Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Scotiabank•Toronto, ON

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Contributes to the overall success of International Banking Technology by leading Analytics & Reporting Services that support management insight, financial and risk reporting, regulatory deliverables, and operational decision-making across International Banking. The role ensures capabilities are scalable, reliable, well controlled, and aligned to Scotiabank standards, internal policies, and governing regulations. The Senior Manager will partner with Business, Finance, Risk, Operations, and Technology stakeholders to modernize reporting services, simplify manual processes, improve quality controls, and accelerate access to trusted business information without creating ambiguity around business ownership or stewardship responsibilities.

Requirements

University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Business, Finance, or related discipline; equivalent professional experience may be considered.
10+ years of progressive technology experience delivering enterprise reporting, analytics, business intelligence, financial systems, or information services in a complex environment.
5+ years of people leadership experience, including leading managers, engineers, analysts, or cross-functional delivery teams.
Strong experience supporting banking, risk, finance, regulatory reporting, International Banking, or business performance reporting functions.
Demonstrated success leading modernization, automation, simplification, or platform transformation initiatives with measurable business outcomes.
Strong knowledge of cloud platforms, analytical platforms, reporting tools, workflow orchestration, production support, security, and control practices.
Excellent executive communication skills with the ability to simplify complex issues, frame business impact, and present clear decisions and recommendations.

Responsibilities

Define and execute the roadmap for Analytics & Reporting Services supporting International Banking priorities and enterprise modernization objectives.
Translate business and regulatory priorities into practical technology outcomes, including clear scope, delivery milestones, operational readiness, and adoption plans.
Identify opportunities to simplify legacy reporting processes, reduce manual intervention, and improve reliability across critical business reporting services.
Provide senior-level leadership on modernization initiatives involving cloud platforms, workflow automation, analytics enablement, and reporting service consolidation.
Lead the delivery and support of management, risk, finance, regulatory, and operational reporting capabilities for International Banking.
Establish reusable information assets, reporting patterns, service standards, and controls that improve consistency and reduce duplicate effort across teams.
Enable timely, accurate, and actionable insight for executive decision-making, business performance management, regulatory submissions, and portfolio oversight.
Partner with business stakeholders to ensure requirements are understood, prioritized, traceable, and delivered through scalable technology solutions.
Drive adoption of modern engineering practices across analytics and reporting services, including automation, CI/CD, monitoring, and resilient production support.
Support modernization across cloud and analytical platforms such as Azure, GCP, Databricks, Power BI, Python, SQL, scheduling/orchestration tools, and API-based integration patterns.
Improve end-to-end platform reliability through proactive monitoring, incident reduction, root-cause analysis, service metrics, and operational health dashboards.
Ensure solutions are designed for scalability, maintainability, performance, and alignment with enterprise architecture and technology standards.
Ensure reporting and analytics services comply with Scotiabank standards for security, privacy, access management, change management, auditability, and operational controls.
Establish quality checks, reconciliation points, lineage documentation, release controls, and evidence required for audit, compliance, and regulatory expectations.
Proactively manage operational, delivery, and control risks; escalate issues with clear impact assessment, mitigation options, owners, and decision points.
Support internal audit, regulatory, and governance reviews by ensuring documentation and control evidence are complete, current, and fit for purpose.
Act as a trusted partner to senior leaders across International Banking, Finance, Risk, Operations, and Technology.
Provide clear executive updates on delivery progress, risks, dependencies, decisions required, and business impact.
Manage vendor, partner, and cross-functional dependencies to ensure commitments are delivered with transparency and accountability.
Promote a customer-focused culture that balances speed of delivery, service stability, regulatory expectations, and long-term simplification.
Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of managers, engineers, analysts, and delivery professionals across local and global locations.
Build a culture of accountability, inclusion, engineering discipline, continuous improvement, and strong partnership with business stakeholders.
Support workforce planning, talent development, succession planning, recruitment, performance management, and capability uplift aligned to future-state needs.
Create clear ownership within the team for delivery, production support, controls, stakeholder engagement, and modernization outcomes.