Software Engineer Specialist

Description

Summary: Join a purpose-driven team at Scotiabank's ScotiaTech hub, boosting capital markets products and analytics platforms through innovative solutions. Highlights: 1. Work on market leading solutions in a fast-paced environment 2. Apply analytical skills to design and develop excellent applications 3. Collaborate with great teams and inspiring leaders Requisition ID: 259357 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** **The Team** Global Banking and Markets Engineering (GBME) is the fast\-moving, award\-winning technology engine that powers Scotiabank’s Corporate, Investment Banking and Capital Markets businesses. **The Role** GBME is searching for Software Engineers who are continuous learners and are eager to boost capabilities of capital markets products and analytics platforms. The successful candidate will have a strong technical and engineering mindset. You will work closely with business teams and cross functional engineering leaders to develop and implement market leading solutions for the various projects within GBME. **About the Job** Do you thrive when faced with challenges? Like using fresh technologies to solve problems? Looking to work in various projects across the organization, collaborating with great teams and inspiring leaders? Then this is the right team for you! In this exciting role, you’ll apply your analytical skills to design and develop applications that deliver excellence, effectiveness, and value to our business partners and customers. **Accountabilities** * Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge. * Work closely with technology and business teams to understand current state processes, and document processes and standard operating procedures (SOPs) as needed * 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). * Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be incorporate into 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 and ATF sanctions and conduct risk. * Champions a high\-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment. **Education** **Technical Qualifications** * 4\+ years’ experience developing, deploying, and maintaining large scale applications with complex integration. * 2 \+ years’ experience reading, writing, and running SQL scripts. * Recent experience documenting technology system processes and standard operating procedures (SOPs) * Experience with UNIX Shell scripting in Sun Solaris/Linux environments * Experience working in an Agile environment, with experience and understanding of Test\-Driven Development methodology. * Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering or relevant experience. **Soft Skills** * Excellent communication and presentation skills. * Work as a contributing member of a team. * Values quality, while still managing expectations and deliverables. * Open to ideas and gives and receives feedback well. **Preferred Qualifications** * Experience documenting technology system processes * Experience with some automated deployment * Understanding of networking protocols and security principles * Capital Markets product knowledge * Experience working with real\-time, high availability and low latency systems **Working Conditions** Work in a standard office\-based environment; non\-standard hours are a common occurrence. \#LI\-Hybrid 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.