Commodities Application Support Specialist

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Requisition : 238659

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Please note that the Salary Range shown is a guideline only. Salary offered may vary based on factors, including, but not limited to, the successful candidate’s relevant knowledge, skills, and experience.

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

Global Banking and Markets

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 GBME
- Commodities, FX Options & Derivatives Technology team supports the Global Banking and Market Commodities business. This is an opportunity to work in the fast-moving and exciting world of Commodities Derivatives Trading. We are looking for an energetic and strategic thought leader with Commodities Trading & Technical background to join this dynamic team and take on a challenging and exciting role.

The Application Support Specialist will be responsible for providing responsive application level and back-end support of components and services for critical trading applications used by the Commodities Sales and Trading business, with emphasis on the Metals business. This will include support around production and non-production application deployments, application support and end of day batches.

You will be responsible for handling application-level issues on mission critical systems requiring same day resolution. Often, resolution determination requires interaction with other teams onsite and remotely. Considerable effort is placed into determining, developing and delivering procedures to protect production environments from unplanned outages.

You will also provide technical assistance to Front Office, Middle, and Back Office users, and implement automated procedures to solve complex problems. This can involve performing analysis on issues in support of solution development and facilitating dialogue with any other business and technical groups.

While your role will be with the Commodities technology group as a whole, a key component will be understanding and support of our metals business; your prior knowledge of the metals business will be heavily used.

We are looking for a results-oriented, creative, highly motivated individual with a curious mindset, strong business product and leadership skills, deliver excellence passionate for challenges and want to contribute to the success of the Bank.

Please note that this role can be seated out of either our New York City, Dallas, or Houston offices. The compensation range currently posted is reflective of our New York City salary band, and if hired in either Dallas or Houston this range is subject to a regional adjustment.

Work closely with Sales, Traders in the commodities business, with your primary focus being the metals business.

Collaborate with the cross functional teams including engineering & development, business lines and other technology and product teams to build the right products with high quality, on time and within budget.

Perform analysis and understand business…