Senior Application Specialist Jobs

Requisition ID: 179172

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Team

The Client Data Services team within Global Wealth Management Technology is responsible for the development, stability and resiliency of the KYC Webservices and the KYC platform and its ecosystem of applications. It serves the customers of Wealth business lines, like iTrade and Scotia Mcleod and has various applications like SCORE and SONLINE Brokerage platform consuming its Webservices. The team is known for excellence in delivery, and its management fosters a culture of team self organization, collaboration and inclusiveness.

The Role

• Reporting to the Senior Manager Development, Global Wealth Management Technology, the Application Speicliast / Tech Lead will be responsible for providing design solutions, code reviews, integration, testing, deployment as well as be a supporting as second level support on 7x24 production support

Is this role right for you?

• Provide high level input and assessment of design and architectural documentation and decision
• Handling production support escalation during the day as well as off-hours.
• Provide design and technical solutions for several deliverables using best age technology.
• Interface with Scotiabank infrastructure teams to maintain and support infrastructure and services under management
• Lead by example and mentor growing developers in the team.
• Guide develop software following sound software engineering principles in an agile (Scrum) process and lead design sessions and code / design reviews
• Lead root cause analysis to in-scope systems, identify improvements, and drive to implementation
• Support enterprise wide services including authentication, provisioning, federation, and directory platforms
• Work collectively within a dynamic team to actively participate and lead configurations and support of solution deployment in accordance with designs
• Develop operational plans, processes, and procedures to improve service delivery and resiliency
• Ensures that best practices and development guidelines are met as well as enhances guidelines as required

Skills You Need To Succeed

• Minimum of 12 plus years of experience in developing and supporting large, complex, highly available enterprise systems
• Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, as well as strong problem-solving skills coupled with the ability to collaborate with and lead teams toward resolution.
• Strong Java or similar OO programming skills and experience in developing REST services, Microservices (e.g. using Java Spring Framework).
• Unit testing experience such as familiarity with JUnit, Mockito, Spy, Reflection etc.
• Ability to design solutions , act as a Tech Lead, perform code reviews and provide Level 2 immediate Prod escalation resolution.
• Competent in SQL /PL SQL database practices
• Competent in enterprise application delivery and design techniques
• Competent in design patterns, releases/version control, Java, J2EE, Web Services (SOAP & REST), Microservices, Java Script, Spring, Spring Boot, Junit, XML, JSON, Shell script, Spring Batch
• Sound DBMS knowledge (e.g., Oracle) and understanding of network topologies and common network protocols and services (e.g., TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, etc.
• Proficiency with Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines (e.g., Jira, Jenkins, Gradle, Bitbucket, Artifactory etc.)

Nice-to-have

• Some familiarity Kafta / Queue and Messaging applications
• Solid experience working on infrastructure centric platforms and advanced working knowledge of the server and network configurations both for deployment and at run-time
• Experience with cloud and container technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes & GCP) as we aim to build self-serve products on a cloud platform
• Familiarity with SAML, OpenID, OAUTH protocols

What's in it for you?

• Access to thousands of online and in person courses so you can brush up on skills or learn new ones
• Career progression opportunities. We hire you for your talent and not just for the job. We want to see you succeed not just in your role but in your career as a whole
• Performance bonus, Share Ownership Program and Pension Plan Matching
• We offer a competitive rewards package
• We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success!
• Dress codes don't apply here, being comfortable does
• Health Benefits from day one!
• Currently all our teams are working fully remotely
• Remote work continuation to be considered post pandemic

Global Wealth Management Technology supports the end-to-end technology needs of Scotiabank’s Wealth business, including a broad range of Wealth products and services from Direct Investing to full-service advisors, Trusts and Private Investment Councils. Joining our team gives you access to great opportunities with a wide range of traditional and emerging technologies while delivering innovative solutions for our business applications and platforms

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. If you require technical assistance, please click here. 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.