Lead Architect

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

The role:

Contributes to the overall success of the Corporate Commercial Platform within Global Cash Management Technology by ensuring that individual goals, plans, and initiatives are effectively executed and delivered in alignment with the team's business strategies and objectives. Ensures that all activities are conducted in full compliance with applicable regulations, internal policies, and established procedures.

What will you do?

• Collaborate closely with Delivery and Engineering teams, Product Owners, and technical platform teams to architect, design, and develop high-quality banking platforms, APIs, and solutions supporting commercial customers.
• Lead end-to-end software architecture, design, and development for complex, distributed, cloud-based microservice systems.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance to development teams across multiple locations, including detailed code-level support to ensure high-quality delivery.
• Build and enhance infrastructure to ensure robustness, scalability, availability, and efficiency of platforms.
• Architect and deliver software solutions that scale elastically across multiple data centers and cloud vendors while maintaining resilience.
• Understand and manage relationships between applications, systems, and data solutions.
• Ensure comprehensive testing at all stages of development, including unit, mutation, use-case, performance, availability (failure injection), and consistency testing.
• Communicate with precision and clarity while remaining concise.
• Apply extensive experience in systems analysis and design methodologies.
• Conduct research and development to evaluate emerging technologies and their potential to transform banking, transaction processing, and administration platforms.
• Align solutions with strategic technical and capability roadmaps, identifying new shared capabilities and business opportunities.
• Incorporate the Bank's risk appetite and risk culture into day-to-day activities and decision-making.
• Champion a high-performance environment and contribute to an inclusive workplace culture.

What do you need to succeed?

Education & Experience

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent professional experience).

Minimum 5+ years of experience in IT, with strong emphasis on:

o React, Spring Boot, Redis

o API development and Microservices

o Proven ability to deliver web-based applications.

Core Technical Skills

Deep technical expertise in several of the following areas:

o API & Service Integration development techniques.

o REST/SOAP protocols.

o Message mapping using XSLT/JSON and related tools.

o Java and React frameworks (Spring Boot, React, Redis).

o Domain-Driven Design and multiple Java frameworks.

o Performance engineering and optimization techniques.

o High Availability (HA) design and architecture principles.

Additional Technical Competencies

• Cloud Architecture (Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, AWS)
• Build and deployment automation tools (Maven, Jenkins).
• CI/CD pipelines, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and code quality tools for automated testing and monitoring.
• Source Code Management systems (Git, Bitbucket, SVN).
• Security best practices, including secure development principles, OAuth, and infrastructure security.
• Cloud infrastructure including Azure SQL datastores, Google Cloud SQL
• Experience applying Enterprise Architecture frameworks effectively.
• Leveraging AI/ML tools and techniques to improve development processes – considered an asset.
• Good command of English (written and spoken).

What's in it for you?

We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity and curiosity and celebrates success

We provide you with the tools and technology needed to create meaningful customer experiences

You'll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world

We hire you for your talent — not just a job — so you can grow with us. We'll equip you for success not only in your role, but also in your career as a whole

Dress codes don't apply here: being comfortable does

Access to thousands of online and in-person courses so you can hone your current skills, or learn new ones

A competitive rewards package that includes a base salary, a performance bonus, company matching programs on pension and profit sharing, paid vacation, personal & sick days, medical, vision, and dental 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. 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.