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About the Role

This senior enterprise leadership role is responsible for defining, governing, and automating engineering standards and policies across the Bank. The focus is on ensuring software development life cycle (SDLC) and architectural policies are consistently applied to drive scalability, reliability, security, and regulatory compliance. The goal is to enable rapid innovation through automated governance and streamlined capabilities, optimizing total cost of ownership and capital efficiency.

Responsibilities

Implement a multi-year strategy for automated, streamlined governance of architecture-related approval processes, including technology standards and architecture review board.
Define and implement engineering policies and standards in collaboration with enterprise platform teams, embedding governance into CI/CD pipelines as Policy-as-Code.
Define, socialize, and ensure mandatory adoption of a unified SDLC across the Bank.
Establish and govern enterprise-grade quality gates and automated validation requirements for software resilience.
Partner with Risk and Audit executives to ensure technical standards meet evolving global regulatory expectations.
Establish and govern enterprise-wide testing standards across all Lines of Business (LOBs), ensuring consistent validation of technology solutions.
Set enterprise testing principles, standards, and reference architecture, including automation standards in pipelines.
Partner with Data and AI leadership and engineering teams to enable safe, scalable adoption of agentic AI patterns within architectural, engineering, and risk guardrails.
Participate in interactions with regulators, auditors, and examiners globally.
Understand and manage the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture in architectural decisions, ensuring compliance with operational and conduct risk.
Partner with CIOs and LOB leaders to influence and embed enterprise standards into technology roadmaps.
Create an environment for effective and efficient operations, ensuring adequacy and adherence to business controls.
Build a high-performance environment and implement a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops, and motivates the team.

Requirements

Minimum 15-20+ years of progressive technology leadership in large, complex financial institutions.
Proven ownership of platforms and processes spanning architecture governance, engineering automation, and regulatory control frameworks.
Strong understanding of distributed data systems, cloud data ecosystems, and the role of metadata and semantics in AI systems.
Experience partnering with Engineering, Architecture, Security, Governance, and AI stakeholders in regulated enterprise environments.
Ability to translate complex platform capabilities into clear product strategy, roadmaps, and executive-aligned outcomes.

Skills

Architecture Engineering Governance
Automation
Policy-as-Code
CI/CD pipelines
SDLC
Quality gates
Automated validation
Testing standards
Agentic AI
Risk management
Stakeholder management

Location

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior Director
15-20+ years

Education Level

Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

Benefits

Bonus
Flexible vacation
Personal days
Sick days
Benefits start on day one
Free tea & coffee
Universal washrooms
Space for team collaboration
Opportunities for community engagement & belonging

About the Company

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas.
Purpose: 'for every future', we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

Equal Opportunity

We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank.
We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone.
Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.
If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know.