Senior Director, Data Quality

Requisition ID: 270860

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Global Banking and Markets

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!

Purpose

The Senior Director Data Quality Engineering is an enterprise engineering leader accountable for defining building and scaling data quality capabilities that strengthen trust in critical data across analytics AI regulatory reporting and operational processes. This role owns the data quality engineering strategy operating model roadmap and execution across a modern Databricks Lakehouse platform ensuring quality controls are automated observable measurable and embedded directly into the data lifecycle.

You will partner with senior technology data governance risk and business leaders to establish enterprise-wide data quality standards engineering patterns observability practices and remediation workflows. You will lead managers and senior engineers responsible for capabilities including profiling rule management anomaly detection quality scorecards data contracts incident management and quality controls integrated into Lakehouse engineering workflows.

What Youll Do

Enterprise Data Quality Strategy & Engineering Leadership:
Define and own the enterprise data quality engineering strategy roadmap and operating model aligned to Lakehouse architecture including Databricks Delta Lake Unity Catalog metadata services and the Enterprise Data Catalog.
Lead the design delivery and continuous improvement of scalable enterprise data quality capabilities including:
o Data profiling quality rule authoring and rules lifecycle management
o Completeness accuracy validity uniqueness timeliness consistency and freshness checks
o Quality thresholds SLOs scorecards and certification criteria for critical data assets
o Data quality issue detection triage ownership remediation and evidence capture
Set engineering standards that embed automated quality checks into end-to-end data pipelines including Bronze Silver and Gold layers so issues are detected early prevented from flowing downstream and governed through repeatable controls.
Influence and align data owners stewards engineers platform teams security risk audit and senior business stakeholders on quality expectations for critical data elements data products and regulatory reporting processes.
Drive adoption of reusable data quality frameworks patterns templates APIs and self-service onboarding models that make quality controls practical for engineering teams to implement at enterprise scale.
Ensure data quality controls are measurable auditable policy-aligned and supported by evidence required for regulatory reporting operational risk and executive governance needs.

Data Observability Monitoring & Operational Trust:
Build and operate data observability capabilities that provide visibility into freshness volume schema drift distribution changes completeness and reliability across critical pipelines.
Implement automated profiling anomaly detection alerting and monitoring to identify quality issues before they impact analytics AI reporting or downstream business processes.
Create quality dashboards scorecards and service-level indicators that help business and technology stakeholders understand data health trends and risk exposure.
Lead root-cause analysis and continuous improvement efforts for recurring data quality issues partnering with source system pipeline and product teams to eliminate defects at the source.
Platform Productization Adoption & Organizational Leadership:
Productize data quality capabilities as reusable platform services including rule libraries validation templates metadata-driven controls and self-service onboarding patterns.
Ensure data contracts include explicit quality expectations such as schema SLA/SLO freshness completeness and acceptance criteria.
Promote trusted certified and fit-for-purpose data assets by integrating quality signals into catalog marketplace and stewardship workflows.
Build lead and develop a high-performing organization of data quality engineering managers senior engineers and specialists; establish talent plans engineering practices delivery discipline and a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
Represent data quality engineering in executive forums by communicating strategy delivery progress operational risk quality trends investment priorities and measurable business outcomes.

What Youll Bring

Bachelors degree in computer science engineering information technology data management or a related discipline.
12 years of progressive experience in data engineering data quality data management platform engineering or related technology disciplines including 7 years leading engineering teams and 3 years managing managers or senior technical leaders.
Depth in financial services or other highly regulated industries with demonstrated experience delivering audit-ready controls regulatory reporting quality operational risk reduction and executive-level governance outcomes.
Hands-on experience with:
o Databricks Delta Lake Unity Catalog workflows and Lakehouse data engineering patterns
o Data quality platforms profiling tools observability frameworks rule engines and monitoring capabilities
o Metadata-driven controls catalog integration lineage-aware quality monitoring and data contract implementation
o Strong understanding of data quality dimensions critical data elements quality scorecards SLAs/SLOs and issue management workflows
o Practical experience embedding quality controls into batch streaming and orchestration workflows
o Cloud platform experience with Azure preferred
Proven enterprise leadership in data quality engineering observability profiling rule management monitoring incident response remediation and continuous improvement at scale.
Strong understanding of data governance metadata lineage security privacy and regulatory compliance as they relate to data quality controls.
Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives architects data owners stewards risk partners and engineering teams to deliver measurable improvements in data trust control effectiveness and business confidence.
Exceptional executive communication skills with the ability to translate complex data quality platform and risk topics into clear business impact investment priorities operational metrics and decision-ready recommendations.

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!
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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.

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Location(s): United States : Texas : Dallas

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