Vice President, Engineering Tangerine Technology

Scotiabank•Toronto, ON

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Vice President, Engineering Tangerine Technology manages the delivery of IT Business solutions for Tangerine business lines, ensuring they align with the Bank's strategy. Responsible for the daily functioning, continuous maintenance, high availability, and support of the Tangerine Engineering portfolio.

Requirements

University degree in Computer Engineering / Applied Science / Technology
10+ years of Software Engineering experience
10+ years of progressively increasing leadership experience in Information Technology management data, platform, and system(s) management
10+ years of Global application development and support
5+ years of Solutions or Enterprise Architecture
2+ years of System Reliability Engineering
Strong technical communication skills with a proven ability to understand key business and technical concepts, and present them based on target audience (e.g. Senior Executives, Business Sponsors, Architects, Developers)

Responsibilities

Owning the Tangerine Engineering business relationships, technology strategy and roadmap.
Collaborating with Tangerine business lines, along with the technical and operational groups across the Bank to ensure alignment of technical solutions to the business strategy, use and deployment of best practices in business support solutions, and the alignment and application of Bank operational and security standards.
Leading and driving a customer focused culture throughout their team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, technologies, systems and knowledge.
Directing the management of application engineering and support functions to ensure all applications developed have a high degree of integrity, reliability, resiliency, and availability to meet the business need, with sensitivity to local regulatory requirements.
Leading the development and implementation of strategic plans, policies, and standards surrounding systems engineering, technology trends and strategies, information security, production application support for the business units serviced globally.
Co-owning the engineering technology budget and is responsible for planning, forecasts and achieving financial targets.
Reviewing production support, audit, security & risk issues to ensure root causes are identified, properly defined, documented and reported; ensuring issues are understood by senior management and that corrective action will be taken.
Directing day-to-day activities in a manner consistent with the Bank’s risk culture and the relevant risk appetite statement and limits. Communicating the Bank’s risk culture and risk appetite statement throughout their teams.
Creating an environment in which his/her team pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk, including but not limited to responsibilities under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and the Guidelines for Business Conduct.
Building a high-performance environment and implementing a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates the 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.