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Title: Director and Head of Operations Engineering Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Director, Operations Engineering will lead strategy, architecture, engineering execution, platform resiliency, and technology innovation agenda for the Bank’s Operations Technology ecosystem.

This role is accountable for the engineering delivery and operational excellence of areas like Books & Records, Reconciliations, Settlements & Clearing (Cross-Asset), Client Tax, Collateral and Margining effectively supporting business growth, client needs, regulatory requirements, and operational excellence

The role leads a global organization of engineering leaders, architects, and software engineers supporting Middle Office, Back Office Operations and Control Functions. This is a highly visible leadership role requiring deep Capital Market Operations expertise, exceptional engineering leadership, and a proven ability to drive innovation, strengthen engineering practices, optimize technology investments, and deliver scalable, resilient, and secure solutions that advance the Global Banking and Markets business.

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

Define and execute a multi-year Operations Engineering strategy and target-state architecture aligned to Global Markets objectives.

Lead the engineering modernization agenda across Operations proprietary and vendor platforms, driving cloud adoption, platform engineering, automation, AI enablement, and operational resiliency.

Provide executive leadership for architecture, software engineering,



platform engineering, SRE, and production engineering functions supporting Operations.

Accountable for the availability, performance, scalability, security, and resilience of mission-critical Operations platforms.

Drive engineering excellence through Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and software craftsmanship.

Partner with Operations to deliver differentiated trading capabilities and business growth.

Lead strategic engineering investment planning, workforce strategy, vendor management, and financial accountability.

Establish KPI-driven engineering governance, reliability metrics, and transparent executive reporting.

Serve as the senior technology authority for Operations architecture, trading platforms, market connectivity, risk systems, and operational workflows.

Maintain strong cybersecurity, audit, regulatory, and operational risk controls.

Build, mentor, and develop high-performing global engineering leadership teams.

Represent Operations Engineering in executive committees, architecture forums, regulatory reviews, and transformation governance bodies.

Understand 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. Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge. Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work setting. Creates an environment in which his/her team 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.

Builds a high-performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment and using a coaching mindset and behaviours; communicating vision/values/business strategy; and, managing succession and development planning for the team.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We’d love to work with you if you have:

15+ years of Capital Markets technology experience.

10+ years leading global engineering organizations.

Deep expertise in Capital Market Operations and workflows.

Extensive experience with Operations

📌 Director and Head of Operations Engineering (Toronto)
🏢 Scotiabank
📍 Toronto