Senior Manager Engineering, Regional Platforms

Scotiabank • Toronto, ON

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Manager, this role leads and oversees Chile Insurance Systems in International Banking, ensuring business strategies, plans, and initiatives are executed/delivered in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures. This role serves as a key leader within the organization, influencing both technology and business leadership teams to align delivery strategies with enterprise goals. It acts as a trusted advisor in shaping the agile transformation journey and driving strategic outcomes across International Banking Technology. The role involves leading the end-to-end delivery of large-scale, complex, and high-impact technology initiatives using Agile and DevOps practices, ensuring timely, high-quality, and cost-effective delivery that supports business priorities and enhances customer experience. It also involves building and sustaining high-performing, cross-functional teams by fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement, promoting agile values and servant leadership to empower teams and remove delivery impediments. Establishing strong, collaborative relationships with business, technology, and control function stakeholders is crucial, ensuring alignment on priorities, maintaining transparency, and facilitating effective communication across all levels of the organization. The role oversees the planning, execution, and governance of the technology delivery portfolio, ensuring initiatives are prioritized, resourced, and tracked effectively, with clear visibility into progress, risks, and outcomes. It leads and oversees the Agile delivery team responsible for enabling product development across multiple squads, ensuring Agile ceremonies are effectively facilitated, sprint planning and backlog refinement are strategically aligned with business priorities, and teams consistently deliver incremental value. The role acts as a coach and escalation point for other Delivery Managers, Scrum Masters, and Product Owners, driving continuous improvement in agile maturity, delivery velocity, and cross-team coordination. Coordination of deployment planning, operational readiness, and compliance activities in collaboration with engineering, security, and release management teams is also a key responsibility, ensuring smooth transitions from development to production. Identifying opportunities to improve delivery processes, engineering practices, and team operations, and driving innovation and efficiency through automation, standardization, and continuous feedback loops are essential. The role provides strategic oversight of risk and compliance across the Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC), ensuring all delivery activities adhere to regulatory, operational, and security standards. It proactively identifies, assesses, and mitigates delivery risks, while fostering a culture of accountability and risk awareness within the delivery teams. Active engagement with key stakeholders—including Risk, Legal, Audit, and Security—is required to ensure early involvement, alignment, and traceability of controls throughout the delivery process. Strategic management of team capacity and resource allocation is necessary to ensure alignment with project budgets, delivery timelines, and evolving business priorities. Monitoring and reporting on delivery performance, financial health, and value realization, ensuring transparency and accountability across initiatives, and partnering with finance and portfolio teams to optimize investment decisions and support data-driven planning are also key functions. Championing a customer-first mindset across delivery teams, leveraging institutional knowledge and systems to enhance client relationships and deliver meaningful business value is expected. The role creates an environment where their team pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance and conduct risk. It actively pursues effective and efficient operations of its 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. It builds a high-performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment and using a coaching mindset and behaviors; communicating vision/values/business strategy; and managing succession and development planning for the team.

Requirements

• Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent education/experience
• Postgraduate in Software Engineering, Software Architecture, Project Management, Digital Transformation or equivalent
• 5+ years of IT experience, with a minimum of 4 or more years advanced technical work experience
• 3+ years of progressive IT experience leading/supervising teams of 5+ members
• 3+ years of experience leading software development projects
• Worked in Agile labs or used Agile Scrum and Kanban framework
• Strong project management skills, ability to manage concurrent tasks and initiatives.
• Adapt at organizational change management skills is key to be successful in this role.
• Requires advanced expertise in complex business/technical processes and their application within the organization
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills
• Strong leadership, mentoring, coaching and motivational skills.
• Vendor management skills, experience in negotiating contractual terms and managing offshore development teams
• Javascript Frameworks, html, CSS, SQL,
• Familiarity with microservice architecture and 12-Factor App concepts
• Familiarity with REST APIs and how they differ from SOAP
• Familiarity with Design Patterns, and how to apply them
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, SQL Server

Responsibilities

• Serve as a key leader within the organization, influencing both technology and business leadership teams to align delivery strategies with enterprise goals.
• Act as a trusted advisor in shaping the agile transformation journey and driving strategic outcomes across International Banking Technology.
• Lead the end-to-end delivery of large-scale, complex, and high-impact technology initiatives using Agile and DevOps practices.
• Ensure timely, high-quality, and cost-effective delivery that supports business priorities and enhances customer experience.
• Build and sustain high-performing, cross-functional teams by fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Promote agile values and servant leadership to empower teams and remove delivery impediments.
• Establish strong, collaborative relationships with business, technology, and control function stakeholders.
• Ensure alignment on priorities, maintain transparency, and facilitate effective communication across all levels of the organization.
• Oversee the planning, execution, and governance of the technology delivery portfolio.
• Ensure initiatives are prioritized, resourced, and tracked effectively, with clear visibility into progress, risks, and outcomes.
• Lead and oversee the Agile delivery team responsible for enabling product development across multiple squads.
• Ensure that Agile ceremonies are effectively facilitated, sprint planning and backlog refinement are strategically aligned with business priorities, and that teams are consistently delivering incremental value.
• Act as a coach and escalation point for other Delivery Managers, Scrum Masters and Product Owners, driving continuous improvement in agile maturity, delivery velocity, and cross-team coordination.
• Coordinate deployment planning, operational readiness, and compliance activities in collaboration with engineering, security, and release management teams.
• Ensure smooth transitions from development to production.
• Identify opportunities to improve delivery processes, engineering practices, and team operations.
• Drive innovation and efficiency through automation, standardization, and continuous feedback loops.
• Provide strategic oversight of risk and compliance across the Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC), ensuring that all delivery activities adhere to regulatory, operational, and security standards.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate delivery risks, while fostering a culture of accountability and risk awareness within the delivery teams.
• Actively engage with key stakeholders—including Risk, Legal, Audit, and Security—to ensure early involvement, alignment, and traceability of controls throughout the delivery process.
• Strategically manage team capacity and resource allocation to ensure alignment with project budgets, delivery timelines, and evolving business priorities.
• Monitor and report on delivery performance, financial health, and value realization, ensuring transparency and accountability across initiatives.
• Partner with finance and portfolio teams to optimize investment decisions and support data-driven planning.
• Champion a customer-first mindset across delivery teams, leveraging institutional knowledge and systems to enhance client relationships and deliver meaningful business value.
• Creates an environment in which their team pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance and conduct risk.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her 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.
• Builds a high-performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment and using a coaching mindset and behaviors; communicating vison/values/business strategy; and managing succession and development planning for the team.

Benefits

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days, and benefits will start on day one.
• Community Engagement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Associate degree