Technical Product Manager (temporary full time position) (Toronto, ON, CA, M5H 1H1)

Requisition ID: 261119 

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

The Technology Product Manager of Cloud Platform Engineering, Scotiabank, Canada is pivotal in steering cloud technology modernization and adoption. This role encompasses significant collaboration with cross-functional teams to drive the development and seamless integration of Cloud, Platform Engineering, and DevOps capabilities into business outcomes.

As a TPM, you will oversee the entire product lifecycle from conceptualization to execution, ensuring that each product aligns with the strategic goals of the organization. Your primary mission involves defining technology product vision, gathering and prioritizing requirements, and collaborating with engineering teams to deliver cutting-edge digital solutions.

You will serve as a strategic liaison across Engineering, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Risk, Operations, and Business stakeholders to align technology investments with enterprise objectives. The role requires strong stakeholder management, influencing senior leaders across multiple organizations, driving consensus on priorities, and ensuring successful adoption and realization of business value from technology products. 

Your ability to balance technical expertise with business acumen will be crucial. You'll participate in technically complex discussions and articulate technical matters in a business-friendly manner, developing strategic roadmaps and guiding Product Managers and Product Owners. Your responsibilities also include making informed decisions about technological investments and collaborating effectively to foster a culture of innovation within Scotiabank.

You will establish product success measures, monitor adoption and business outcomes, and continuously evolve product strategy based on customer feedback, operational insights, and organizational priorities.

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

• Oversee the product lifecycle, manage requirements, define product vision, and collaborate with engineering to deliver digital solutions.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with executive stakeholders, technology leaders, architects, engineering teams, and business partners to drive alignment on product strategy, priorities, and outcomes.
• Lead product governance activities including roadmap reviews, investment recommendations, executive communications, and strategic planning processes.
• Foster adoption of Public Cloud, DevOps Technologies, Self-Serve and other products that form part of the assigned portfolio through collaboration.
• Facilitate prioritization discussions across competing initiatives, balancing business value, technical debt, operational risk, regulatory requirements, and engineering capacity.
• Develop strategic roadmaps with executive-level insights and guidance and align with erring and architecture teams to prioritize product features.
• Research technology product domains, understand operation in large enterprises, and inform buy, build, partner decisions.
• Represent the product portfolio in executive forums.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year product strategy and roadmap.
• Deliver a product backlog with well-defined and prioritized features and justify decisions

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

• 5+ year experience leading product strategy, roadmap planning, and prioritization for large-scale enterprise technology platforms. Proven track record in creating and managing technology products within an enterprise setting.
• Extensive experience collaborating with Cloud, DevOps, and Platform Engineering teams.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence executives and senior leaders without direct authority. 
• Demonstrated experience driving organizational change, technology adoption, and large-scale transformation initiatives. 
• Experience managing complex interdependencies across multiple organizations. 
• Strong business acumen and experience defining KPIs and success metrics. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; Spanish language proficiency is an asset

What's in it for you?

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - 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. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.  
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.
• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, Humans of Digital and much more!

Location(s):  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. If you require technical assistance, please click here. 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.