Software Developer, Equity Research - Toronto

Requisition ID: 231960

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

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. Scotiabanks 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!

About the Team:
At Scotiabank research is a key driver of our Global Equity platform. We specialize in the Canadian market and we also supply targeted international research covering the United States and Latin America. Our top-ranked teams generate value-added equity ideas and themed publications. As well we are constantly looking for ways to bring new products to market and provide clients with valuable research ideas and insights. Our products include daily company-specific investment views monthly and quarterly sector updates in-depth fundamental research reports portfolio analysis and recommendations and equity strategy commentary.

Position Highlights:
Do you thrive when faced with challenges Like using fresh technologies to solve problems Looking to work in various projects across the organization collaborating with great teams and inspiring leaders Then this is the right team for you! In this exciting role youll apply your analytical skills to design and develop applications that deliver excellence effectiveness and value to our business partners and customers.

Global Equity Research is searching for a Software Developer who is a continuous learner and is eager to boost capabilities of global equity research team. This role will join a small team of developers that directly support the business with automation and analytics.

The successful candidate will have a strong technical and engineering mindset. You will work closely with business teams and cross functional engineering leaders to develop and implement market leading solutions for the various projects within Global Equity Research.

What Youll Do:

• Work closely with end users and business teams to understand business needs conduct gap analysis and requirements assessments as needed
• Deliver and enhance new and current solutions and applications
• Be involved in the full life cycle of a project responsible for producing actionable and complete specifications writing production quality code and implementation
• Design deliver and implement a database schema
• Design test sets and automate where possible including functional and non-functional testing regression testing as well as performance testing
• Support the solution in production
• Improve the end user experience by finding scalable solutions and addressing complex ad hoc queries.
• Effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences
• Able to work with and refactor legacy code (as needed)
  
  

What Youll Bring:

• Experience with 1 or more modern development languages (Python C# Angular etc.)
• Bachelors degree in computer science or computer engineering
• Knowledge of relational and non-relational databases experience reading writing and running SQL scripts
• Experience with Team Foundation Server is an asset
• Experience with integrating LLM models into applications is an asset
• Experience Windows Server OS is an asset
• Work as a contributing member of a team.
• Values quality while still managing expectations and deliverables.
• Open to ideas and gives and receives feedback well.
• Interest in financial markets is an asset

Work Arrangement:
This position is currently an onsite role with the expectation that you will work at least 4 days a week in the office. Please note that this is subject to change based on the needs of the business.

Interested

If your experience is closely related but doesnt align perfectly with every qualification we do encourage you to apply - you might be the right candidate for this or other roles at Scotiabank!

At Scotiabank every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential respected for who they are and embraced for their differences. Thats why we work to grow and diversify talent and engage employees in a performance-oriented culture.

Whats in it for you

Scotiabank wants you to be able to bring your best self to work and life every day. With a focus on holistic well-being our many flexible benefit programs are designed to help support your unique family financial physical mental and social health needs.

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.