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IT Solutions Architect

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**Fecha:** 23 jul 2025

**Ubicación:** Bogota, DC, CO

**Empresa:** Scotiabank

**Requisition ID:** 231160

Thanks for your interest in ScotiaTech, Scotiabank's new and innovative Technology hub in Bogota.

Join a purpose driven winning team that promotes creativity and innovation in a fast-paced environment, where we’re always committed to results, in an inclusive, diverse, and high-performing culture.

Purpose

We are seeking a Senior Data Architect to lead the design and governance of our enterprise data platforms. The ideal candidate is an expert in data modelling (star, snowflake, data vault), open data formats, and scalable architectures using cloud-native tools. You will collaborate across business and technology teams to ensure robust, compliant, and high-performing data ecosystem.

Accountabilities

+ Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.

+ Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications.

+ Building, architecting, designing, and implementing highly distributed global based systems.

+ Experience in network infrastructure, security, data, or application development.

+ Modernizing legacy systems or similar transformational initiatives.

+ Author architectural patterns to help assessment teams improve and develop their processes.

+ Socialize with larger audiences using reporting, real-time dashboards, and hosting education sessions.

+ Act as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation, and analysis efforts

+ Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution.

+ Assure quality security and compliance requirements are met for supported area.

+ Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment.

+ Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner.

+ The role requires interaction with business and technology leadership, consequently effective communications commensurate with the audience and the ability to promote an idea and gain consensus is critical.

+ Responsible for the Implementation of a trusted governance model where architecture assessments are automated based on enterprise standards and policies.

+ Helping drives the implementation of trusted policies and standards with the help internal teams such as Security, Infrastructure, Data, etc.

+ Deployment of a technology solution that will implement the trusted governance framework, policies and workflows.

+ Challenge the solution architect’s way of thinking by implementing architectural design principles to improve the bank’s security, resiliency and technology footprint.

+ Continuously research current and emerging technologies and propose changes were needed.

+ Inform various stakeholders about any issues with the current technical solutions being implemented.

+ Create designs and reference architectures for enterprise

+ Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be incorporate into in day-to-day activities and decisions.

+ Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s 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.

+ Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

Education / Experience / Other Information

Skill set for the role

+ 5+ years of experience required on data architecture (prioritized):

+ Hands-on experience in defining and implementing data mesh principles across multiples domains

+ Proven expertise in dimensional modeling (Star and Snowflake schema).

+ In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with Data Vault 2.0 modeling.

+ Experience designing enterprise data architecture using modern Lakehouse, Datalake and Warehouse patterns.

+ Proficient in designing logical, physical, and canonical data models aligned with business domains.

+ Experience working with metadata management and catalogs.

+ Strong knowledge of master data management MDM, data lineage and data governance best practices.

+ Knowledge of data privacy regulations and secure data architecture design.

+ Technical Proficiency in:

+ Python expert.

+ Open Format Table expert (Delta Lake or Iceberg or Hudi).

+ Azure / GCP cloud professional data architect certification.

+ GCP Dataplex expert.

+ Databricks Unity Catalog expert.

+ Spark y/o Flink expert.

Must Have Skills:

+ React (Front-end) – 5+ years of hands-on experience

+ Node.js (Backend for front-end layer) – 5+ years of hands-on experience

Nice To Have Skills:

+ Scotiabank experience (Digital Factory)

+ Agile/Scrum - FI/Banking experience (Scotiabank preferred*)

+ Active scotiabank users

+ Knowledge of the use of: Jenkins(CI), sonar, Checkmarx, fortify, blackduck

+ Experience in the use of application monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, etc

+ Knowledge of Security Concepts such as SSL, Certificates, Key Store/Trust Store

+ BitBucket, JIRA, Confluence

Soft Skills:

+ Results driven.

+ Hit the ground running.

+ Strong communication skills (written & verbal), interacting with Product, Design and Back-end Teams.

+ Sense of urgency.

+ Great communication skills.

+ Obstacles removal.

+ Proactive to find solutions to new problems.

+ High accountability.

+ English B2/C1.

+ Teamwork.

Working Conditions

Work in a standard office-based environment; non-standard hours are a common occurrence.

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Location(s): Bogotá or Home-Office

ScotiaTech is a business unit within ScotiaGBS, a Scotiabank Group company located in Bogota, Colombia. The ScotiaTech hub was created to support different technology systems and processes of the Bank. We offer an inclusive, positive work environment, and competitive benefits.

At ScotiaTech, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at ScotiaTech; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.

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