Technical editor Jobs in Toronto, ON

Requisition ID: 265900

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Product Onboarding team is seeking a Technical Lead who will champion the technical direction and delivery for a team managing multiple applications. This role is pivotal in providing technical leadership, mentorship, and ensuring smooth operations across the portfolio. You will play a key role in guiding technical discussions and decisions, that can range from triaging to shaping the future roadmap for the applications as required, to ensure best practices are followed to deliver high-quality solutions that align with business objectives and technology strategy. You may also be required to perform development as needed to support critical initiatives.

Is this role right for you? In this role, you will:

• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Provide technical leadership in design and implementation discussions, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards.
• Support architectural decisions, provide technical direction, and influence the long-term technical roadmap.
• Oversee production support activities, including incident resolution, root cause analysis, and preventive measures.
• Collaborate with Product stakeholders to prioritize and manage application changes.[MS1.1]
• Ensure operational excellence across applications, including performance optimization, software currency, and compliance with audit and security findings.
• Drive continuous improvement in processes, quality, and operational efficiency.
• Support Agile delivery practices and foster a culture of collaboration and accountability.
• Demonstrate leadership by setting a strong example in professionalism, engagement, and commitment to team goals, inspiring others to follow suit.
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code and unit tests by using best software development practices.
• Ensure robust logging and monitoring capabilities are implemented and maintained across all applications, enabling proactive issue detection and operational visibility.
• Tackle ambiguous, high-impact technical challenges with minimal direction and deliver strong, pragmatic solutions.
• Coach and guide junior developers through code reviews, pair programming, and clear technical feedback.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas 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.
• Champions a high performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:

• 10+ years of experience in software development and supporting complex large-scale customer facing platforms
• 5+ years experience working with MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node) in a professional environment
• 4+ years experience working in an agile framework (scrum/kanban)
• 3+ years of unit testing experience with both frontend and backend code
• 3+ years of experience working with microservice architecture
• Experience managing cloud-based applications
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new technologies, understanding concepts across diverse technology stacks
• Strong understanding of application lifecycle management, production support, and vulnerability remediation
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to make sound technical decisions
• Proven experience in mentoring and leading technical team members of differing opinions, and varying levels of experience
• Effective organization, planning, and time management skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline
• Exposure to DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket, or similar CI/CD platforms an asset
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools for production environments an asset

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 employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - 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. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.
• 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.
• Dynamic Ecosystem - Free tea & coffee, universal washrooms, and lots of space for team collaboration.
• 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.