Director, Analytics Engineering, Global Transaction Banking Analytics

Scotiabank • New York City, NY

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Global Transaction Banking (GTB) is the payments and transaction engine of Scotiabank. We support Small Business, Commercial and Corporate clients with effective treasury management solutions coupled with a best-in-class service model, making it easy for clients to do business with us. As businesses build their digital capabilities and transform their operating models, their payment needs are evolving too. Boasting a unique global footprint, GTB’s comprehensive suite of innovative banking solutions help our business clients generate operational efficiencies, streamline and simplify payments, improve working capital performance, and mitigate financial risk. At Scotiabank, we embrace your strengths, ideas, and ambitions. GTB is a fast-growing team with a focus on the Americas, particularly Canada, the U.S., Mexico, and we are seeking top tier talent to complement our organization. Purpose The Director, Analytics Engineering for Global Transaction Banking (GTB) Analytics is a strategic and technical leader responsible for building and scaling the GTB analytics ecosystem. This role overseas the design, development, and governance of the scalable analytics data model, analytical models and self-serve capabilities that empower GTB teams to make timely, trusted, and data-driven decisions across Payments, Cash Management, Trade Finance, Liquidity, Channels and Operations. The Director partners closely with GTB Product, Sales, Operations, Technology, Finance and Enterprise Data Governance teams to ensure analytics solutions are resilient, compliant, and aligned to GTB growth strategy.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or related fields with at least 3 years in leadership role.
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or technical field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Information Systems, etc.)
• Strong interpersonal skills to develop collaborative working relationship with teams across various geographies
• Proven success in leading a team
• Proven experience building and scaling analytics platforms in complex and regulated environments (e.g., banking or financial services preferred).
• Expertise in modern data architecture (cloud data warehouses, streaming, orchestration frameworks)
• Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, and regulatory requirements within the data space
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree or MBA (analytics/technology focus) and additional industry courses/designations (e.g., Cloud certifications, Governance certifications like DAMA) are an asset.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish)
• Understanding of GTB domain is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Leads and drives a customer focused culture throughout their team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Define and execute the GTB analytics engineering strategy, ensuring alignment with GTB business priorities while championing modern data practices that support GTB’s need for timely insights, operational monitoring, and predictive analytics.
• Oversee the re-design and delivery of robust, scalable data pipelines across GTB’s complex product ecosystem (payments, cash management, trade, liquidity, channels) globally across North America, Europe and Latin America
• Partner with Technology to co-own the modernization effort of GTB’s data landscape, including cloud migration, data governance framework and practices like metadata management, automated data quality checks, and data observability.
• Collaborate with enterprise data office to embed strong data governance, lineage, and quality controls to maintain trusted, well-documented GTB data assets.
• Work closely with Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics teams within GTB Analytics to enable operational dashboards and advanced analytics like forecasting, Gen-AI integration.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Consistently ‘does the right thing’ to keep the Bank safe and fosters a culture where their team, colleagues, customers, and stakeholders can speak up / raise concerns, by listening and responding in a timely manner.
• Creates an environment in which their team pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.
• Builds a high-performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment and using a coaching mindset and behaviors; communicating vision/values/business strategy; and managing succession and development planning for the team.

Benefits

• Scotiabank wants you to be able to bring your best self to work – and life, every day. With a focus on holistic well-being, our many flexible benefit programs are designed to help support your unique family, financial, physical, mental, and social health needs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director