Requisition ID: 249471
Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.
Lead the planning and delivery of Active Directory (AD) and identity services solutions, ensuring alignment with global standards, business needs, and corporate security frameworks. The role is responsible for the availability, integrity, and operational efficiency of the AD infrastructure, acting as a technical reference and internal consultant on authentication, access control, and identity management. It requires deep technical expertise in directory platforms and related services, as well as a cross-functional vision to translate business needs into clear technical requirements. The position is expected to drive continuous improvement, manage technology risks, and actively contribute to the technology roadmap, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and leading transformation initiatives.
Is this role right for you? In this role you will:
- Lead the strategy, design, and delivery of Active Directory solutions, ensuring alignment with global security, compliance, and enterprise architecture standards.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor for identity, authentication, and access‑control initiatives, providing risk‑based recommendations and best‑practice guidance.
- Define and enforce governance and operating models for domains, objects, GPOs, and privileged administration, ensuring auditability, control, and regulatory compliance.
- Oversee global AD/DNS/GPO operations, ensuring 24×7 availability, resilience, performance, and effective incident and problem management.
- Drive the implementation of security, risk, and compliance controls, including hardening, vulnerability management, access reviews, audits, and disaster‑recovery readiness.
- Lead change, modernization, and continuous improvement of the AD platform, including roadmap definition, automation, capacity planning, and technology evolution.
- Provide technical leadership across distributed teams, fostering collaboration, documentation excellence, operational maturity, and alignment with enterprise resilience 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:
- 8+ years of working experience as an Active Directory SME
- 8+ years of hands-on technical working experience in supporting & deploying AD, GPO & DNS in a large corporate environment with 20,000 end-users or more
- Excellent knowledge with AD security, security principles and standards, GPOs, AD trusts, and Privileged Access
- Industry certification such as Microsoft and/or Cybersecurity certification required
- Familiarity with ITIL and SRE practices
- You must be flexible to work ocasially on nights to implement changes
- You must be flexible to be on call during period of time
- Work from office twice a week.
What is 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 engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, Humans of Digital 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.
