IT Solutions Architect

**Requisition ID**: 231160

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**

**Accountabilities**
- Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
- Building, architecting, designing, and implementing highly distributed global based systems.
- Modernizing legacy systems or similar transformational initiatives.
- Author architectural patterns to help assessment teams improve and develop their processes.
- Socialize with larger audiences using reporting, real-time dashboards, and hosting education sessions.
- Act as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation, and analysis efforts
- Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution.
- Assure quality security and compliance requirements are met for supported area.
- Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment.
- Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner.
- The role requires interaction with business and technology leadership, consequently effective communications commensurate with the audience and the ability to promote an idea and gain consensus is critical.
- Responsible for the Implementation of a trusted governance model where architecture assessments are automated based on enterprise standards and policies.
- Helping drives the implementation of trusted policies and standards with the help internal teams such as Security, Infrastructure, Data, etc.
- Deployment of a technology solution that will implement the trusted governance framework, policies and workflows.
- Challenge the solution architect’s way of thinking by implementing architectural design principles to improve the bank’s security, resiliency and technology footprint.
- Continuously research current and emerging technologies and propose changes were needed.
- Inform various stakeholders about any issues with the current technical solutions being implemented.
- Create designs and reference architectures for enterprise
- 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/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.
- Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

**Education / Experience / Other Information**

**Skill set for the role**
- 5+ years of experience required on data architecture (prioritized):

- Hands-on experience in defining and implementing data mesh principles across multiples domains
- Proven expertise in dimensional modeling (Star and Snowflake schema).
- In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with Data Vault 2.0 modeling.
- Experience designing enterprise data architecture using modern Lakehouse, Datalake and Warehouse patterns.
- Proficient in designing logical, physical, and canonical data models aligned with business domains.
- Experience working with metadata management and catalogs.
- Strong knowledge of master data management MDM, data lineage and data governance best practices.
- Knowledge of data privacy regulations and secure data architecture design.
- Technical Proficiency in:

- Python expert.
- Open Format Table expert (Delta Lake or Iceberg or Hudi).
- Azure / GCP cloud professional data architect certification.
- GCP Dataplex expert.
- Databricks Unity Catalog expert.
- Spark y/o Flink expert.

**Must Have Skills**:

- React (Front-end) - 5+ years of hands-on experience
- Node.js (Backend for front-end layer) - 5+ years of hands-on experience

**Nice To Have Skills**:

- Scotiabank experience (Digital Factory)
- Agile/Scrum - FI/Banking experience (Scotiabank preferred*)
- Active scotiabank users
- Knowledge of the use of: Jenkins(CI), sonar, Checkmarx, fortify, blackduck
- Knowledge of Security Concepts such as SSL, Certificates, Key Store/Trust Store
- BitBucket, JIRA, Confluence

**Soft Skills**:

- Results driven.
- Hit the ground running.
- Strong communication skills (written & verbal), interacting with Product, Design and Back-end Teams.
- Sense of urgency.
- Great communication skills.
- Obstacles removal.
- Proactive to find solutions to new problems.
- High accountability.
- English B2/C1.
- Teamwork.

**Working Conditions**

Work in a standard office-based environment; non-standard hours are a common occurrence.

LI-Hybrid

COLGBS

Location(s): Bogotá or Home-Office

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