Application Specialist

Scotiabank•Toronto, ON

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Join a dynamic and collaborative Agile ecosystem that contributes to the Leading-Edge Application platform for Caribbean at CCA Technology Digital Engineering, servicing the Cash Management application for our Commercial and Corporate and Small Business customers. The incumbent will report to the Senior Manager. The Application Specialist contributes to the overall success of Cash Management Banking in providing responsive application level and back-end support for components and services. This will include support around production and non-production application deployments and application support. The incumbent will provide technological guidance on all upcoming initiatives including KTLO and production to ensure consistency in approaches and to optimize technology synergy. You will be responsible for handling application-level issues on mission critical systems requiring same day resolution. Often, resolution determination requires interaction with other teams onsite and remotely. Considerable effort is placed into determining, developing and delivering procedures to protect production environments from unplanned outages. We are looking for a results-oriented, creative, highly motivated individual with a curious mindset, strong business product and leadership skills, deliver excellence passionate for challenges and want to contribute to the success of the Bank.

Requirements

Experience building scalable, enterprise level technology stacks with Java but ideally with a broad set of tools
8 + years web service development with Java (Core Java , Java 17, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Data and Swagger/OAS (Open API Specification)
5 + years working with design and developing cloud based microservices (Azure, PCF or GCP)
5 + years’ experience with Java Frameworks: Spring, JUnit, Log4j
5 + years’ experience with JSON/RESTful, XML, and SOAP services
5 + years database development stored procedures with SQL, AzureSQL, Sybase OR MS SQL
Hands-on experience in Cloud Microservice and Microapp development
Experience in application monitoring software, including Dynatrace, Splunk or their equivalent tools.
Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps
Practical experience designing and developing microservices using modern practices/techniques including Domain-Driven Design, event driven architectures, reactive programming and distributed caching

Responsibilities

The incumbent is responsible for key projects within the department and manages multiple small and large projects concurrently.
Drives the team’s modernization initiatives, working collaboratively with Architects for strategic direction and guidance.
Effectively communicate modernization initiatives and progress to the business line.
Define and drive the technical vision and strategy by collaborating with solutions architects and other technical leads ensuring alignment with enterprise standards.
Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications
Lead the estimation process for new business and technical requirements, ensuring accuracy, feasibility, and alignment with project objectives.
The incumbent will be responsible for documentation of design including Technical Design Document, Security Design document etc.
Lead and actively contribute to the ongoing review of Vulnerability Management and Threat/Security Assessments for all releases, ensuring effective oversight of all technical aspects of the application.
Review and approve solution designs, integration patterns, data flows, and technical specifications
Promote thorough documentation of design artifacts within the team to facilitate knowledge sharing and continuity.
Ensure high‑quality code, documentation, and technical artifacts through reviews and governance
Evaluate emerging technologies and propose ways to enhance system capabilities.
Actively contributes to core development activities, including coding, configuration, integration, and troubleshooting.
Lead technical assessments, code reviews, solution walkthroughs, and readiness checkpoints.
Monitor progress, anticipate risks, and remove technical blockers to keep delivery on track.
Develop coding standards, Mentor and coach developers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Partner with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Project Managers, and external vendors to understand business needs and align on delivery outcomes.
Identify opportunities to improve processes, tools, automation, and engineering efficiency.
Support resource planning, task allocation, and prioritization across technical workstreams.
Communicates technical decisions, risks, and impacts clearly to non‑technical stakeholders.
Leverage industry best practices design, test, implement and support a solution
Provide direction during technical escalations or critical production issues.