Principal Platform Engineer Full-time Job

Purpose

The Principal Platform Engineer within GBME(Global Banking Markets & Engineering) Platform Engineering oversees the successful delivery of business strategies, plans and initiatives that are executed / delivered in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures.

 

Accountabilities

• Responsible for driving the direction GBME Platform Engineering, assisting management and other senior technical leaders create strategic roadmaps, and driving priorities to meet various objectives
• Manages GBME Platform Engineering, DevOps Team, overseeing workload distribution, strategy and overall delivery.
• Collaborates and makes proposals across several teams on their engineering work, and helps their team members make informed decisions in alignment with the sub-department strategic plans.
• Proactively identifies opportunities to reuse or generalize existing services and product features. Avoids duplication of effort by encouraging collaboration.
• Implement and deliver ongoing strategy to allow successful adoption of DevOps within GBME.
• Design and implement the core infrastructure components of platform that application runs on considering factors such as scalability, fault to tolerance, and security.
• Collaborate with business / application development teams to ensure the platform can support the business logic and support application workloads effectively.
• Automate product development life cycle.
• Monitor and troubleshoot platform builds to ensure optimal performance and availability. Ensure upgrades are handled in a timely manner which helps in reducing EOL currency issues.
• Accountable for and critical to building a high-trust culture environment to support psychological safety, defining structure and clarity within teams.
• Communicating the meaning and impact of work, promoting cross-pollination of knowledge within the organization, and monitoring progress and adaption to necessary changes to achieve the goals. 
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Creates an environment in which his/her team 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. 
• Builds a high-performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment and using a coaching mindset and behaviors; communicating vison/values/business strategy; and, managing succession and development planning for the team.

Education and Experience

• GBME platform engineering (Multiple business lines) – platform build, enhancement and support.
• Key Technologies - private/public cloud, Kubernetes, Rancher, Elasticsearch, Airflow etc.
• Operating costs – Reduce operation cost while maintain quality delivery. 
• Computer Science Diploma or Degree; or related work experience
• Must possess technical proficiency sufficient to effectively perform these activities.
• Requires extensive understanding of project management principles and methodology as well as Scotiabank’s IT Roadmap.

Scotiabank is one of North America's leading financial institutions, and Canada's most international bank. We provide innovative financial products and services to individuals, small and medium-size businesses, corporations and governments across Canada and around the world.