Product Systems Specialist, Payments & Core Banking Engineering, Scotiabank

Requisition ID: 190172
Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Contributes to the overall success of the Payments & Core Banking Engineering in Canada and globally ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team's business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

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

• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Facilitates collaborative solution discovery sessions using lightweight techniques such as Story Mapping
• Decomposes the solution into small increments of value (stories) that can be independently built and validated
• Works closely with architects and engineers to ensure a flow of stories are specified, engineered and validated
• Collaborates with team to detail acceptance criteria on stories using practices such as specification by example
• Collaborates with business stakeholders to accept built and tested stories
• Collaborates with team and business representatives to define value and guide priority
• Collaborates with the delivery team to define the overall testing approach and perform acceptance testing to validate business requirements in rapid iterations
• Performs exploratory testing and regression testing as necessary, using a risk-based approach
• Extends story specifications to align with automation testing strategies while including real world data, edge cases etc.
• Facilitates root cause analysis of defects with the team and ensures that they acts as a catalyst for continuous improvement
• Understand how the Bank's risk appetite and risk culture should be considered 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/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.
• 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? We'd love to work with you if you have:

• 5+ years experience working in Financial Industry, preferrable Business banking / Cash Management technologies
• Hands-on experience with requirements techniques commonly used in Agile teams - story mapping, journey mapping, user stories, spec-by-example and informal modeling/mapping.
• Experience doing deep analysis work in collaborative Agile software development teams
• Understanding of Agile frameworks/techniques - Kanban and Scrum.
• Working knowledge of collaboration tools such as Confluence, Jira and Mural.
• Undergraduate in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) field is preferred.
• Exceptional communication in English both written and verbal.
• Previous experience writing user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Previous experience working in the software development industry.
• Ability to learn new domain knowledge quickly and translate that into requirements.

What's in it for you?

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - 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. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.
• 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 - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, cooking with friends, Humans of Digital and much more!

Working location condition: Hybrid
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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.