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About the Role

The Total Wealth 360 team is seeking an experienced Salesforce Development Lead to oversee the successful delivery of complex Salesforce initiatives across the Financial Services Cloud ecosystem. This role offers a unique opportunity to work in a fast-paced, agile, and innovation-driven lab environment, partnering closely with business and technology stakeholders to ensure high-quality outcomes. The successful candidate will provide hands-on development leadership and end-to-end delivery ownership across multiple workstreams, enabling a unified single-pane-of-glass experience for Advisors by seamlessly integrating data, workflows, and insights into a cohesive and scalable platform. The Salesforce Development Lead is expected to lead teams operating under Agile Scrum and Kanban delivery models and will be accountable for driving delivery predictability, team velocity, and engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with senior Business and Technology leaders to define delivery strategy, execution plans, and roadmaps.
Deliver enterprise-scale Salesforce implementations across complex, multi-org environments.
Lead cross-functional teams across Product, Engineering, QA, Architecture, and Operations.
Lead Agile teams using Scrum and Kanban delivery models.
Manage Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
Oversee iteration planning, capacity management, dependency tracking, and delivery forecasting.
Drive code quality and delivery discipline through standards, peer reviews, and engineering best practices.
Support production stability, incident management, and root cause analysis.

Requirements

7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in a senior technical leadership or delivery role.
Deep experience with Salesforce DX, Lightning (Aura/LWC), Apex, and asynchronous processing (Batch, Queueable, Future).
Hands-on experience overseeing production deployments, sandbox strategies, rollback approaches, and enterprise release runbooks.
Strong understanding of Salesforce Flows, automation frameworks, and scalable solution patterns.
Demonstrated ability to lead Agile teams through continuous improvement, velocity optimization, and predictable delivery outcomes.
Exposure to data migration and integration tools (e.g., Data Loader, middleware platforms).
Solid foundation in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Prior experience in Banking or Financial Services, preferably Wealth Management.

Skills

Salesforce governance
Release management
Agile delivery frameworks (Scrum, Kanban)
Salesforce platform capabilities (Financial Services Cloud, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud)
Integration patterns (REST, SOAP, Bulk APIs)
DevOps and CI/CD pipelines (SFDX, Git-based source control, automated deployments)
Communication skills
Leadership skills
Stakeholder management skills
Salesforce Data Cloud
Marketing Cloud
Security and quality tools (SonarQube, Veracode, AppOmni)
Scripting (Bash, PowerShell)
Delta deployments
Test optimization
Sandbox refresh/sanitization processes

Location

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior technical leadership
Delivery role

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
Platform Developer I & II
Platform App Builder
Integration Architect
Salesforce Administrator
Salesforce Architect
Sales Cloud or Service Cloud Consultant

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.
Free tea & coffee, universal washrooms, and lots of space for team collaboration.
Opportunities for community engagement & belonging with programs such as hackathons.

About the Company

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our 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.
At Scotiabank, 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.

Equal Opportunity

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - 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.
Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - 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.
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Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role.
We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.