Director - Data Solution Delivery, Wealth Management

Scotiabank • Toronto, ON

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The Director – Data Solution Delivery, Wealth Management, is accountable for developing, leading, and overseeing the activities of delivery teams responsible for working with cross-functional development teams and business stakeholders to define and implement business strategies, product roadmaps, service offerings, and new features. This is a demanding hands-on and strategic role that requires knowledge of the financial services sector and emerging trends in the Wealth and Asset Management industry.

Requirements

• Minimum 10+ years in a data engineering-focused role.
• Hands-on technical leadership with proven experience leading and mentoring engineering teams.
• Expertise in implementing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) data services such as DataProc, Dataflow, CloudSQL, BigQuery, CloudSpanner in combination with third parties such as Spark, Apache Beam/Composer, DBT, Cloud PubSub, Confluent Kafka, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, and GitHub.
• Experience with data streaming and technologies such as Kafka, Spark-streaming, etc.
• Effective programming/query skills and in-depth knowledge of common data manipulation, visualization, and analytical tools (e.g., Python, Java, PowerBI, etc.).
• Analytical, insights-driven with the ability to help the organization leverage data-driven decisions.
• Strong architecture knowledge with experience in providing technical solutions for cloud infrastructure.
• Active Google Cloud Data Engineer certification or Google Professional Cloud Architect certification.

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrate strong experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) data services and Databricks.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of end-to-end delivery of wealth data exchange engineering use cases and work closely with business and technology stakeholders.
• Participate in Data Engineering, Data Architecture strategy, medallion data hub architecture, and roadmap definition and review process.
• Provide thought leadership in selecting next-generation technologies and architecture components as per the latest trends and Scotiabank standards, frameworks, and best practices.
• Promote a data-first mindset across the enterprise to enable Scotiabank to become a stronger data-driven organization.
• Identify, monitor, and mitigate cross-project or cross-program dependencies while managing relationships, anticipating/mitigating risks, facilitating communications, and leading projects in an agile fashion.
• Engage sponsoring executives and project team members, establishing trusted partnerships to ensure deliveries within scope, budget, and timelines while effectively communicating and discussing analytic insights with senior stakeholders.
• Balance collaboration and consensus with the ability to assert project management discipline where required, while being a seasoned practitioner in leading project teams through fast and complex projects.
• Work in an agile manner to onboard data, define ETL business processes, and create and manage a data dictionary and data lineage.
• Lead a team of data engineers and full-stack developers.
• Excel in relationship, stakeholder management, influencing, and negotiation skills, effective at all levels up to senior executives.
• Efficiently perform management tasks including incident response and escalations, vendor and contract management, infrastructure management, service resiliency, and service ownership.
• Enjoy the challenges of working on different types of projects (from large complex to simple).
• Collaborate with various business functions to ensure Wealth Technology meets business needs.

Benefits

• 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.
• Free tea & coffee, universal washrooms, and lots of space for team collaboration.
• Opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed