Principal Data Engineer - Tangerine

Is this role right for you?

• Champions a customer-focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Participates in the design and implementation of the Tangerine data engineering strategy and platform, advising senior leadership and executing on the vision with senior architects and the development team.
• Collaborates with data scientists, data analysts, and software engineers to understand user requirements and inform the design and development of data engineering features.
• Hands on development on highly complex initiatives.
• Champions a data design pattern and architecture that supports Tangerine business needs and collaborates with senior architects on pipeline design to support our architectural vision.
• Mentors technical leads and high-potential data engineers by providing stretch-goals and feedback through design and code reviews.
• Remains delivery focused and help the team to resolve technical impediments.
• Influences product roadmap by working closely with product team and by providing technical insights and suggestions.
• Champions application security best practices and ensure security-by-design in data access and processing. Work closely with security architecture and security advisory committee to ensure continued adherence to directives and all security practices.
• Advances our testing processes including unit, integration, functional, non-functional and security testing.
• Keeps up with innovation in the field of data and AI, enabling advancements around cloud, agentic AI, and production ML workloads.
• Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.
• Understands 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 his/her 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.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role?

• 12+ years of data engineering industry experience with a minimum of 8 years designing data platforms for large, complex enterprise applications.
• Experience as a technical leader for large technology programs and initiatives
• Knowledge of/or hands-on experience with data and data warehousing technologies
• Experience shaping and communicating the design pattern to store, organize, process and prepare data for various business purposes
• Experience building, architecting, designing, and implementing data pipelines to support multiple types of downstream needs, ranging from reporting and analytics to production ML inference pipelines and agentic workflows.
• Experience designing and implementing public cloud-based applications on Google Cloud Platform and other cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and knowledge of enhancing CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and influencing skills with the ability to build and foster relationships with business partners, project stakeholders, strategic technology partners and external vendors.
• Commitment to maintaining a diversified set of skills through continued education and mentoring peers and junior and senior team members.
• Ability to collaborate across team and organizational boundaries, build relationships, and achieve broader organizational goals.
• Experience working with 3rd party vendors including defining SLOs, limitations, security assessments, etc. to achieve business goals.

What's in it for you?

• You will be part of a diverse and inclusive team of Client-focused go-getters looking to learn from each other in an environment that celebrates and recognizes success!
• You will have access to thousands of online and in-person courses so you can shape your career growth with support from diverse industry leaders.
• You will get our help to save for your future and to invest in your total well-being through our Tangerine benefits*.
• You belong here, and we are equal and uncomplicated. Bring your true self to work, dress codes don’t apply here.
• You will enjoy workspace flexibility and all the excitement that comes from working at the official Bank of the Toronto Raptors.