Director - Mobile Engineering, Wealth Technology

Scotiabank

Director - Mobile Engineering, Wealth Technology

Requisition ID: 277642

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

The Director – Mobile Engineering, Wealth Technology, is accountable for leading the engineering strategy, technical direction, delivery and ongoing evolution of mobile applications and engineering capabilities across Wealth Technology.

This is a senior technology leadership role requiring strong hands-on understanding of modern mobile engineering, combined with the ability to lead engineering teams and partner effectively with Product, Design, Architecture, Cybersecurity and other Technology teams. The Director will drive engineering excellence across iOS and Android platforms, establish scalable engineering practices, and ensure mobile applications are secure, resilient, performant and positioned to evolve with emerging technologies and customer expectations.

This role will be reporting to a Senior Director in Wealth Technology. Knowledge of the Wealth Management industry, digital financial services and emerging trends in mobile technology is an asset.

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

Own the Mobile Engineering strategy and technology roadmap across Wealth Technology, covering iOS and Android applications and supporting mobile engineering capabilities.

Lead the architecture and technical evolution of mobile applications, working closely with Architecture, Product and Engineering teams to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable and aligned with enterprise technology standards.

Provide thought leadership on modern mobile technologies and engineering practices, evaluating new frameworks, SDKs, platform capabilities and development approaches against business needs and enterprise standards.

Establish and continuously improve mobile engineering standards and guardrails covering application architecture, reusable components, coding practices, performance, accessibility, testing, security and maintainability.

Drive the modernisation of mobile platforms, reducing technical debt and legacy dependencies while evolving applications towards contemporary native mobile architectures and engineering practices.

Build strong engineering capabilities across native iOS and Android development, including Swift/SwiftUI and Kotlin/Jetpack Compose, while ensuring effective integration with APIs and backend-for-frontend (BFF) services.

Champion engineering excellence and developer productivity through automation, reusable capabilities, effective development tooling, code quality practices and continuous improvement.

Drive mature CI/CD and mobile release engineering practices, enabling reliable build, testing, security scanning and deployment processes across mobile applications.

Ensure security is embedded throughout the mobile software development lifecycle, working closely with Cybersecurity and Application Security teams to proactively identify and remediate vulnerabilities and manage technology currency.

Establish strong practices for mobile application reliability, performance and observability, using application and real-user telemetry to understand customer experience, application health and production performance.

Drive comprehensive quality engineering and test automation, including unit, integration, functional, accessibility, performance and regression testing, to improve release confidence and reduce production defects.

Own the technology aspects of mobile production health, including incident response, problem management, vulnerability remediation, resiliency, technology currency and continuous improvement.

Partner with Product, UX/Design, Digital and business stakeholders to translate customer and business objectives into sustainable mobile technology solutions.

Work closely with API, BFF, platform and other engineering teams to ensure clear technical contracts, scalable integration patterns and effective end-to-end engineering.

Lead, develop and mentor engineering leaders and engineers, building a strong mobile engineering community and ensuring appropriate technical depth, succession planning and skills development.

Establish meaningful engineering health measures, including application stability, performance, automated test coverage, security and vulnerability posture, technical debt, technology currency and engineering productivity.

Manage strategic technology partners and vendors where required, ensuring their engineering practices, deliverables and technology choices meet enterprise expectations.

Effectively communicate mobile engineering strategy, investment needs, technology risks, architectural decisions and delivery considerations to senior technology and business stakeholders.

Foster a culture of engineering ownership, innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement across mobile engineering teams.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:

10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience designing, developing and operating enterprise-scale mobile applications.

Strong technical knowledge of native iOS and Android development, including Swift/SwiftUI and Kotlin/Jetpack Compose, and the mobile application development lifecycle.

Proven experience leading and developing engineering teams and engineering leaders in a large, complex technology organisation.

Strong knowledge of mobile application architecture and design patterns, modular application design, API integration and backend-for-frontend architectures.

Experience defining and implementing mobile engineering standards, reusable frameworks and technology roadmaps across multiple teams or applications.

Strong understanding of mobile security, including secure coding, authentication and authorisation, application security testing, vulnerability remediation and protection of customer information.

Experience with modern CI/CD, DevSecOps and automated testing practices for iOS and Android applications.

Experience with mobile application distribution and release processes across the Apple App Store and Google Play ecosystem.

Strong understanding of mobile observability and application performance management, including crash monitoring, performance telemetry and real-user monitoring.

Experience designing highly available and resilient digital applications and leading technology teams through production incidents and root-cause remediation.

Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures and distributed systems, including integration between mobile applications, APIs, microservices and cloud platforms.

Experience managing technology currency, SDK/framework upgrades and mobile operating-system changes, with an understanding of their impact on application compatibility, security and customer experience.

Strong architectural judgement with the ability to balance customer experience, engineering quality, security, delivery speed, maintainability and cost.

Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate complex engineering topics into clear technology and business decisions.

Experience working in Agile product and engineering organisations with multidisciplinary teams spanning Product, Design, Architecture, Engineering, Quality Engineering and Cybersecurity.

Nice to have

Experience delivering digital solutions within Wealth Management, Brokerage, Banking or another highly regulated financial-services environment.

Experience operating large-scale consumer mobile applications with significant customer and transaction volumes.

Knowledge of GCP or another major cloud platform and its use in supporting modern digital/mobile architectures.

Experience with mobile experimentation, feature management, analytics and customer-experience telemetry.

Familiarity with emerging uses of AI-assisted software engineering and generative AI in the software-development lifecycle.

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