Principal Storage Engineer

Scotiabank•Toronto, ON

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Principal Engineer partners with business line representatives and technical teams to drive improved technology solutions that support business strategy with an enterprise view. The Principal Engineer also develops technical roadmaps and strategies, proposals, and is accountable for research and development, and represents the Bank on external industry groups. In this role, you will oversee the Storage and/or Backup Engineering Platforms ensuring business strategies, plans and initiatives are executed / delivered in compliance with governing regulations, security requirements, internal policies, and procedures. The incumbent is viewed internally as a Technology Expert with leader facilitation skills and the ability to influence others. The Principal Engineer is a trusted advisor to Senior Management on project teams and ScotiaTECH enterprise functions. Maintains superior technology skills and knowledge of emerging technological trends across at least a single technology discipline with strong working knowledge of other key technologies. The incumbent will research, plan, define and support designs in support of the departments mandate. They will proactively work to progress the architecture, and overall design of the Bank’s Information Systems as a corporate asset in supporting the Bank’s business objectives. This includes ensuring technical directions and options consider the customer, constraints and future enhancements in network communication, hardware, system software and development software. The incumbent will also ensure all components will interoperate and provide the infrastructure to support future strategic initiatives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, or other related field or equivalent work experience.
At least 10 years of IT and business/industry work experience.
5 years of people management.

Responsibilities

Oversees the Storage and/or Backup Engineering Platforms ensuring business strategies, plans and initiatives are executed / delivered in compliance with governing regulations, security requirements, internal policies, and procedures.
Develops technical roadmaps and strategies, proposals, and is accountable for research and development.
Represents the Bank on external industry groups.
Maintains superior technology skills and knowledge of emerging technological trends across at least a single technology discipline with strong working knowledge of other key technologies.
Researches, plans, defines and supports designs in support of the departments mandate.
Proactively works to progress the architecture, and overall design of the Bank’s Information Systems as a corporate asset in supporting the Bank’s business objectives.
Ensures technical directions and options consider the customer, constraints and future enhancements in network communication, hardware, system software and development software.
Ensures all components will interoperate and provide the infrastructure to support future strategic initiatives.
Develops and maintains patterns and standards for On-Premises and Cloud Native Storage and Backup Solutions including monitoring and automation.
Leads cross-disciplinary efforts to research, incubate, test, and perform proof of concepts of new and innovative Technologies and solutions for potential use in the Bank.
Direct engagement with regional constituents to provided Engineering direction and input on prioritized initiatives, infrastructure patterns, principals, frameworks, and standards to align with globally approved offerings, and approach, including when standard does not exist today.
Participates in regional Design Councils and the GTEP Architectural Review Board.
Acts in a consulting role from ideation through design.
Works with the GTEP teams to capture and document standards, infrastructure patterns, principals, and frameworks in a consistent and clear format.
Participates in on-call engineering model to support Operations teams in resolving complex incidents, cross-platform issues, and critical outages.
Reduces Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) through SME engagement and rapid escalation support.
Responsible for managed platforms capacity planning activities in partnership with Operations and LoBs.
Ensures platforms meet business growth demands, performance requirements, and cost optimization targets.
Aligns forecasts with investment planning and infrastructure strategy.
Accountable for technology feature enablement aligned to Line of Business (LoB) requirements.
Ensures platforms evolve to support new capabilities, security enhancements, and automation-first operations.
Translates business needs into engineering deliverables and platform roadmaps.
Drives automation of manual, repetitive, and operationally intensive tasks, including configuration drift detection, provisioning workflows, and monitoring and remediation actions.
Improves efficiency, reduces operational risk, and enables scale and consistency.