Senior Director, FX Engineering in Toronto

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

The Senior Director, FX Engineering will lead the strategy, delivery, modernization, and operational excellence of the Bank’s Foreign Exchange technology ecosystem. This role is accountable for the successful execution of business, regulatory, risk, and infrastructure initiatives across Murex and internally developed FX trading, pricing, risk management, workflow, settlement, and reporting platforms.

This role is accountable for the engineering delivery and operational excellence of global FX trading, pricing, risk, market connectivity, workflow, settlement, and reporting platforms across Murex and internally developed systems to ensure the FX ecosystem effectively supports business growth, client needs, regulatory requirements, and operational excellence.

The role leads a global organization of engineering leaders, architects, and software engineers supporting Front Office, Market Risk, Operations, Finance, and Control Functions. This is a highly visible leadership role requiring deep FX 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.

In this role you will:

• Define and execute a multi-year FX Engineering strategy and target-state architecture aligned to Global Markets objectives.
• Lead the engineering modernization agenda across Murex and proprietary 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 FX.
• Accountable for the availability, performance, scalability, security, and resilience of mission-critical FX trading platforms.
• Drive engineering excellence through Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and software craftsmanship.
• Partner with Trading, Sales, Quants, Risk and 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 FX 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 FX 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 pursue effective and efficient operations of respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles.
• Champion a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Champion a high-performance environment and contribute to an inclusive work environment.
• Create an environment in which the team pursues effective and efficient operations in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values.
• Build a high-performance environment and implement a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role?

• 15+ years of Capital Markets technology experience.
• 10+ years leading global engineering organizations.
• Deep expertise in FX products, workflows, and market structure.
• Extensive experience with Murex and FX front-to-back platforms.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, low-latency architecture, cloud, and platform engineering.
• Proven track record of delivering large-scale engineering transformations.
• Strong program management, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills.
• Experience with modern software engineering, cloud, architecture, and DevSecOps practices.
• Demonstrated ability to operate in an agile, delivery-focused model, managing multiple priorities and adapting quickly to changing needs.
• Strong business and financial acumen, with the ability to connect strategy to execution and tangible results.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing senior and executive leadership.
• Proven leadership experience building and managing high-performing teams.
• Experience in continuous improvement, operational excellence, or transformation initiatives is considered an asset.
• Excellent knowledge with MS Office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience building high-performing engineering organizations and leadership teams.

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.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank.
• 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.
• Community Engagement - we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs.

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto