Sr. Python Developer

Story Behind the Need

• Business group: GBME - Risk Technology – technology team that supports all of global banking and markets technology. Global Banking and Markets Engineering (GBME) is the fast-moving, award-winning technology engine that powers Scotiabank’s Corporate and Investment Banking and Capital Markets businesses.

• Program: Audit related initiative to meet regulatory requirements. Seeking capture risk on asset-backed security products and be able to scale these simulations on the cloud platform utilizing vendor market data and vendor pricing models

• Reason for request: New project requirements

 

Candidate Value Proposition

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with a dynamic and experienced team of software developers, infrastructure specialists, and business analysts, as well as gaining experience in the capital markets and credit risk technology fields. The project will contribute to the bank’s core risk management and reporting functions, helping to protect the bank and its customers.

 

Typical Day in Role:

• Project aims to modernize the data extraction, transformation, calculation, loading function, and generating reports.

• Please note that calculation in GCP is central to this role

• Primary function is to deliver technology solution to address business needs while modernizing the technology stack.

• Producing thorough, clear, and detailed documentation.

• Advise on modern frameworks and architectures, best practices, and integrating upgraded technology into existing systems.

• Communicating with stakeholders to ensure they are implementing best practices, integrating existing technologies, etc.

• Leveraging existing infrastructure to communicate information between systems and applications.

• Will be working on creating net new code and enhancement of existing code in a 50/50 capacity, depending on project deliverables.

• Working collaboratively with project team, participating in scrums and meetings, implementing all steps of SDLC.

• Enhancing existing code base to integrate with new system

• Supporting the team’s daily business activities as required

• Read Java code to convert to Python

 

Must Have Skills:

• 10+ years’ development experience with a focus on using Python hands-on

• 5+ years’ experience with GCP Cloud computation

• 3+ years’ recent experience with Linux/Unix Shell Scripting

• 5+ years’ relational database experience, SQL, Postgres, or similar system

• Strong experience in an Agile environment and the SDLC

 

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Experience refactoring Java code is an asset

• Banking or Capital Markets experience is an asset

• Experience with Rest API is an asset

 

Soft Skills:

• Good communication, both written and oral, whether producing documentation or attending meetings with other developers, non-technical team members, or external stakeholders

• Proactively raise issues as they are identified

• Creativity and resourcefulness in solving problems within the framework of the existing technology stack

• Willingness to learn and upgrade skills as needed on the job