Senior Solutions Architect in Toronto

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

The Senior Solutions Architect ensures that the applications architecture and infrastructure supporting major, highly complex applications are designed to meet evolving business requirements and meet standards for reliability, scalability and availability. The incumbent will provide architecture and technology guidance on all projects to ensure consistency in approaches and to optimize technology synergy. The Solutions Architect also provides expertise and counsel ensuring technology teams and business areas understand all the options and technology choices in support of their business. The Solutions Architect is a technology and business expert with strong leadership and facilitation skills with the ability to influence others.

In this role you will:

• Lead and drive a customer focused culture throughout their team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Act as a thought partner for senior leaders across the group – within the context of strategic technology projects and on an ongoing basis.
• Recommend end-to-end technology design solutions and take full accountability for the architecture of a solution.
• Manage multiple complex and parallel projects with tight business and regulatory timelines, negotiating with stakeholders to resolve conflicting priorities.
• Lead a wide range of technology strategy initiatives such as Applications rationalization, Cloud Migration, Legacy modernization, synthesizing findings and presenting clear recommendations and roadmaps to ensure impactful project outcomes to senior leaders within GBM.
• Ensure simplification of the technology application landscape achieving efficiency gains in terms of cost, revenue and resources while ensuring uncompromised delivery of business value to clients.
• Keep the Bank safe by ensuring right technology, architecture, data, and infrastructure choices are made that prevent malicious attacks against the Bank’s technology infrastructure.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Create 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.

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

• 12+ years of software engineering industry experience.
• Bachelor (equivalent or higher) degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience working in the Capital Markets domain, preferably in FX Domain and products such as Spots, Options, Swaps, Exotics.
• Experience in migrating legacy FX Platforms to modern platforms, preferably in Murex.
• Experience with structured Architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premise to-cloud migration deployments and roadmaps.
• Experience in managing multiple complex and parallel projects with the ability to negotiate and resolve conflicting priorities.
• Experience building, architecting, designing, and implementing highly distributed global based systems.
• Experience in network infrastructure, security, data, or application development.
• Experience in modernizing legacy systems or similar transformational initiatives.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and influencing skills with the ability to build and foster relationships with business partners, project stakeholders, strategic technology partners and external vendors.
• Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries, build relationships, and achieve broader organizational goals.

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.
• 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.
• 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 - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs.

Location(s): Canada: Ontario: Toronto