Technical Business Advisory; IBM Mainframe Technologies

Technical Business Advisory

This is a 12-month temporary position as a salaried contractor on payroll.

The Application Support team is responsible for providing production support and maintaining applications within Global Payments Technology that services our commercial and corporate clients. With your BA and developer teammates, the vision is to provide technical support and solutions to meet the needs of our customers.

To support the vision, we are seeking a Software Engineer who will play an important part in the team and help the team achieve the desired goals by contributing technically and analytically to meet the needs of our partners and help find solutions to the issues our customers face. You will work closely with Business Analysts and Operational Support teams to provide incident resolution and application development deliverables.

You will be expected to provide recommendations on best practices and enhancements that are in line with the bank’s technology roadmap, and work towards ensuring application reliability and stability leveraging an array of monitoring tools. You will also be in charge of an application that supports balance and transaction reconciliation reports.

• Efficiently support applications to meet business objectives by analyzing user requirements and providing technical specifications to help maintain systems according to standards. The incumbent must ensure programs and applications developed and/or supported meet the high availability, integrity and reliability of the online transaction processing environment.
• Assist the project leader or manager by providing backup support, gathering business requirements, testing, and potential development while monitoring progress of the task or project.
• Provide technical guidance and review to other team members by conducting technical walkthroughs.
• Keep current on rapidly changing technological trends, document, self‑teach new technologies and maintain an understanding of the department’s business and technology strategies.

• Comprehensive experience in mainframe development of complex programs using Cobol, JCL, IMS DB, DB2, VSAM, CA7, SAS, Netron.
• Experience working in an agile environment/methodology/deployment (e.g. GIT, Dev Ops pipeline, JIRA, Confluence).
• Experience with security and environment control systems (Endevor, ACF2), database management (e.g. IMS, DB2, VSAM, Informix).
• Development techniques such as debugging, testing, coding, documentation, and use of productivity tools.
• AIX/UNIX command‑line expertise and shell‑script programming is required.
• Quality assurance testing/BQA experience.
• Experience working in the banking industry is an asset.

• 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 performance bonus and paid vacation.

Canada — Ontario — Toronto

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.

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.