Data Platform Engineer

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

Global Banking and Markets (GBM) is a leading Canadian Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a growing platform in the US and Latin America, operating globally for over 100 years. Scotiabank’s strong U.S. presence provides our clients an important bridge to this key global market for trade and investment flows across the Americas and the world.

Global Banking & Markets provides a full range of investment banking, credit and risk management products and services relevant to the financing and strategic development needs of our clients. Our products include debt and equity financing, mergers & acquisitions, corporate banking, institutional equity sales, trading and research, fixed income products, derivatives, energy, foreign exchange and precious & metals. We also cross-sell the full range of wholesale products and services offered by the Scotiabank Group.

Be part of an innovative, Global Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a unique geographic footprint that puts capital to work for our clients across industries! We work together to drive ambition for every future!

The Platform Engineer will work under the guidance of Sr Engineers/Platform Leads to build, tune, manage infrastructure, Dev Ops, monitor troubleshoot, enhance, enable new features & provide Ops Support on Data & AI platform(s) as per banks Data & AI strategy. This consists of working with cross functional teams like IAM, Network, Cloud Ops, Security, Client partners etc for integration, process automation, platform enhancement and delivery of new projects.

• Guidance and
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Work closely with senior engineers and platform leads to understand goals, deliver assigned tasks, and support team objectives. Contribute to platform improvements and provide regular updates on progress.
• Technical Execution: Support the design, deployment, and maintenance of Azure and Databricks platform components. Work with Azure networking/security configurations (VNets, NSGs, route tables, private endpoints, RBAC). Assist in implementing and maintaining Databricks resources including clusters, SQL warehouses, and Unity Catalog objects.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure high quality delivery by following established coding standards, Terraform best practices, and platform validation procedures. Participate in code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD validation steps.
• Process Improvements: Contribute to automation and operational efficiency by developing reusable Terraform modules and standardizing configurations. Build and maintain IaC modules for Azure native resources and Databricks. Participate in creating SOPs, technical documentation, and onboarding guides.
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Assist in diagnosing platform issues, analyzing logs/metrics, and supporting stability efforts. Help maintain observability using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics Monitor Databricks jobs, clusters, and infrastructure health.
• Platform Reliability Support: Participate in troubleshooting sessions and contribute to meeting platform SLOs. Support incident response efforts under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Incident Management Support: Assist during incidents by gathering diagnostic data, executing remediation steps, and communicating updates to internal teams as directed by senior or on call leads.
• Observability Tooling: Help develop monitoring dashboards and alert rules for Databricks and Azure resources. Contribute to log ingestion pipelines and basic automation scripts.
• Cloud Managed Application Development: Build and support Azure resource deployments (Storage Accounts, Key Vault, Event Hub, Azure SQL) and Databricks assets (jobs, workflows, notebooks) using Terraform and Databricks Asset Bundles.
• Release Management Support: Participate in maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub Actions and Azure Dev Ops. Implement Terraform plan/apply pipelines. Help automate Databricks Bundle deployments and quality checks.
• Client Pipeline Support: Support the implementation of CI/CD workflows for…