of learning and high performance. Your contributions will directly impact the efficiency and effectiveness of our engineering processes. In this role, you will:

• Partner with Leaders to implement flow-based operating rhythms (e.g., prioritization forums, outcome reviews, dependency alignment).
• Translate enterprise value enablement strategy into actionable portfolio and team-level practices.
• Identify systemic constraints and design structural or process-level experiments with leadership.
• Facilitate inter-domain alignment to improve coordination between business and technology teams.
• Report insights, progress, and support improvement opportunities with senior leadership.
• Coach Product Owners, Engineering Managers, Delivery Leads, and squads on adaptive planning, flow optimization, team orientation, and outcome-based delivery.
• Facilitate planning, review, and improvement sessions focused on learning and measurable outcomes.
• Use delivery data (e.g., cycle time, throughput, predictability, quality trends, engagement metrics) to guide improvement.
• Support teams in visualizing and managing work using appropriate tooling (e.g., Jira, Confluence).
• Cultivate psychological safety, transparency, and a continuous learning culture.
• Coordinate and mentor Delivery practitioners to ensure consistent practices.
• Create shared learning loops across domains to elevate capability.
• Ensure alignment to enterprise value enablement principles.

Who We're Looking For

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional who can demonstrate a deep understanding of value enablement and continuous improvement methodologies. The ideal candidate will possess a blend of technical acumen, leadership capabilities, and strong interpersonal skills to drive change across diverse teams. We value practical application over dogma, focusing on creating tangible value and understanding the 'why' behind every practice.

You will have extensive experience connecting strategy to delivery, adept at mapping outcomes to actors, features, impacts, and results. Your ability to use visual models and maps to foster a common understanding of complex relationships between features, systems, products, and technologies is crucial. You should be comfortable helping others grasp cause and effect by connecting disparate elements into a coherent whole. Furthermore, you will have experience enabling teams and larger groups to own their way of working through visual, flow-based techniques, leading multi-team efforts through coordinated delivery flow, and guiding groups in identifying and resolving systemic impediments to speed up and improve through evidence.

Your background should include introducing practices that merge typical IT specializations and applying feedback-driven practices that encourage high degrees of teamwork and psychological safety. You will have experience connecting work to measurable outcomes, prioritizing based on value, and using both qualitative discovery and quantitative validation to learn what works before scaling. Guiding teams to build small, measure impact, and adapt using stakeholder and customer feedback to steer delivery towards outcomes is key.

More critical than expertise in any particular set of methods or frameworks are the following 'power skills' that serve as the true foundation for impact in this role:

• Learner–teacher: learns to teach; enables others to master the craft of product, value, and tech delivery.
• Thrives in ambiguity: excels in uncertainty and leads others through it toward emergent solutions.
• Highly collaborative: builds trust across domains and levels; facilitates environments of co-creation.
• Authentic and transparent: helps others; models productive conflict; creates an environment of psychological safety.
• Passionate: outcome-driven, relentless about flow and value; can inspire others to raise the bar.
• Professionally creative: balances rigour with adaptability; brings fresh thinking without sacrificing discipline.

To succeed in this role, you will also need:

• University degree in Business, Technology, or Organizational Design.
• 7–10 years of experience in delivery transformation, product development, or continuous improvement roles.
• Solid understanding of lean and flow-based delivery models.
• Skilled in group facilitation, metrics interpretation, and leadership coaching.
• Experience in large, matrixed financial or technology organizations preferred.
• Solid consulting skills - strategic thinking, tactical execution, pragmatism, professional deliverable creation.

About Scotiabank

Join Scotiabank, a leading financial institution committed to fostering an inclusive and high-performing culture. We are dedicated to creating an environment where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values. Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship is reflected in our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability, and veterans, offering opportunities for community engagement and belonging.

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank. We are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone, continuously working to locate, remove, and prevent barriers. Explore Scotiabank jobs and careers to be part of a team that supports your growth and well-being. We offer:

• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days, and benefits will start on day one.
• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs.