Solutions Architect

Requisition ID: 231875

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

The Team

Scotiabank's Cards Engineering team is dedicated to delivering best-in-class, end-to-end technology solutions that power the bank's credit card products and services. We design and build robust backend systems and APIs that enable seamless, secure, and innovative customer experiences across all digital and physical channels.

The Solutions Architect plays a critical leadership role within the Cards Engineering team, ensuring that our technology strategy aligns with long-term business goals, regulatory requirements, and enterprise architecture standards. This role is responsible for driving the technical design and architecture across the card's ecosystem, with a focus on modernization, scalability, resilience, and customer-centric innovation. You will lead the development of future-ready solutions that support agile delivery, foster engineering excellence, and enable high-performing, inclusive, and collaborative teams.

Is this role right for you? In this role, you will:

Lead the end-to-end solution architecture for credit card platforms, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and business objectives.Design scalable, secure, and resilient systems that support high availability and performance.Collaborate with product owners, engineering leads, and enterprise architects to define technical roadmaps and architectural blueprints.Champion modernization initiatives, including cloud adoption, API-first design, and event-driven architectures.Provide architectural governance and mentorship to engineering teams throughout the development lifecycle.Ensure compliance with regulatory and security standards across all solutions.Promote a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.Work with teams to develop viable business cases focusing on moving towards target state technology architecture and capabilities.

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

8+ years of IT experience with at least 3 years of experience providing hands-on architectural design. Strong understanding of frontend development, specifically microapp design patterns. Bachelor (equivalent or higher) degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline. Experience working in Financial Services domain highly desirable. Experience in designing/developing cloud native solutions in GCP, Azure, AWS platforms. Experience in architecting end-to-end solutions involving multiple technology platforms and leveraging established architecture/design frameworks. Practical experience in addressing data management challenges as part of architecture solution development. Experience in Security Architecture on the areas of authentication, authorization, and auditing. Proven hands-on experience in leading Proof of Concept / Proof of Technology initiatives. Experience in Agile, DevOps and iterative software development. Excellent interpersonal, communication, and influencing skillsAbility to collaborate across organizational boundaries, build relationships, and achieve broader organizational goals. Must be flexible and ready to adapt to a dynamic environment. 

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. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans. 
• 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. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements. 
• 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 egagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons and much more

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.  

At Scotiabank, 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. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.

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