Principal Engineer, Intelligent Developer Platforms

Scotiabank • Toronto, ON

9d • Onsite

About The Position

The Principal Engineer, Intelligent Developer Platforms is a senior individual contributor responsible for defining and delivering AI‑enabled capabilities across Scotiabank’s global developer platform ecosystem. This role focuses on embedding artificial intelligence directly into the software delivery lifecycle to improve code quality, application security, technical currency, and delivery efficiency, while operating within the governance, risk, and control expectations of a global financial institution. Acting as a hands‑on technical leader, this role establishes enterprise‑wide patterns for AI‑augmented software engineering, shapes the evolution of developer platforms, and enables development teams to safely and effectively adopt intelligent automation at scale. The Principal Engineer provides deep technical leadership, influences platform and application teams across the Bank, and plays a critical role in advancing secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) compliance through intelligent.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Extensive experience designing and building large‑scale developer platforms, CI/CD systems, or software delivery tooling.
• Demonstrated expertise applying artificial intelligence or advanced automation to software engineering workflows.
• Strong knowledge of secure software development lifecycle principles, application security, and policy compliance.
• Proven ability to operate as a senior individual contributor with enterprise‑level influence.
• Experience within financial services or other highly regulated industries.
• Background in platform architecture, specification‑driven systems, or workflow automation at scale.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and setting technical direction across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver AI driven capabilities embedded within developer platforms, including automated pull request review aligned to coding standards, secure SDLC requirements, and enterprise security policies.
• Establish AI assisted decision support mechanisms human in the loop pull request approvals, ensuring explainability, auditability, and measurements.
• Design AI enabled approaches to proactively identify application currency gaps and technical debt, generating recommended remediation through suggested code changes and pull requests.
• Lead the development of AI based security review patterns that analyze security scan results, threat and risk assessments, and historical context to provide clear, actionable risk signals.
• Partner with developer tooling and IDE teams to embed enterprise knowledge into AI agents, enabling controlled and secure interaction with bank systems through approved interfaces and guardrails.
• Define long term AI patterns for advanced application tiers, including the use of work management artifacts to suggest code changes and measure automation effectiveness.
• Drive platform level approaches for specification driven workflows, reducing bespoke workflow implementations and enabling consistent operation of AI agents across delivery pipelines.
• Act as a technical thought leader for AI augmented engineering practices, establishing standards, reference architectures, and guardrails aligned to secure SDLC and policy compliance.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior engineers, influencing delivery and platform adoption across multiple teams without direct authority.

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.
• 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!

What This Job Offers

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