Senior Architect, High Value Payment Architecture

Scotiabank • Toronto, ON

29d • Onsite

About The Position

Global Platforms Architecture team is looking for a Software Architect to lead the High Value Payment (Wire) domain, working closely with Engineering teams to drive modernization of our payment platforms. Scotiabank continues to be an industry leader for Payment’s technology and innovation. We have a history of safely leveraging new tools to enable new experiences for our customers, focusing on ensuring we protect their interests and goals. The result of this leads to modernization programs which aim to offer enriched information and transparencies to support the rapidly evolving payments community.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in IT, with an emphasis on enterprise integration patterns, including API / Microservice design, Asynchronous messaging systems (Kafka, MQ), relational databases, in-memory databases, resilient architecture.
• Experience in the payment domain is desired, familiarity with payment networks, SWIFT messaging format is an asset.
• Experience with structured Architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premise to-cloud migration deployments and roadmaps.
• Experience building, architecting, designing, and implementing highly distributed global based systems. Experience in network infrastructure, security, data, or application development.
• Performance engineering techniques.
• Security – secure development principles, OAuth, infrastructure security, public key infrastructure.
• Experience of working with Enterprise Architecture Frameworks and their application.
• Previous working experience in Agile/Scrum software delivery model.
• HA Design/Architecture principles.
• Experience with software design / development on both on premise and cloud based environments.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Delivery and Engineering teams, Product Owners and technical platform teams to architect, design and develop next generation payments processing platforms and enable incremental delivery of new features to the platforms.
• Drive out end-to-end software architecture, design and develop distributed hybrid cloud based transaction processing systems.
• Perform code review, provide guidance and mentorship to engineers in the team, ensuring best practices are followed and software artifacts are built in a sustainable manner.
• Have the ability to architect, design and deliver software that can scale elastically across multiple data centers and cloud vendors while staying resilient.
• Work with the Chief Architect of Payment domain, helping teams align with our payment reference architecture.
• Performing research and development to evaluate emerging technologies and their potential to redesign payments and core banking platforms.
• Aligning solutions to strategic technical and capability roadmaps and identifying new shared capabilities and business opportunities.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Champion a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

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 opportunities

What This Job Offers

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