Requisition ID: 247999
Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.
Position:
Principal Architect, Payments Engineering
The Role
The Payments Engineering team is looking for a Principal Architect to lead the Trade Finance and Payments Domain, working closely with Engineering teams to drive out modernization of our existing platforms.
Is this role right for you?
- Work closely with Delivery and Engineering teams, Product Owners and technical platform teams to architect, design and develop next generation payments/cards processing platforms and enable incremental delivery of new features to the platforms.
- Drive out end-to-end software architecture, design and develop distributed hybrid cloud based transaction processing systems.
- Perform code review, provide guidance and mentorship to engineers in the team, ensuring best practices are followed and software artifacts are built in a sustainable manner
- Have the ability to architect, design and deliver software that can scale elastically across multiple data centers and cloud vendors while staying resilient.
- Performing research and development to evaluate emerging technologies and their potential to redesign payments and core banking platforms.
- Aligning solutions to strategic technical and capability roadmaps and identifying new shared capabilities and business opportunities.
- Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions
- Champion a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.
Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role?
- 5+ years of experience in IT, with an emphasis on enterprise integration patterns, including API / Microservice design, Asynchronous messaging systems (Kafka, MQ), relational databases, in-memory databases, resilient architecture
- Experience in the Trade Finance and/or Payments domain is desired; vendor integration is an asset
- Experience with structured Architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premise to-cloud migration deployments and roadmaps.
- Experience building, architecting, designing, and implementing highly distributed global based systems. Experience in network infrastructure, security, data, or application development.
- Performance engineering techniques.
- Security – secure development principles, OAuth, infrastructure security, public key infrastructure
- Experience of working with Enterprise Architecture Frameworks and their application
- Previous working experience in Agile/Scrum software delivery model.
- HA Design/Architecture principles
- Experience with software design / development on both on premise and cloud based environments
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.
