Requisition ID: 263794

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

Purpose

The Vice President, Engineering Tangerine Technology manages the delivery of IT Business solutions for Tangerine business lines, ensuring they align with the Bank's strategy. Responsible for the daily functioning, continuous maintenance, high availability, and support of the Tangerine Engineering portfolio.

Accountabilities

• Responsible for owning the Tangerine Engineering business relationships, technology strategy and roadmap.
• Collaborates with the Tangerine business lines, along with the technical and operational groups across the Bank to ensure alignment of technical solutions to the business strategy, use and deployment of best practices in business support solutions, and the alignment and application of Bank operational and security standards.
• Leads and drives a customer focused culture throughout their team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, technologies, systems and knowledge.
• Directs the management of application engineering and support functions to ensure all applications developed have a high degree of integrity, reliability, resiliency, and availability to meet the business need, with sensitivity to local regulatory requirements.
• Leads the development and implementation of strategic plans, policies, and standards surrounding systems engineering, technology trends and strategies, information security, production application support for the business units serviced globally.
• Co-own the engineering technology budget and is responsible for planning, forecasts and achieving financial targets.
• Reviews production support, audit, security & risk issues to ensure root causes are identified, properly defined, documented and reported; ensures issues are understood by senior management and that corrective action will be taken.
• Directs day-to-day activities in a manner consistent with the Bank’s risk culture and the relevant risk appetite statement and limits. Communicates the Bank’s risk culture and risk appetite statement throughout their teams.
• Creates an environment in which his/her team pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk, including but not limited to responsibilities under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and the Guidelines for Business Conduct.
• Builds a high-performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates the team by fostering an inclusive work environment and using a coaching mindset and behaviors; communicating vison/values/business strategy, and managing succession and development planning for the team.

Education / Experience / Other Information

• University degree in Computer Engineering / Applied Science / Technology
• 10+ years of Software Engineering experience
• 10+ years of progressively increasing leadership experience in Information Technology management data, platform, and system(s) management
• 10+ years of Global application development and support
• 5+ years of Solutions or Enterprise Architecture
• 2+ years of System Reliability Engineering
• Strong technical communication skills with a proven ability to understand key business and technical concepts, and present them based on target audience (e.g. Senior Executives, Business Sponsors, Architects, Developers)

Working Conditions

• Work in a standard office-based environment; non-standard hours are a common occurrence. Limited travel domestically / globally, as required.
  
  
  

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

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