Software Engineer Specialist-Scotiatech

Requisition ID: 249116

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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

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. Within GBME, FX, Commodities, Prime Services, Collateral Mgmt. & Funding Technology focuses on key capital markets systems within the products indicated: Foreign Exchange, Commodities, Prime Services, and Collateral Mgmt. & Funding (repurchase agreements)

The Role

Commodities Technology is seeking an experienced engineer to support the team, focusing on the software currency project. This role involves maintaining and upgrading software components approaching end-of-life to ensure stability and compliance.
The successful candidate will have a results-oriented and curious mindset with strong technical skills. You will have strong sense of ownership for system stability and will be responsible for analysing, maintaining and upgrading software components approaching end-of-life. You will have strong technical and dev ops skills with hands on development responsibilities. This role requires hands-on development experience and close collaboration with cross-functional teams, including infrastructure, security, database, and application teams

Accountabilities

• partner with peer engineers and various GBME teams for maintaining and upgrading software components.
• Work closely with system owners to understand requirements from end of life, compliance standpoint, conduct gap analysis and requirements assessments as needed
• Be involved in remediating code vulnerabilities (code or library reference), responsible for producing actionable and complete specifications, writing production quality code, and implementation.
• Design test sets and automate where possible, including functional and non-functional testing, regression testing as well as performance testing
• Able to work with and refactor legacy code (as needed).
• Participate in daily stand-ups

Education / Experience / Other Information

• Strong experience in enterprise application development and upgrade projects.
• 5 years’ experience with OOP Programming, Java, Enterprise Edition Java - J2EE (Servlets, JDBC, EJB, JSP, JMS), Spring Framework, Spring Boot. Scala language experience is a plus.
• 3 + years Webservices (Tomcat or Weblogic a plus)
• 3 + years Unix/ Shell Scripting (Bash, Perl, Python, etc.)
• 3 + years in message-oriented middleware such as JMS, Kafka, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ
• 3 + years Database development with Oracle, Sybase, PL/SQL etc.
• Excellent communication skills: able to clearly communicate technical requirements BA’s and various technology teams regularly
• Experience with Oracle and Linux platforms
• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, version control system such as Bitbucket, Jenkins, etc.
• Experience in in-memory data grid technology such as Hazelcast
• Experience in Apache Airflow
• Strong technical, analytical, time management, training, and presentations skills
• Must be organized and able to prioritize responsibilities and tasks to meet deadlines
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a diverse team
• Must have excellent communication skills - both verbal and written
• A recognized undergraduate degree or diploma in business administration, computer science or related field required.