Purpose

Scotia Tech Global Business Services team is looking for an experienced developer who enjoys technology and is comfortable working with both technical and business staff in ensuring systems are designed and maintained according to enterprise architectural standards.  With the need to modernize the bank, our department is embarking on a modernization journey transforming the legacy mainframe applications to Cloud.  Chosen candidate will play a critical role in this modernization journey and work closely with the Cloud platform modernization.

You´ll belong to Scotia Tech Global Business Services BPM CoE and will receive training and support for becoming a Pega Developer Senior.  The team is responsible for the development of Pega based applications for the bank processes, products and services.

The candidate will provide application support on projects as part of Scotiabank’s Wealth Digital Client Services group. The agile developer will also provide support and counsel ensuring technology teams and business areas understand all the options and technology choices in support of their business. The agile developer works to become an application and business expert with strong leadership and facilitation skills with the ability to work well with others.

The incumbent will develop complex components as part of the development team.  The incumbent will create shippable code early, and often, based on the priorities for any given iteration, end user needs and feedback.

Collaborating with team members, they utilize agile best practices and metrics to build high quality technology solutions in line with product’s vision.

You will be expected to learn Pega development skills in an intense training program and become Pega CSA certified within 4 months of hire.

Accountabilities

1. Iteratively develop, test, deploy, maintain and enhance high quality BPM software solutions
2. Design robust, high volume applications that are highly scalable and extensible
3. Promote the reuse of components, and BPM Architecture, platform best practices and standard enterprise frameworks and guidelines
4. Participate on an ongoing, active and concurrent basis as technical consultant, informing design, development, coding, testing, and debugging of new / packaged solutions or significant enhancements to existing applications to deliver the best possible application performance
5. Contribute clear and maintainable code to a shared codebase
6. Participate in estimating, tasking, status and stand-up meetings in agile work ceremonies
7. Adopt / evolve team development practices such as coding standards, formal refactoring techniques, automated testing, continuous integration, etc.
8. Partner with, welcome input and provide feedback to team members in order to build in a continuous improvement mindset
9. Seek and integrate feedback from Product Owner to deliver optimal solutions
10. Collective ownership of project delivery, As a member of full-stack team, be accountable for delivery as well as support for production issues if called upon.

Education / Experience

1. 3+ years of experience in information technology, developing and supporting Java centric enterprise solutions for finance services companies (either as direct employee or through vendors/contractors).
2. Assess and analyze technology options to evaluate BPM/ business process management – Platforms that meet business needs (ie. IBM Lombardi, Bonitasoft, Oracle BPM, BizAgi, Ultimus).
3. Strong Java (J2EE - JSP, Servlets, EJB, XML, NodeJS),
4. OS experience in Unix/Linux shell skills.
5. Experience in Websphere or Weblogic Application Server are a plus
6. SQL Databases and related security model (DB2 a plus)
7. Experience in Middleware integration (SOAP, Rest, MQ/Ques, File listeners, email messaging, etc.)
8. Understanding and experience with Spring Framework
9. Experience with API management and developing microservices
10. Solid understanding of DevOps for deployment and Git/Bitbucket repositories.
11. Strong understanding of cloud concepts and development practices (Continuous integration and Containers Dockers/Kubernetes).
12. A positive attitude and a reliable, self-motivated, team player with excellent communication, problem-solving and analytical skills.
13. Previous production support experience. Incident/ Problem life cycle management, reporting problem, triage issue, and closure of issues.
14. Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science or technical equivalent
15. Good to have: experience with rule engines (ie. Drools, IRules, OpenRules)
16. Good to have: Software Architecture postgraduate.
17. Good to have: mainframe development experience and enterprise architecture knowledge/experience.
18. Good to have: experience in cloud services development (ie Azure, AWS, Google)