Senior Manager Application Development

Requisition ID: 253440

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

The Team

Scotiabank’s Insights and Analytics group is responsible for prototyping, automating, and producing dashboards and analyses to monitor the risk posture of assets and applications that make up the Bank’s information systems. In addition, the group supports operational teams’ efforts to remediate assets and applications by understanding the data, data symptomology and operational procedures. The team produces dashboards under well-defined service level agreements with the stakeholders, striving to be a valuable business partner to operations.

The Role

The Senior Manager will lead the operational team in ongoing steady state production, lead the sourcing and ingestion of subject matter expertise to understand the environment, and continually improve and evolve the programs as the bank, the tooling, the telemetry and the focus changes over time. The Senior Manager will direct a team of developers to maintain steady state operations and take the programs to the next level with Power BI, Python, automation of data sources and multiple views of the environments.

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

• Be part of a dynamic team in the increasingly important field of data management, aggregation, mining and messaging.
• Understand the challenges around ETL processes and the disparity that exists between disparate data sources.
• Appreciate and succeed in a controlled DevOps environment and closely governed and regulated program.
• Be passionate about data and what they mean, what can be gleaned and what cannot be inferred.
• Understand IT operations and communicate in an effective manner with IT professionals from mainframe computing to workstations, servers, printers and cameras.
• Be a team player, yet able to work alone.
• Be a self starter, a problem solver, curious with the ability to think at a high level and investigate the details when necessary.

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

• Advanced communication (verbal/written/presentation) skills.
• 7+ years of hands-on technical experience developing and extending both off the shelf and custom inhouse developed applications
• 3+ years of experience managing, coaching and training developers and applications support personnel in an IT operational capacity
• Effective project planning and time management skills to ensure multiple tasks and project streams are delivered on time
• The ability to generate reports and tailor communication strategies for various levels of technical staff, executive management, and business clients.
• Experience in requirement gathering from the business and prepare the Requirement documents (BRD) for the technical team.
• Experience within an Agile development environment.
• Experience in testing and validating any Business Intelligence and associated applications preferably built using Microsoft stack – Power BI, SSRS, SSIS, etc.,
• Experience in Change management process with CI/CD tools – Azure DevOps is preferred.
• Knowledge in Data warehousing concepts is preferred.

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 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.
• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, Humans of Digital and much more!

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.