Technical Lead

Requisition ID: 254068

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

The Global Wealth Engineering client technology team is transforming the digital experience for its clients. The team partners and works closely with the Scotia Digital team to bring world-class digital experiences for all Scotia Wealth Management channels. The team plays a key role to help investor manage their investments and reach their financial goals.

Global Wealth Engineering Technology Team is looking for an energetic and results-oriented Technical Lead to join our team to help build our platform for our Candian wealth customers. We’re looking to fill our team with influencers, makers, creators and leaders who are flexible, curious, adventurous, versatile and responsive; and who are ready to roll up their sleeves in a collaborative and productive environment to get things done.

Hands-on expectation: You will remain deeply technical—writing code, reviewing pull requests, troubleshooting production issues, and guiding implementation—while also leading design decisions and enabling team execution.

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

• Lead technical decision‑making for the scrum teams, collaborating with solutions architects and other technical leads.
• Develop and enforce coding standards and testing approaches.
• Guide your team through technical issues and challenges
• Delegate work and assignments to team members
• Collaborate with delivery lead to plan milestones, successfully execute software delivery, and escalate issues as needed.
• Work closely with product owners and BSAs to plan next-in-priority technical items in the backlog.
• Design and develop API based on Cloud solutions, such as Microsoft Azure, Google GCP
• Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications
• Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution
• Assure quality security and compliance requirements are met for supported area
• Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment
• Working experience in performance analysis and tuning
• Provide estimates on activities/tasks required to perform design, coding and unit testing
• Complete technical documentation and training material
• Provides production support for applications maintained

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

Must Have Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Extensive experience building enterprise-scale APIs and microservices using Java and Spring Boot.
• Strong experience with REST/JSON, OpenAPI/Swagger, and secure API design.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure or GCP) and containerization using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Experience with SQL databases such as Azure SQL or MS SQL.
• Proven ability to lead technically while remaining hands-on.
• Proven experience in Java back-end development with the following technologies: JDK 17+, GitHub, REST, Spring, Spring Boot, Apache CXF, Microservices, SOAP, Swagger, Apache / Tomcat, SQL
• Experience in application monitoring software, including Dynatrace, Splunk or their equivalent tools.
• Practical experience designing and developing microservices using modern practices/techniques including Domain-Driven Design, event driven architectures, reactive programming and distributed caching

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Experience with Continuous Development or Continuous Integration is a plus
• Knowledge of distributed system design patterns like distributed configuration, service discovery, routing, service-to-service calls, circuit breakers
• Knowledge of Apache/Confluence Kafka, Kafka topics, brokers, stream processing and event streaming platforms
• Experience in batch process development/support using shell script in Unix/Linux
• Front-end or API gateway experience using JavaScript and React.

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 - We offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons.

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.