Senior Investigator, Digital Forensic Services Expert

4 weeks ago


Toronto, Ontario, Canada Scotiabank Full time

Are you a skilled professional looking for a challenging role in digital forensics?

In this position, you will be responsible for:

  • Championing a customer-focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems, and knowledge.
  • Understanding how the Bank's risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
  • Actively pursuing effective and efficient operations of their 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.
  • Developing and maintaining reliable information sources and liaising with law enforcement, regulators, industry partners, and other corporate security personnel for the purposes of gathering intelligence and execution of any remedial actions to contribute to the department's mandate.
  • Championing a high-performance environment and contributing to an inclusive work environment.

Technical Investigations:

  • Investigating and managing known or suspected cyber-enabled crime internal and externally against the Scotiabank Group and its affiliates, ranging from medium to high complexity and gathering sufficient evidence to assist in determining criminal and civil remedies against the perpetrators.
  • Contributing to Cyber Incidents Response Team (CIRT) investigations, High-priority Investigations (HPIs), and major case management investigations and critical incident being led by Corporate Security Investigation Services teams, which may require travel globally.
  • Contributing to the use of data analytics and various search strategies/techniques to enable analysis of all forms of electronic media to detect and investigate digital artifacts from criminal behaviors.

Digital Fraud Investigations:

  • Conducting digital fraud investigations to identify trends, including where possible, identifying the perpetrators, as well as their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) and making recommendations on fraud risk mitigation strategies to key stakeholders and line management. This includes investigating various forms of cyber-enabled fraud such as phishing, malware, social engineering, account takeover, targeted attacks, and crimeware against the Bank and its customers internationally.
  • Maintaining current awareness of evolving trends in the financial industry, relative to cyber-enabled crime, investigative techniques, and new and enhanced delivery systems within the Scotiabank Group and other financial institutions (FIs).
  • Assisting in the development and presentation of digital fraud investigation metrics, statistics, and trends to management, and/or other stakeholders. This includes providing recommendations on enhancing the state of the Bank's fraud detection and response capabilities as well as systems security and controls.

Forensic Examinations:

  • Conducting medium to high complexity digital forensic investigations on electronic devices, networks, and cloud-based services to collect, preserve, analyze, and interpret digital evidence relating to various forms of misconduct investigations. This includes ensuring the allegations are well founded and provable, with a high expectation of a successful outcome to avoid potential risk to civil liability. This entails the development and execution of forensically sound operational action plans with attention to detail documentation and preservation of evidence.
  • Preparing high-quality investigative forensic reports for senior management, key stakeholders, or legal proceedings. This includes articulating complex and technical information findings clearly and concisely to non-technical stakeholders, including senior executives, business unit heads, legal teams, and law enforcement.
  • Testifying and representing the Scotiabank Group and affiliates as an expert witness in criminal and civil proceedings, as required.
  • Contributing to the management of the Digital Forensic Lab, ensuring proper handling of digital evidence throughout the evidence life cycle, to include the collection, analysis, preservation, and destruction, in compliance with bank standards, legal and regulatory requirements. This includes developing, implementing, and maintaining forensic standards, procedures, practices, and proper chain of custody documentation to ensure the integrity and continuity of digital evidence held within the department in a manner suitable for criminal or civil court proceedings.

Technical Consultation and Project Collaboration:

  • Participating as a consultative SME in new product initiatives across the Bank to advise on the adequacy of security controls and make recommendations on security enhancements to reduce cybercrime exposure and protect the Bank's assets, staff, and customers of the Scotiabank Group.
  • Contributing to the development and delivery of educational presentations on cyber-enabled crime trends as well as training material and knowledge-sharing sessions to global CS digital forensic investigators, other Corporate Security staff, branch, and Bank employees.
  • Working with management and various departments on major projects such as system and/or application development and implementation to assist with investigations.
  • Contributing to the department's efforts to continually enhance its investigative methodologies, processes, technology, and tools, ensuring they remain effective, efficient, and aligned with the department's strategic goals and objectives.

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

Education & Designations:

  • Post-Secondary University degree in Computer Science/Engineering or Information Technology required.

Work Experience:

  • Minimum of 3-5 years in Digital Forensic, Cyber Security or Information Technology field.
  • Working knowledge of the Criminal Code of Canada, the Canada Evidence Act and provincial interpretations relating to computer crime.


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