Requisition ID: 175629

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.
Business Architect, Scotia Digital
Contributes to the overall success of the Digital Banking Engineering MicroServices team in Canada ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team\xe2\x80\x99s business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are incompliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures
Is this role right for you?

• . Act as the bridge between multiple parties including: our business, control functions, technology partners and our engineering teams, responsible for delivering exciting products in the Digital Banking Unit. The Business Architect will be involved in both the project discovery and execution phases.
• Work with Digital Banking stakeholders (e.g., Product, Design, Engineering, Business Operation, PMO) and contribute to the requirement gathering, estimation, and backlog grooming activities.
• Drive or participate in high-level E2E solutioning and estimations by working closely with business and software architects of MicroService engineering teams, client application teams (Mobile, Web, etc.) as well as the backend teams
• Translate complex problems and challenges into viable technical options and recommendations, Influence business, product, and engineering decisions with solid understanding of the banking systems and technical expertise.
• Manages prioritization, solutioning, and estimation of change requests
• Support project delivery by providing clarifications on scope and requirements as needed.
• Oversee the delivery life cycle to ensure business and functional goals are met with each delivery.
• Accountable for managing the engineering backlogs of selected Microservice
• Conduct analysis on non-project driven requests (e.g tech debts, new architectural directions, high priority production issues) and turn them into executable backlog items
• Prioritize backlogs items from various sources (Product, Engineering, Support) with the support of Technical Product Managers; Ensure there is a balance between project delivery and non-project driven priorities
• Collaborate with Senior Development Managers to align project timelines and forecast team capacity
• Serve as the SME of assigned MicroServices, oversee all past and future changes and make suggestions on improvements as needed.
• Maintain MicroServices documentations to ensure that information are up to date and easily accessible by both internal and external teams.
• Champions a customer focused culture, build and maintain relationships with stakeholders such as digital product team and business line
• Understand how the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Support process improvement to increase efficiency of the team for project kick-off, project planning and handover, project execution, and project reconciliation
• Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role?

• . University degree in technology, computer science, engineering OR equivalent experience
• 7 or more years in business analyst leadership/ functional architect roles within Engineering/Technology
• Experiences working with the middle-tier services for a customer facing front-end application, which sits in a larger scale ecosystem whose size is comparable to a bank
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with demonstrated ability to work with ambiguity, ask the right questions and make decisions under pressure.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to explain complex information for both technical and non-technical audience and to influence decision making across stakeholders.
• Team player who enjoys collaborating with, learning from, and coaching others so we all become better.
• Having an agile mindset and being able to adapt to a dynamic environment with changing priorities
• Demonstrated ability to be result-oriented, proactive, and reliable.
• Previous working experience in Agile/Scrum software delivery model.

Bonus points:

• Experiences with retail or small business digital banking

• Experiences with project and/or team capacity planning

What\'s in it for you?

• We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity and curiosity and celebrates success!
• We provide you with the tools and technology needed to create meaningful customer experiences.
• You\'ll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world.
• We hire you for your talent \xe2\x80\x94 not just a job \xe2\x80\x94 so you can grow with us. We\xe2\x80\x99ll equip you for success not only in your role, but also in your career as a whole.
• Dress codes don\'t apply here: being comfortable does.
• Our work from home social channel offers weekly virtual yoga, social events, learning opportunities, and contests to share current experiences & promote wellbeing in our new remote environment.
• Access to thousands of online and in-person courses so you can hone your current skills, or learn new ones.
• A competitive rewards package that includes a base salary, a performance bonus, company matching programs on pension and profit sharing, paid vacation, personal & sick days, medical, vision, and dental benefits that start from day one and much more!

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

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. 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.