Advisory Software Engineer
Requisition ID: 256413
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, initiatives are executed/delivered in support of the team’s strategies and objectives.

Ensures all activities conducted are incompliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures
**Is this role right for you? In this role you will:**
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 current 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
**Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We’d love to work with you if you have.**
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 as Java
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 Elastic

Search, 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 environment,
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 Dev

Ops 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
Financial software development organization experience
**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, pleaseclick here (https://www.scotiabank.com/careers/en/careers/technical-support-for-applicants.html) .

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.

📌 Advisory Software Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Scotiabank
📍 Toronto