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Scotiabank Solutions Architect (Hybrid) in Scarborough, Ontario
Solutions Architect (Hybrid)
Requisition ID: 203987
Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.
Looking for a hybrid role? We have the job for you! Our employees in hybrid roles can alternate between work from home & onsite in the office with the details to be determined, based on business needs.
The team:
Scotiabank’s Global Technology and Enterprise Platform (GTEP), Solutions Integration & Delivery (SI&D) organization is deeply rooted and integrated into Scotiabank’s business lines. The SI&D team supports strategic and operational goals with our global CIOs and business stakeholders to deliver high quality and highly performing enterprise infrastructure services.
The role:
Reporting to the Director, Solutions Engineering, you will be a part of a team that’s responsible for working closely with application owners and leadership teams, across all business areas globally, to provide reliable, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure solutions. You are expected to provide technical insights in the engineering & design of infrastructure solutions and drive forward the bank’s Public Cloud Acceleration strategy. In this technology leadership role, you will also be a part of establishing design patterns for Public Cloud migration, as well as proving mentorship to the infrastructure and application development teams in their Public Cloud journey.
When required, you could be assisting on major incidents.
Is this role right for you?
You are passionate about leveraging public cloud infrastructure to achieve agility, efficiency, and higher degree of security in deploying business applications.
You like to work with application engineering teams in designing and implementing highly available and scalable solutions leveraging IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS model to match specific business and technology needs.
You enjoy learning more about emerging technologies and leverage those effectively to meet business needs.
You are keen to harvest innovations from client solutions into design patterns for future use.
You are prepared to foster technical vitality across the Solutions Engineering team by ensuring all staff develop comprehensive plans to increase their knowledge and skill level in public cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings.
You are comfortable in solving complex hybrid cloud integration challenges.
Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role?
You can demonstrate excellent communication (verbal/written/presentation) skills to confidently convey ideas & recommendations on solution(s) to both a business & technical audience of decision maker(s) and/or stakeholders. The ability to do the same in Spanish and/or French is an asset.
You have at least 8+ years of technical working experience in working closely with Application Teams to provide comprehensive solutions across a broad infrastructure service area, such as servers, Operating Systems, storage, networks, virtualization, middleware, and database platforms.
You have at least 4+ years of hands-on technical working experience in architecting & deploying full-stack applications in Public Cloud (GCP & Azure preferred).
You have at least 4+ years of hands-on technical working experience in the end-to-end design/planning/implementation of the migration of applications from an internal on-prem data center to the Public Cloud.
You have at least 2+ years of hands-on technical working experience with Kubernetes (k8s), CI/CD pipeline, and the infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) toolset.
You can clearly demonstrate the ability to influence staff & senior management and, as well, promote a high level of understanding and acceptance of the risks, issues and practices of outsourcing and cloud-based services in a rapidly evolving, competitive world.
You can demonstrate an advanced technical understanding of emerging technologies, operational best practices, development methodologies and technical architecture that would be beneficial to Scotiabank’s global Infrastructure.
Technical knowledge of data analytics platforms & Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) capabilities is an asset.
You have a post-secondary education in Computer Science or Engineering or in a relevant field.
An asset to have completed a Public Cloud Architect certification (GCP and/or Azure and/or AWS) in good standing.
What's in it for you?
We are technology partners who help the business transform how our employees around the world work.
You'll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world.
We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success! We also foster an environment of innovation and continuous learning.
We care about our people, allowing them to design how they work to deliver amazing results.
We offer a competitive total rewards package, including a performance bonus, company matching programs (pension & Employee Share Ownership), generous vacation; health/medical/wellness benefits; employee banking privileges.
As a part of our Hybrid Work Model, when required to be onsite, our primary office in Scarborough is:
Renovated with a design focus on enabling collaboration through both environment and technology.
Furnished with an onsite cafeteria that serves hot foods (breakfast & lunch), salads, sandwiches, snacks & hot/cold drinks.
Our lounges have TV’s, fridges, microwaves, complimentary hot beverage stations & water dispensers.
Minutes from the 401 & DVP. Free onsite & offsite employee parking. Charging stations for electric vehicles onsite.
Accessible by TTC bus from Eglinton subway station on Line 1 or from Warden subway station on Line 2 or from Kennedy station on Lines 2/3. When it begins to operate, the Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit’s Birchmount stop is steps away.
Kennedy GO Station on the Stouffville line & Scarborough GO Station on the Lakeshore East line, with connecting TTC buses, can get you to this worksite.
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Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Scarborough
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. 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. If you require technical assistance, pleaseclick here (https://www.scotiabank.com/careers/en/careers/technical-support-for-applicants.html) . 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.
