The Principal Engineer partners with business line representatives and technical teams to drive improved technology solutions that support business strategy with an enterprise view.

The Principal

Engineer also develops technical roadmaps and strategies, proposals, and is accountable for research and development, and represents the Bank on external industry groups. Oversees the Backup Engineering Platforms ensuring business strategies, plans and initiatives are executed / delivered in compliance with governing regulations, security requirements, internal policies, and procedures.

The Principal

Engineer is to advise senior technology leaders on platform strategy, technology risk, resiliency posture, investment planning, and emerging industry trends, maintains superior technology skills and knowledge of emerging technological trends across at least a single technology discipline with solid working knowledge of other key technologies. They will proactively work to progress the architecture, and overall design of the Bank’s Information Systems as a corporate asset in supporting the Bank’s business objectives. This includes ensuring technical directions and options consider the customer, constraints and future enhancements in network communication, hardware,



system software and development software.

In conjunction with the other GTEP Engineering and Architecture teams: Develop, Define, design, engineer, and implement hardware and solutions and maintain patterns and standards for On-Premises and Cloud Native Backup Solutions including monitoring and automation. Accountable for defining and maintaining the enterprise data protection architecture strategy, standards, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. Define and implement policies, standards and patterns for cyber vaulting, immutable storage, air-gapped recovery by driving an enterprise recovery validation exercises, disaster recovery testing, and recovery assurance programs to ensure business recovery objectives are achievable.

Lead cross-disciplinary efforts to research, incubate, test, and perform proof of concepts of new and innovative Technologies and solutions for potential use in the Bank in conjunction with the other GTEP Operations and Engineering teams Direct engagement with regional and subsidiaries constituents to provided Engineering direction and input on:

📌 Principal Backup Engineer (Winnipeg)
🏢 Scotiabank
📍 Winnipeg