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Technical Lead Analyst - Billing & Pricing Platforms

Scotiabank
Toronto, CAN
Full Time
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3 days ago
Microservices ArchitectureREST APIsEvent Driven SystemsKafkaJavaSpring Boot
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The Role

  • Contributes to the overall success of the Global Payments Technology in Canada and globally.
  • Ensures specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed/delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives.
  • All activities conducted are following governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

What You’ll Do

  • Own end to end delivery for platform support team, ensuring solutions are scalable, reliable, and aligned to business outcomes.
  • Lead a cross functional team (engineering + QA), driving execution, accountability, and high quality delivery.
  • Partner with Product Owners and stakeholders to translate business objectives into technical solutions and deliverables.
  • Own and manage the team backlog, ensuring proper prioritization across features, defects, technical debt, and operational improvements.
  • Drive and maintain the team’s roadmap, ensuring alignment with business priorities and platform strategy.
  • Collaborate with architects to define system design, API contracts, and service interactions aligned to enterprise standards.
  • Provide hands on technical leadership through design reviews, troubleshooting, and guidance on complex implementations.
  • Drive sprint planning, backlog refinement, and delivery commitments with a focus on predictability and outcomes.
  • Identify and close gaps in existing processes, workflows, and delivery models to improve efficiency and reduce friction.
  • Own production stability, including incident management, root cause analysis, and permanent fixes.
  • Work closely with QA to ensure quality is embedded early through test strategy and automation.
  • Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks, and drive mitigation plans.

What You'll Bring

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with proven experience leading teams and owning delivery.
  • Strong experience delivering solutions in microservices architecture, REST APIs, and event driven systems (Kafka or similar).
  • Hands on technical expertise (e.g., Java/Spring Boot, databases) with the ability to guide and review engineering work.
  • Experience managing engineering backlogs and roadmaps, balancing business priorities with technical health.
  • Strong understanding of system design, integrations, and distributed systems.
  • Proven ability to drive end to end delivery, not just requirement definition or documentation.
  • Experience improving team efficiency, delivery predictability, and process maturity.
  • Strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum practices with a focus on outcome driven execution rather than ceremonies.
  • Experience working with Product Owners and stakeholders to align on priorities while challenging and refining requirements.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills across business, operations, and engineering teams.
  • Experience supporting production systems, including incident management, root cause analysis, and operational excellence.

Key Expectations from this Role

  • Drive measurable improvements in delivery timelines, backlog health, and operational efficiency.
  • Reduce production defects and operational escalations through better engineering practices.
  • Establish clear ownership and accountability within the team.
  • Continuously improve processes to remove inefficiencies and enhance team productivity.
  • Ensure alignment between roadmap, backlog, and delivered outcomes.

Why This Role Is for You

  • You want to lead a large scale modernization program that is transforming how payments are executed in Canada.
  • You’re motivated by solving complex, real world problems in a highly visible and mission critical environment.
  • You bring a strong technical mindset, but prefer to lead, guide, and enable teams rather than focus solely on hands on development.
  • You thrive in environments that require both structure and adaptability.
  • You value impact, ownership, and continuous growth.

What's in it for you?

  • You’ll join a team focused on building cloud platforms as products, enabling delivery teams across the enterprise.
  • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship We strive to create an inclusive culture.
  • Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations We are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment.
  • Upskilling through online courses, cross functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
  • Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days, and benefits will start on day one.
  • Community Engagement opportunities for community engagement & belonging.

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