Principal Engineer, Product Lead

Requisition ID: 257993

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

Contributes to the overall success of Enterprise Platforms & EUC Engineering in Canada and globally, ensuring individual goals, plans, and initiatives are executed in support of business strategies and outcomes. Ensures all activities are conducted in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures.

Provides senior technical leadership and technical product ownership for the Bank’s virtual workspace platforms, including Citrix, Windows 365 Cloud PC, Microsoft Intune, and Entra ID. This role is accountable for designing, engineering, and operating end‑to‑end solutions that deliver secure, scalable, and consistent user experiences at enterprise scale.

The role connects product vision, engineering design, delivery sequencing, and runtime operations, ensuring that Cloud PC and virtual workspace platforms function as resilient, user‑centric services rather than isolated technical components.

Is this role right for you? In this role, you will:
• Champions a customer‑focused culture, ensuring virtual workspace and Cloud PC solutions are engineered with user experience, reliability, and performance as first‑class design outcomes.
• Acts as the senior technical authority and technical product lead for the virtual workspace domain, owning solution direction from concept and design through build, deployment, and steady‑state operations.
• Leads the design and engineering of large‑scale Windows 365 Cloud PC solutions, including identity‑integrated, security‑by‑design, and multi‑region capable deployments aligned to enterprise performance, resilience, and supportability expectations.
• Owns or co‑owns the technical product backlog, translating business outcomes, user experience requirements, risk findings, security controls, operational feedback, and technical debt into prioritized and sequenced engineering work.
• Drives end‑to‑end engineering decisions across identity, networking, endpoint management, security, automation, monitoring, and support models.
• Uses experience telemetry and operational data to continuously improve performance and reduce friction.
• Serves as the highest technical escalation point for complex design or operational issues.
• Partners closely with engineering, product, security, infrastructure, operations, and vendor teams.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:
• Operates in a global enterprise environment delivering Cloud PC services at scale.
• Functions as a senior individual contributor shaping solution quality and outcomes.
• Bridges product strategy, engineering execution, and operational readiness.
• Influences cross‑functional teams while remaining deeply technical.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Enterprise‑scale virtual workspace engineering experience.
• Proven end‑to‑end ownership from design through operations.
• Experience working in product‑driven teams with backlog ownership.
• Advanced expertise in Windows 365 Cloud PC, Citrix, Intune, and Entra ID.
• Hybrid, Standard office environment. Non‑standard hours and moderate travel may be required.

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.
• 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, cooking with friends, 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.