Software Engineer Specialist

Requisition ID: 253524

Thanks for your interest in ScotiaTech, Scotiabank's new and innovative Technology hub in Bogota.

Join a purpose driven winning team that promotes creativity and innovation in a fast-paced environment, where we’re always committed to results, in an inclusive, diverse, and high-performing culture.

Purpose

Contributes to the overall success of the Prime Services (GBME) in Canada ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

Accountabilities

• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.

• Partner with peer engineers, business partners, and the various GBME teams for developing solutions.

• Work closely with end users, and business teams to understand business needs, conduct gap analysis and requirements assessments as needed

• Partner with Architecture on the design and integration

• Deliver and enhance new and current solutions and applications

• Be involved in the full life cycle of a project, responsible for producing actionable and complete specifications, writing production quality code, and implementation

• Design, deliver and implement a database schema

• Design test sets and automate where possible, including functional and non-functional testing, regression testing as well as performance testing

• Write deployment scripts and leverage tools such as the Accelerator pipeline to promote code

• Support the solution in production (as needed)

• Improve the end user experience by finding scalable solutions and addressing complex ad hoc queries.

• Effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences

• Able to work with and refactor legacy code (as needed).

• Coach and train end users (as needed).

• Participate in daily stand-ups

• 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 his/her 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.

• Champions a high performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

Dimensions

• Working as part of a dynamic ecosystem of vendor and proprietary systems managed by a global team. Many opportunities to learn about many areas of capital markets.

• The opportunity to apply your skills and knowledge in making a real and meaningful improvement in the IT operations of multiple systems and delivering maximum value and stability to our users.

Education / Experience / Other Information (include only those that are specific to the role)

• 4+ years of experience with OOP Programming, Java, Enterprise Edition Java - J2EE (Servlets, JDBC, EJB, JSP, JMS), Spring Framework.

• 2+ years Webservices (Tomcat or Weblogic a plus)

• 2+ years Unix/ Shell Scripting (Bash, Perl, Python, etc.)

• 2+ years in message-oriented middleware such as JMS, IBM MQ, Tibco EMS, Kafka.

• 2+ years in UI Framework such as Vue.js, React or similar.

• 2+ years Database development with Oracle, Sybase, PL/SQL etc.

• Excellent communication skills: able to clearly communicate technical requirements to business and BA’s regularly

• Experience with Oracle and Linux platforms

• Experience with Agile methodologies and JIRA toolset in particular.

• Experience with DevOps, version control system such as Bitbucket, Checkmarkx

• Strong technical, analytical, time management, training, and presentations skills

• Must be organized and able to prioritize responsibilities and tasks to meet deadlines

• Ability to work independently as well as part of a diverse team

• Must have excellent communication skills - both verbal and written

• A recognized undergraduate degree or diploma in business administration, computer science or related field required.

• Prior development experience in a capital markets Prime Broker role or a trade booking role

• Prior experience in developing application using SOA architecture

• Experience with some automated deployment.

• Ability to communicate with key business and technology stakeholders on a daily basis

• English level advanced.

Working Conditions

• Work in a standard office-based environment; non-standard hours are a common occurrence.

Location(s): Colombia : Bogota : Bogota

ScotiaTech is a business unit within ScotiaGBS, a Scotiabank Group company located in Bogota, Colombia. The ScotiaTech hub was created to support different technology systems and processes of the Bank. We offer an inclusive, positive work environment, and competitive benefits.

At ScotiaTech, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at ScotiaTech; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.