Requisition ID: 258257
Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.
Purpose
Contributes to the overall success of the Credit Risk Technology team ensuring specific individual goals, plans, and initiatives are delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensure all activities conducted are following governing regulations, internal policies and procedures
Accountability
- Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
- Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications
- Leverage industry best practices design, test, implement and support a solution
- Support the bank’s counterparty credit risk technology stack to ensure that calculations and reports are accurate and timely.
- Propose, design, and implement technology solutions to address business needs and support trading and reporting activities.
- Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
- Actively pursue effective and efficient operations in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls.
- Champions a high-performance culture and contributes to an inclusive work environment.
- Test strategy & execution — Design comprehensive test strategies and lead end-to-end testing efforts, ensuring coverage across functional, regression, and integration scenarios with minimal defect leakage.
- Currency & upgrade management — Address technical currency by upgrading core components including MQ, Kafka, Airflow, Python, and Java.
- Production support — Triage and resolve security vulnerabilities identified through Check Marx scans and production issues, while maintaining ongoing enhancement sprint cycles with minimal disruption
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
- Hands‑on experience with Python with strong working knowledge of core Python libraries including NumPy, SciPy, and Pandas.
- Ability to analyze complex business requirements and translate them into detailed technical specifications to design or enhance sophisticated software components and enterprise applications.
- 5+ years of experience in Java and React, with the ability to contribute to multi‑stack development when required.
- 2+ years of experience working with cloud platforms such as Azure, GCP, or AWS.
- 5+ years of experience in Unix/Linux environments, with proficiency in shell scripting and troubleshooting on Linux-based application servers.
- 5+ years of hands‑on experience with relational databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, or Sybase, including query optimization and performance tuning.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with team members, stakeholders, and cross‑functional partners.
- Nice-to-have skills:
- Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka, MQ, or JMS.
- Experience with RiskWatch and strong knowledge of Capital Markets risk domains, including Counterparty Credit Risk and Market Risk.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Additional context: Web application experience is an asset; however, we are primarily seeking a strong senior developer to enhance the performance of a Counterparty Credit Risk application and to parallelize batch workflows using Airflow and incremental aggregation
What's in it for you?
- 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 are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employees to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
- Accessibility - We value the unique skills and experiences everyone brings to the Bank and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove, and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment.
- Remote-friendly work environment will provide you with the flexibility to perform at your best.
- 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
Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto
Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.
At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.