Sr. Manager, Agile Delivery Lead, Bilingual in Spanish

Requisition ID: 230115

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

Purpose

The incumbent is a strategic technology leader responsible for driving the successful delivery of scalable customer-centric solutions within International Banking Technology through agile methodologies. Recognized for deep industry knowledge and strong business acumen they lead cross-functional teams foster stakeholder collaboration and ensure alignment between business objectives and technology outcomes. With a focus on innovation operational excellence and financial stewardship the role also supports portfolio management and governance to maximize value delivery and continuous improvement.

This position is ideal for a strategic thinker with a passion for agile delivery and stakeholder engagement. Fluency in both Spanish and English supports effective communication across diverse teams and regions

Accountabilities

• Strategic Leadership & Influence: Serve as a key leader within the organization influencing both technology and business leadership teams to align delivery strategies with enterprise goals. Act as a trusted advisor in shaping the agile transformation journey and driving strategic outcomes across International Banking Technology.
• Agile Delivery Oversight: Lead the end-to-end delivery of large-scale complex and high-impact technology initiatives using Agile and DevOps practices. Ensure timely high-quality and cost-effective delivery that supports business priorities and enhances customer experience.
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership: Build and sustain high-performing cross-functional teams by fostering a culture of collaboration accountability and continuous improvement. Promote agile values and servant leadership to empower teams and remove delivery impediments.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Communication: Establish strong collaborative relationships with business technology and control function stakeholders. Ensure alignment on priorities maintain transparency and facilitate effective communication across all levels of the organization.
• Portfolio & Program Management: Oversee the planning execution and governance of the technology delivery portfolio. Ensure initiatives are prioritized resourced and tracked effectively with clear visibility into progress risks and outcomes.
• Product Development Enablement: Lead and oversee the Agile delivery team responsible for enabling product development across multiple squads. Ensure that Agile ceremonies are effectively facilitated sprint planning and backlog refinement are strategically aligned with business priorities and that teams are consistently delivering incremental value. Act as a coach and escalation point for other Delivery Managers Scrum Masters and Product Owners driving continuous improvement in agile maturity delivery velocity and cross-team coordination.
• Operational Readiness & Deployment: Coordinate deployment planning operational readiness and compliance activities in collaboration with engineering security and release management teams. Ensure smooth transitions from development to production.
• Process Optimization & Innovation: Identify opportunities to improve delivery processes engineering practices and team operations. Drive innovation and efficiency through automation standardization and continuous feedback loops.
• Risk & Compliance Leadership: Provide strategic oversight of risk and compliance across the Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC) ensuring that all delivery activities adhere to regulatory operational and security standards. Proactively identify assess and mitigate delivery risks while fostering a culture of accountability and risk awareness within the delivery teams. Actively engage with key stakeholdersincluding Risk Legal Audit and Securityto ensure early involvement alignment and traceability of controls throughout the delivery process.
• Resource & Financial Management: Strategically manage team capacity and resource allocation to ensure alignment with project budgets delivery timelines and evolving business priorities. Monitor and report on delivery performance financial health and value realization ensuring transparency and accountability across initiatives. Partner with finance and portfolio teams to optimize investment decisions and support data-driven planning.
• Bilingual Communication: Facilitate effective communication and documentation in both Spanish and English enabling seamless collaboration across global teams and stakeholders.
• Customer-Centric Culture: Champion a customer-first mindset across delivery teams leveraging institutional knowledge and systems to enhance client relationships and deliver meaningful business value.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with Scotiabanks Values its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles while ensuring the adequacy adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational compliance AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.

Education and Experience

• Bachelors degree in information technology Software Engineering or a related technical discipline
• Fully Bilingual Spanish and English oral and written skills
• 5 8 years experience in Engineering in technology leadership roles with a strong track record of delivering complex enterprise-scale solutions in a global or multi-regional context.
• Experience in Jira Confluence and any other Atlassian Products Design Thinking Agile methodologies and DevOps mindset
• Certifications in Agile methodologies (e.g. SAFe Scrum Master Product Owner) DevOps or Project Management (e.g. PMP) are considered assets.
• Experience working inregulated environments(e.g. banking financial services) with a solid understanding of risk compliance and operational readiness.

Whats In It for You

• Youll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders who have hailed from top technology companies around the world.
• We foster an environment of innovation and continuous learning. We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity curiosity and celebrates success!
• We provide employees with an environment that is safe inclusive and reflective of all communities by promoting fair and equitable treatment and prioritizing unconscious bias and anti-racism training.
• We care about our people allowing them to design how they work to deliver amazing results.
• We offer a competitive total rewards package including a performance bonus company matching programs (pension & Employee Share Ownership) generous vacation; health/medical/wellness benefits; employee banking privileges.
• When in person collaboration is required you can take advantage of our new state of the art ecosystems with a design focus on enabling collaboration through both environment and technology

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.