Requisition ID: 244835

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

The role:

The Domain Architecture Director plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of technology within International Banking. This role exists to define and steward a cohesive architectural vision that enables scalable, secure, resilient, and compliant platforms, while accelerating the transition toward a simplified, cloud-native technology landscape. By leading modernization and transformation initiatives, the Director ensures that the bank’s technology portfolio evolves to support business agility, operational efficiency, and innovation at scale. This includes driving distributed architectures, application modernization, platform rationalization, and cloud migration strategies that unlock long-term value.

This role is designed for a strategic leader with deep experience in financial services or digital-native banking environments—someone who can influence across executive and technical domains, and who brings a bold perspective on how technology can elevate the bank’s international ambitions.

What will you do?

• Architectural Strategy: Define and lead the design of technology solutions across the application portfolio within the assigned macro domain, enabling business transformation and legacy modernization.
• Portfolio Classification & Simplification: Own the classification of APMs into functional domains, driving simplification and rationalization to align with the target architecture.
• Currency & Compliance: Oversee remediation plans to keep systems current, secure, and compliant with enterprise and regulatory standards.
• Cloud-Ready Architecture: Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and cloud-efficient, aligned with enterprise patterns and policies.
• Technology Roadmap: Lead the domain’s technology roadmap, including capability mapping, architecture patterns, and blueprints, while managing exceptions and driving continuous improvement.
• Business Partnership: Co-create solutions with business and engineering teams from ideation to production, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and operational readiness.
• Planning & Risk Management: Drive annual technology planning, identify risks, propose mitigation strategies, and align decisions with enterprise vision.
• Platform Optimization: Lead initiatives to consolidate and modernize platforms, improving cost efficiency, resilience, and technical capabilities.
• Governance & Automation: Strengthen architecture governance through automation, ensuring compliance and proactively managing deviations
• Leadership & Coaching: Mentor architects and engineering teams, fostering technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration to ensure successful delivery of modernization initiatives.

What do you need to succeed?

Professional Experience:

• 10+ years of experience in technology architecture, including 5+ years within financial services or digital-native banks.
• Proven expertise in designing and implementing banking and cloud architectures across different cloud providers (Google, AWS, Azure).
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale migrations from on-premises to modern cloud environments.

Certifications:

• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.
• Additional certifications in AWS or Azure are highly valued. o Certifications in Enterprise Architecture (e.g., TOGAF, ArchiMate) considered an asset.

Technical Skills:

• Strong knowledge of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks like TOGAF, Zachman, ArchiMate, etc. and how to apply them pragmatically in large organizations.
• Ability to design and evaluate scalable, secure, and modular systems, aligned with cloud-native and distributed principles.
• Expertise in Microservices and API Design based on REST, GraphQL, eventdriven architecture patterns. o Experience defining target architectures, roadmaps, and reference implementation across large portfolios.
• Broad understanding of cloud native architectures, hybrid and multi-cloud environments, and migration strategies across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Knowledge about infrastructure automation, container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines to enable scalability and operational excellence.
• Capable to collaborating with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure alignment on cloud strategy, automation and resilience.
• Expertise in integration patterns, messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ), API gateways, etc.
• Solid understanding of data architecture, including data lakes, ETL pipelines, big data analytics and data governance.
• Ability to design architectures that comply with global financial regulations and data residency requirements.
• Familiar with cybersecurity architecture including Zero Trust, IAM, encryption standards and secure cloud design.
• Collaborates effectively with security and risk teams to ensure compliance and resilience across all layers of architecture (PCI DSS, GDPR, SOX, local banking regulations).
• Expertise on Risk Management: Threat modeling, vulnerability assessment.
• Strategic thinker with strong business acumen and enterprise perspective. Ability to lead multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Effective communicator able to simplify complexity and present strategies and progress to executive teams and regulators.

Language skills:

• Advanced or native English and Fluent Spanish

What's in it for you?

• We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity and curiosity and celebrates success
• We provide you with the tools and technology needed to create meaningful customer experiences
• You'll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world
• We hire you for your talent — not just a job — so you can grow with us. We’ll equip you for success not only in your role, but also in your career as a whole
• Dress codes don't apply here: being comfortable does
• Access to thousands of online and in-person courses so you can hone your current skills, or learn new ones
• A competitive rewards package that includes a base salary, a performance bonus, company matching programs on pension and profit sharing, paid vacation, personal & sick days, medical, vision, and dental and much more

Location(s):  Canada : Ontario : Toronto || Mexico : Ciudad de México : Mexico || Peru : Lima : Lima 

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.