Senior Developer - Global Regulatory & Controls Technology

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

Build the Technology That Powers Global Regulatory Compliance

Are you a highly skilled software engineer looking to make an impact on a global scale? Join our Global Regulatory & Controls Technology team and help shape the future of regulatory reporting and compliance technology across international financial markets. You'll work at the forefront of cloud-native engineering, real-time data processing, and event-driven architecture, developing platforms that are critical to the bank's regulatory obligations across multiple jurisdictions. This is an opportunity to engineer innovative solutions that process high-volume transaction and market data in real time, leveraging modern technologies including Kubernetes, microservices, event streaming, and cloud platforms. If you're passionate about building resilient, scalable systems and enjoy solving complex technical challenges in a fast-paced environment, we'd love to hear from you.

What You'll Be Doing

• As a Senior Developer, you'll play a key role in designing, building and enhancing mission-critical regulatory technology platforms.
• Working within a collaborative Agile environment, you'll partner with engineers, product owners, business analysts and compliance stakeholders to deliver innovative solutions that support global regulatory reporting and controls.
• Designing and developing real-time, message-driven microservices and data platforms.
• Building scalable cloud-native solutions leveraging Kubernetes and modern container technologies.
• Driving engineering best practices including CI/CD, automated testing and event-driven architecture.
• Supporting critical regulatory reporting and compliance workflows across global markets.
• Troubleshooting and resolving complex production issues, driving continuous improvement and platform resilience.
• Evaluating and adopting emerging technologies to improve performance, scalability and operational effectiveness.
• Mentoring and supporting fellow engineers while fostering a collaborative, inclusive team culture.

What You’ll Have:

• Strong development experience in Java, Python or similar enterprise technologies.
• Experience building distributed systems, microservices and API-based architectures.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerised environments.
• Knowledge of messaging and event-streaming technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ or JMS.
• Strong database experience, including SQL and ideally technologies such as Oracle, Redis or Elasticsearch.
• Experience with JSON, XML, Avro or similar data formats.
• Knowledge of automated testing frameworks and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Why Join Us?

This is more than just a development role. You'll be joining a team responsible for technology platforms that support some of the most important regulatory and compliance functions within a global financial institution. You'll have the opportunity to:

• Work on business-critical systems with global impact.
• Shape the future of regulatory technology and data platforms.
• Collaborate with talented engineers across international teams.
• Gain exposure to modern cloud-native technologies and large-scale distributed systems.
• Contribute to strategic regulatory change programmes.
• Develop your leadership skills while mentoring others and influencing engineering best practice.

Location & Working Pattern: London (Hybrid Working). We offer a flexible hybrid model combining office collaboration with remote working. Occasional out-of-hours support may be required during production releases or major incidents.

Inclusion and Belonging

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 employees to learn, grow & participate through our various voluntary Employee-led Resource Groups (ERGs), that are open to all, and span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.

Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations

We value the unique skills and experiences everyone brings to the Bank and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank is consistently working to prevent and remove barriers to accessibility so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements. We value the unique skills and experience each person brings and are committed to an inclusive, accessible environment. Accommodations, such as accessible interview sites, alternate formats, ASL interpretation, or assistive technology, are available upon request. Please let us know at any time during the recruitment or interview process if you require an accommodation.

Location(s): England : GreaterLondon : London (UK)

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.

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.