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

The Software Engineer contributes to the overall success of the Customer Communications Composition team in Canada, ensuring specific individual goals, plans, and initiatives are executed and delivered in support of the team’s strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures.

Responsibilities

Lead the application architecture design centered around Opentext Exstream and Opentext Communications Builder/Communications Server

Work closely with end users, SMEs, cross functional teams and business teams to understand business needs, conduct gap analysis and requirements assessments as needed

Actively lead and participate in customer discovery and solution discovery sessions

Partner with Architecture on the design and integration for technology solutions

Proactively provide guidance and recommendation on the software design

Be involved in the full life cycle of a project, responsible for producing actionable and complete specifications, writing production quality code, and implementation

Deliver and enhance new and current solutions and applications

Collaborate with cross functional teams on the components to meet the performance requirements

Collaborate to provide estimation and break down of work to enable small and frequent releases to production

Design test sets and automate where possible, including functional and non functional testing, regression testing as well as performance testing

Write deployment scripts and leverage tools such as the Accelerator pipeline to promote code

Build software solutions that meet the needs of stakeholders while focusing on continually reducing technical debt

Improve the end user experience by finding scalable solutions and addressing complex ad hoc queries

Set up development environments necessary to build the entire solution

Participate in merging, integrating, versioning, promoting, code through environments and version control

Create, socialize, and implement on technical roadmaps

Coach and mentors junior Engineers to support their career development and personal growth

Provide expertise in the technologies and frameworks used to deliver on business objectives

Stay ahead of latest technologies, tools, patterns, best practices and brings them to the team for consideration.

Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions





Support the solution in production (as needed); triaging and problem-solving incidents to restore services in production and with follow up on root cause/permanent fixes

Effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences

Provide technical leadership for various team applications and processes

Able to work with and refactor legacy code (as needed)

Participate and run SCRUM Meetings (as needed)

Ensure software reliability, observability and operational efficiency

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related tech field

6+ years of hands on software development experience with Customer Communications Management tools (CCM) in conceptualization, design, engineering, and debugging

6+ years of hand on software development experience with Opentext Exstream v23.3 or later and Opentext Communications Builder

5+ years’ experience with a modern programming language such asJava

5+ years’ experience developing, deploying, and maintaining large scale applications with complex integration

4 + years’ experience reading, writing, and running SQL scripts

Working experience with data technologies and databases, preferably in one or more of:Postgres,MSSQL, Oracle DB, Apache NiFi, Apache Kafka, Apache ElasticSearch, comfortable working with large datasets

Working experience with scheduling and monitoring tools such as Autosys, Splunk and Dynatrace

Hands-on experience working with Continuous Integration (CI) build-automation tools such as Jenkins

Experience working in an Agile setting,

Microsoft Azure Cloud or Google Cloud GCP experience would be an asset

Good working knowledge of design patterns and best practices

Experience working with real-time, high availability and low latency systems

Hands-on experience with DevOps best practices and tooling, including CI/CD, Helm, Harness, Jenkins, Kubernetes and Docker

Experience integrating with third-party SaaS providers, libraries and SDKs

Experience with cloud development concepts such as Docker, Kubernetes, development experience using GCP, Opentext Cloud Native and Opentext Orchestrator

Knowledge in secure coding, authentication, authorization and compliance





Core banking experience, especially in understanding financial systems, transaction flows, and regulatory compliance within enterprise environments

Experience supporting production applications, ensuring stability through incident resolution, root cause analysis, and proactive issue prevention

Passion about exploring emerging technologies such as AI/ML and can creatively apply them to solve business and technology challenges

Valuable inputs and suggestions to enhance our engineering practices

An Outcome-focused approach to work and problem-solving

3+ years’ Agile Scrum experience – demonstrated understanding of Agile concepts, agile estimations and ceremonies

5+ years combined experience JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, MS office suite or equivalent tools

Experience with test preparation and test execution

Benefits

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: Canada – Ontario – Toronto

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📌 Advisory Software Engineer (Ontario)
🏢 Scotiabank
📍 Ontario