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Requisition ID: 274773 Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Team Global Wealth Banking and Markets Engineering (GWBMT) is the rapid-moving, award-winning technology engine that powers Scotiabank's Wealth and Capital Markets businesses.

The Platform Engineering organization provides the foundational technology platforms and cloud services that enable application teams to innovate rapidly, securely, and at scale. Our portfolio includes enterprise Kubernetes platforms spanning on-premises and Google Cloud environments, Cloud Enablement Services, Kafka as a Service, Airflow as a Service, Fine-Grained Access Management capabilities, and future developer platform offerings that accelerate application modernization and cloud adoption.

The Role We are seeking a Director Platform Product Owner to lead the product strategy, roadmap, adoption, and delivery of a portfolio of enterprise platform products that serve hundreds of engineers and mission-critical applications across the bank.

This role sits at the intersection of technology, product management, engineering, and business strategy. The successful candidate will be responsible for defining and evolving platform products that enable cloud adoption, application modernization, developer productivity, security, and operational excellence.

As a senior product leader, you will partner closely with Platform Engineering, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and application development teams to ensure our platforms deliver measurable business value, exceptional user experiences, and scalable solutions that meet the needs of a rapidly evolving enterprise landscape.





You will act as the voice of the engineering customer while balancing engineering priorities, platform sustainability, risk management, and strategic technology objectives.

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

Define and execute the strategic vision, roadmap, and lifecycle management of a portfolio of platform engineering products and services.

Develop product strategies that accelerate cloud adoption, platform standardization, application modernization, and engineering productivity.

Identify emerging customer needs and market trends to drive innovation and platform evolution.

Establish product success metrics, adoption goals, customer satisfaction targets, and business outcomes.

Prioritize investments and roadmap initiatives based on business value, engineering impact, risk reduction, and operational efficiency.

Enterprise Kubernetes Platforms (On-Prem and Google Cloud)

Cloud Enablement and Migration Services

Airflow as a Service

Kafka as a Service

Fine-Grained Access Management Platforms

Developer Platform Capabilities and Self-Service Engineering Solutions

Act as the primary advocate for platform consumers across GBM and enterprise engineering teams.

Build deep understanding of customer journeys, pain points, and platform adoption barriers.





Drive platform onboarding strategies and self-service experiences that improve developer productivity.

Partner with application teams to identify modernization opportunities and accelerate cloud migration initiatives.

Lead customer advisory forums, feedback programs, and adoption reviews to continually improve platform offerings.

Establish product analytics frameworks and measurable indicators to track platform utilization, customer outcomes, productivity gains, and business value realization.

3. Technical Product Ownership

Translate strategic objectives into clear product roadmaps, capabilities, requirements, and delivery plans.

Collaborate with architects and engineering teams to define platform capabilities, service offerings, APIs, and user experiences.

Ensure platform products align with enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, and regulatory obligations.

Define service offerings, operating models, support models, and service-level objectives (SLOs) for platform products.

Champion platform engineering principles, self-service capabilities, automation, and developer experience improvements.

Establish service consumption metrics, cost transparency models, showback/chargeback capabilities, and platform ROI measures.

4. Delivery Leadership & Execution

Lead the planning and execution of platform product initiatives from ideation through delivery and adoption.

Partner with engineering leaders to balance feature development, platform reliability, technical debt reduction, and operational excellence.

Drive agile product delivery practices, roadmap governance, backlog prioritization, and release planning.

📌 Director, Platform Product Owner (Toronto)
🏢 Scotiabank
📍 Toronto