Software Engineer Full-time Job

The Team:

The Software Engineer role is a key leadership position within Global Equity Derivatives technology, responsible for servicing top revenue generating equity derivatives units worldwide (NY/TOR/LON/LATAM). Ideal candidate will have worked in financial industry, deploying in-house & vendor platforms on to public cloud, managed devops team, and directly supported Trading/FO users within capital markets.

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

• Successful candidate will be responsible for directly supporting Equity Derivatives sales and trading units across geographies and ensures equity derivatives platform availability.

• Work with business and technology stakeholders to create a multi-year roadmap for cloud deployments, and end-to-end system integrations.

• Responsible for Devops team - managing, tracking, resolving and communicating production backlog & priority to stakeholders and reducing production incidents and system downtime.

• Responsible for platform management, monitoring and alerting end-users on system issues, meeting agreed SLAs, and complying with data storage and archival policies.

• Maintain system statuses, and complying with regional regulatory requirements for production systems – Release/Incident managements/disaster-recovery etc.

• Responsible for creating availability matrix for real-time platform, and monitoring.

• Work with Enterprise teams to understand security postures, vulnerability management, infrastructure provisioning - database/network, and application log management.

• Create documentation/Confluence pages covering architecture, release notes, security and operational readiness.

• Work with PMO to forecast infra, license and other operational cost.

 

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We’d love to work with you if you have:

 

• Candidate must have a minimum of 3 to 5 years’ experience in supporting Front-office trading and sales teams across worldwide, deploying and maintaining large scale applications with complex integration, and have cloud-based deployment experience.

• Key skills – Capital market support, preferably in equity derivatives and notes and have worked on Azure Cloud, Linux, K8, any provisioning tools, Shell, Python, NoSQL.

• 2+ years of experience supporting public cloud hosted vendor SaaS Platforms.

• 2+ years of experience in automating deployment process and working with CI/CD tools.

• 4+ years of experience with monitoring tools – Grafana/Prometheus, ELK stack etc.

• The role requires leadership skills, hands-on technical experience, and a can-do approach towards environment automation / management and continuous improvement for efficiency and cost effectiveness.

• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills are essential

• Resolve complex infrastructure and application deployment issues.

• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always available service.

• Proficient with source code versioning tools (Git) and build tools (Gradle).       

 

What's in it for you?

 

• We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success!

• We provide you with the tools and technology needed to create best customer experiences

• You'll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world

• Dress codes don't apply here, being comfortable does

• Onsite cafeteria

• We offer a competitive total rewards package that includes a base salary, a performance bonus, company matching programs (on pension & profit sharing), generous vacation, personal & sick days, personal development funding, maternity leave top-up, parental leave and much more.

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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.