Support Engineer Specialist

 Requisition ID: 232223

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

Contributes to the overall success of the Department / Business Area in Canada / Country / Region / 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.     

Accountabilities

• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Works closely with end-users, Business Analysts, and team members to understand business requirements that drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions.  Must take an interest in understanding the business functions of the end-users.
• Investigate, analyze, develop and maintain a strong knowledge of trading workflows, technology and market structure to ensure most streamlined approaches are implemented
• Participate in meetings/stand ups with stakeholders to prioritize development tasks aligned with business goals.
• Contributes to the design of new applications and undertakes enhancements.
• Makes recommendations towards the development of new code or reuse of existing code
• Involved in the full software development life cycle and is responsible for designing, coding, testing, implementing and supporting application software that is delivered on time and within budget.
• Show initiative to prepare and document artefacts that is important to the team
• Prepare and support application releases intended for implementation to UAT and Production environments
• Perform support of production trading applications to troubleshoot and quickly resolve any issues or questions.
• Provide after hours support via an on-call pager on a rotational basis especially for application releases during a maintenance window or for other maintenance activities. 
• 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

• Motivating, time-management skill is required
• Strong programming background, ideally including developing real-time, event-driven applications.
• Hands on with development tools and languages such as Java 8+, Spring Boot, Hibernate
• Experience in relational SQL development with MSSQL databases as well as understanding of general database objects and structures
• Experience with UNIX Shell scripting in Linux environments
• Hands on experience with Angular 11+/React, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap
• Proficient with SCM, Build and CI/CD tools such as Git/Github/Bitbucket, Artifactory, Maven, Jenkins/Cloudbees
• Strong understanding of development best practices, TDD, test automation, and code quality
• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills to be able to take oral and written business requirements and develop efficient code to meet set deliverables
• Ability to break down technical information and disseminating it to senior non-technical management
• Need to be able to multi-task and work on multiple platforms and multiple projects concurrently.
• Excellent problem solving, analytical and critical thinking is expected
• Experience developing Micro services, architecture, and design patterns, including event based micro service deployments
• Willing to learn new technologies i.e. Kafka
• Bilingual English/Spanish language skills (B2 English level)

Working Conditions

When required, non-standard office working hours for scheduled implementations or while on rotational 24x7 on-call support.

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Location(s): Bogotá or Home-Office

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.

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