CONTRACT TO PERM- Intermediate Technical Analyst to support trading applications with one of our major banking clients- 38783

CONTRACT TO PERM- Intermediate Technical Analyst to support trading applications with one of our major banking clients- 38783

Location Address: Hybrid - Toronto - 3 days per week - subject to change/increase

Contract Duration: 6 months (MUST CONVERT TO PERM)

Schedule Hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday; standard 37.5 hrs/week

Story Behind the Need

• Business group: Global Banking and Markets Engineering (GBME) is the fast-moving, award-winning technology engine that powers Scotiabank’s Corporate, Investment Banking, and Capital Markets businesses.
• Project: GBME is searching for Technical Analyst to liaison between business stakeholders and internal engineering and architect teams, ensuring solutions are developed and delivered on time, efficiently and with high quality for various projects within GBME.
• Supporting Trading application (Peak) used by the front office team - users are spread across Canada and US and some in Mexico - plan to expand into Europe in 2026

Typical Day in Role:

• User-Centered Design & Research
• Conduct user research, usability testing, and gather feedback to improve design.
• Create and maintain design documentation including user personas, journey maps, and usability reports.
• Advocate for usability and accessibility standards in final product delivery.
• Collaborate with interface designers to develop wireframes, prototypes, and user flows.
• Stakeholder Collaboration & Requirement Gathering
• Engage with stakeholders across Sales & Trading, Support, Product Control, and Middle/Back Office functions to solicit and clarify requirements.
• Document use cases and requirements for services involving data enrichment, translation, aggregation, and messaging bus interactions.
• Collaborate with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to define and implement innovative product solutions.
• Trade Lifecycle & Financial Instruments Expertise
• Capture business requirements for Listed and OTC Products covering Trade Capture, Lifecycle, Pricing Model Integration, Clearing, and Settlement.
• Understand trade events such as Booking/Management, Corporate Actions, Unwind, Rate Reset/Fixing, and Realized Cashflows.
• Familiarity with end-to-end trade workflows across Front, Middle, and Back Office systems.
• Advanced knowledge of derivatives including Interest Rate Swaps, Equity Total Return Swaps, Equity Options, Equities, and Bonds.
• System Integration & Technical Tools
• Integrate with Trade and Position Management Systems, Instrument Master Systems, and market/reference data services.
• Experience with near-real-time systems in capital markets.
• Familiarity with messaging bus technologies (e.g., Apache Kafka).
• Use Jira and Confluence for delivery tracking and documentation.
• Development Collaboration & Testing
• Collaborate with development teams to interpret requirements and deliver functionalities.
• Create data flow and sequence diagrams to support development.
• Perform functional and regression testing, including automation.
• Demonstrate an informed knowledge of business functions to resolve problems and capitalize on improvement opportunities.
• Ensure business specifications/requirements documentation is accurately prepared and comprehensive to support sizing/development efforts and as input to various project documentation.
• Develop and deliver Business Requirements Documents, Design Documents, Use Cases, and Process Models as required.
• Work closely across GBME technology teams during all stages of the system development life cycle and bridge the gap between business and technology sides of the solution.
• Liaising between the business community and the IT organization to provide technical solutions that meet user needs.
• Build relationships and communicate effectively with colleagues in Global regions.
• Support production issues and handle escalations during Release cycles as needed.
• Perform ad hoc work as needed.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

1) 5+ years’ financial technology experience, with strong technical background.

2) 3+ years’ experience with capital markets trading and products with a focus on trade capture, with understanding of the end-to-end trade life cycle

3) 3+ years’ experience in building solutions, developing trading application products and have successfully achieved it through a sound execution strategy.

4) Experience with SQL

5) Experience with application testing such as integration and performance

Nice-To-Have Skills:

1) Experience with front office trading desk and sales

2) Experience with / good understanding of derivative product pricing

3) Familiar with derivative products such as: Options, Total Return Swaps, Equity Linked Structured notes

4) Experience with API Testing using tools such as Postman

5) Experience with development: Python, Web Based UX, VBA, Low code no code framework

Education:

Bachelor’s in technical field preferred

CFA/FRM nice to have

Education:

Bachelor's

Best VS. Average Candidate:

The successful candidate will have a results-oriented and curious mindset with strong technical skills

- Strong testing experience

• With Curious and Engineering mindset to drive innovation amidst uncertainty

• Quickly adapt and learn - hit the ground running

• Experience in programming/development would be an asset to be able to translate technical terms; exposure to low code no code

• Experience with front office trading desk and sales

• Previous titles: product manager, BSA

Candidate Review & Selection

2 -3 rounds - mix of video and in person

1st - panel interview with 2-3 team members - about product knowledge, technical programming knowledge assessment, interpersonal skillset - 45 minutes

2nd - with HM and front office stakeholder - 30-45 minutes - in person at 44 King or 40 Temperance

3rd potential to decide between 2 candidates