Manager, Engineering Culture Career Mobility Champion

Scotiabank • Toronto, ON

2d • Onsite

About The Position

This role is focused on driving the harmonization of career bands and job titles within Technology, aligning with an internationally recognized career framework. The goal is to empower staff progression as part of the Scotiabank Engineering Mindset culture re-alignment. The position involves mapping various titles and progression tracks onto a universally accepted model in conjunction with HR, ensuring appropriateness and acceptability with HR and CIOs, and maintaining this mapping over time. It also includes implementing change management processes, drafting training materials, and working with HR tech to ensure adherence to official titles. Additionally, the role involves designing and implementing a cross-CIO secondment and transfer scheme, promoting these as positive steps for staff progression. The position also requires working with HR and HR Tech to complete a Skills Inventory process, ensuring it meets regulatory needs and is automated where possible, cross-referencing skills to industry standards, identifying deficient areas, and collaborating with Global Learning and the Manager, Engineering Culture Messaging and Coordination to establish events, learning plans, and guided external learning tracks to address these gaps. This is a hands-on role critical for evolving the career structure to support Scotiabank's mission of being 'the creators, guardians, and engineers of value and exceptional experiences for our clients.'

Requirements

• 5+ years in Technology, HR or learning and development role.
• Degree in relevant discipline from a recognized, accredited, university, or art school.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Great presentation skills.

Nice To Haves

• Recognized HR qualification is an asset.
• Familiarity with SFIA 9.0 an asset – willingness to become certified if not.
• Experience in job design a plus.

Responsibilities

• Drive the harmonization of career bands and job titles within Technology in broad alignment with an internationally recognized career framework.
• Map multiple different titles and progression tracks within Scotia onto one universally accepted model prepared in conjunction with HR.
• Liaise with HR and the various CIOs to ensure that the mapping is appropriate and acceptable in context.
• Maintain the mapping going forward to reflect industry and external technology changes.
• Implement the change management process to actualize and put into effect the changed job titles.
• Draft and prepare training material to ensure that the change sticks once done.
• Work with HR tech to ensure that there can be no "drift" over time away from the official titles.
• Design and implement a cross CIO secondment and transfer scheme.
• Ensure that secondments and transfers are seen as positive things tied into later staff progression.
• Initiate the secondment process with structures within the CIO teams before moving out to cross CIO when this is proven.
• Work with HR and HR Tech to complete our Skills Inventory process.
• Ensure that the Skills Inventory is fit for regulatory needs and automated in so far as is possible.
• Cross reference the skills to an industry standard and work with the CIO’s to identify deficient areas.
• Work with Global Learning and the Manager, Engineering Culture Messaging and Coordination to set up events, learning plans and guided external learning tracks to bridge these gaps.
• Champion a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Hands-on drafting of proforma job specifications according to an industry template, using a combination of currently in pace specs, industry documents and draft Scotiabank specs.
• Make the change happen. Make the change stick. Prepare for the next iteration of the change.
• Liaise with the HR functions and the CIO’s to ensure that the new framework supports fungibility and ease of transfer across departments.
• Proactively monitor the number of transfers and report on these annually.
• Work hand in hand with HR to ensure messaging around career stream changes / cultural expectations / ways and methods of working is done in an efficient and effective way.
• Cross check the consistency of messaging across the various teams.
• Ensure that this messaging is passed down to the affected staff.
• Become familiar with and track wider industry best practice around career frameworks for technical jobs.
• Track those approved or previously recognized by our regulators.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Actively pursue effective and efficient operations of your respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the 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.
• Champion a high performance environment and contribute to an inclusive work environment.

Benefits

• A rewarding career path with diverse opportunities for professional development.
• A culture that promotes teamwork and cross-functional collaboration to achieve business goals.
• Inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, background, and experience.
• An organization committed to making a difference in our communities – for you and our customers.
• Opportunity to work with a very enthusiastic team that helps our clients by ensuring the Bank is able to continue to operate to deliver key business services.

What This Job Offers

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