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Fullstack (React) Technical Lead - Global Wealth Management Technology (Ottawa/Toronto)

Requisition ID: 206311

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

The Global Wealth Engineering client technology team is transforming the digital experience for its clients. The team partners and works closely with the Scotia Digital team to bring world-class digital experiences for all Scotia Wealth Management channels. The team plays a key role to help investor manage their investments and reach their financial goals.

Global Wealth Engineering Technology Team is looking for an energetic and results-oriented Technical Lead to join our team to help build our platform for our internation wealth customers. We’re looking to fill our team with influencers, makers, creators and leaders who are flexible, curious, adventurous, versatile and responsive; and who are ready to roll up their sleeves in a collaborative and productive environment to get things done.

Is this role right for you?

• Lead technical decisioning for the scrum teams, collaborating with solutions architects and other technical leads.

• Develop coding standards and testing approaches.

• Guide your team through technical issues and challenges

• Delegate work and assignments to team members

• Collaborate with delivery lead to plan milestones, successfully execute software delivery, and escalate issues as needed.

• Work closely with product owners and BSAs to plan next-in-priority technical items in the backlog.

• Design and develop UI & API based on Cloud solutions, such as Microsoft Azure, Google GCP

• Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications

• Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution

• Assure quality security and compliance requirements are met for supported area

• Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment

• Working experience in performance analysis and tuning

• Provide estimates on activities/tasks required to perform design, coding and unit testing

• Complete technical documentation and training material

• Provides production support for applications maintained

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

Must Have Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• Experience building scalable, enterprise level technology stacks with Java and javascipt but ideally with a broad set of tools

• Strong proficiency in front-end technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React).

• Strong knowledge in web service development with Java 8+ or above, JAX-WS, JAX-RS, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Data and Swagger/OAS (Open API Specification)

• Proven experience in Java back-end development with the following technologies: JDK 8+, GitHub, REST, Spring, Spring Boot, Apache CXF, Microservices, SOAP, Swagger, Apache / Tomcat, SQL

• Solid understanding and hands-on experience with Dockers & K8s

• 5 + years database development stored procedures with SQL, AzureSQL, Sybase OR MS SQL

• Experience in application monitoring software, including Dynatrace, Splunk or their equivalent tools.

• Practical experience designing and developing microservices using modern practices/techniques including Domain-Driven Design, event driven architectures, reactive programming and distributed caching

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Experience with Continuous Development or Continuous Integration is a plus

• Knowledge of distributed system design patterns like distributed configuration, service discovery, routing, service-to-service calls, circuit breakers

• Knowledge of Apache/Confluence Kafka, Kafka topics, brokers, stream processing and event streaming platforms

• Experience in batch process development/support using shell script in Unix/Linux

• Proficient in Spanish Language is a plus

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.

• Dynamic Ecosystem - Free tea & coffee, universal washrooms, and lots of space for team collaboration.

• Community Engagement - No matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, cooking with friends, Humans of Digital and much more!

Working location condition: Hybrid

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Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto || Canada : Ontario : Ottawa

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, pleaseclick here (https://www.scotiabank.com/careers/en/careers/technical-support-for-applicants.html) . 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.