information technology (IT) director

Title posted on CareerBeacon - IT Director, International Banking Digital Platforms

Posted on June 21, 2025 by Employer details Scotiabank

Job details

Requisition ID: 228518Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture. Purpose This role is crucial for overseeing the development and support of our IB digital banking platforms, including onboarding and servicing capabilities across the international footprint. They own the platforms that handle value proposition discovery, growth, client onboarding, product onboarding and fulfilment, day-to-day banking, servicing, advisory, and payment needs across mobile and web technologies, including omni-channel capabilities extending to branches, remote branches and digitally assisted models, and underlaying process orchestration. This position requires a leader who can drive platform engineering practices, instill an Agile and DevOps mindset, and champion site reliability engineering and platforms security. They will lead engineering teams and play a pivotal role in co-leading solution design, together with Architecture and Business partners, ensuring solutions enable the client-centric value proposition and scalable operating model transformation of International Banking, to ensure that the strategy becomes reality. This role requires a leader who can balance technical excellence with strategic insight, co-leading solution design and fostering a culture of innovationAccountabilities Engineering Leadership:Lead and manage a senior team of Directors and Senior Managers focused on building and evolving client banking platforms for diverse client segments. Foster an Agile, DevOps and SRE culture across teams, emphasizing continuous discovery and delivery, and Day 2 maturity.Drive platform engineering practices and deep technical skills, ensuring scalability, security, and performance are synergistic with accelerated value delivery. Platform Ownership and Strategy:Own and evolve global platforms that meet the day-to-day banking, servicing, and payment needs of diverse client segments, with a focus on platform capabilities.Align platform strategies with business goals, enhancing client experience and operational efficiency, leading with innovation.Lead efforts to enhance platform-driven business capabilities through collaborative, cross-functional teamwork, cutting-edge technologies and modern practices.Solution Delivery:Co-lead the design of solutions with in-Country Engineering Heads, through a platform lens. Develop cloud-native and scalable capabilities aligned with business and client needs.Oversee the end-to-end delivery of global solutions and initiatives within the portfolio, to deliver high-quality technology products while maximizing client and business value.Ensure seamless operation of mobile, web, API, event and orchestration platforms, including high performance, stability and reliability.People Leadership:Lead and coach a high performing, engaged, and diverse team Promote a value-flow aligned, agile work environment focused on delivering client value.To develop a high performing and healthy organization, foster a generative culture of innovation, collaboration, continuous learning and psychological safety across multi-disciplinary teams in their sphere of influence.Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.Enterprise Behaviors:Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.Understand how the Bank's risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.Actively 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 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. Education and Experience Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, information s