Software Engineer Associate-Scotiatech

Requisition ID: 249260

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

The Software Engineer Associate, reporting to the Senior Manager, ensures smooth operation of applications by addressing user issues, analyzing problems, and implementing solutions. This role involves direct interaction with users, either internally or externally, to resolve software-related challenges. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience in backend services/APIs as well as front-end/ UI development, including security and infrastructure, is familiar with coding best practices, and understands cloud-native solutions.

Accountabilities

• You will provide system analysis, object oriented design / programming, technical documentation, and support for existing and new applications and systems.

•  You will work with project teams to refine technical requirements and provide technical design and guidance based on industry best practices.

• You will perform coding, unit testing, debugging, documenting and implementing of applications and scripts.

• You will participate in estimation and planning of development efforts required for various projects and enhancements.

• You will maintain, support and enhance applications.

• You will participate in production issue analysis and perform root cause analysis for production issues and implementation issues.

• You will be available to provide after-hours support on a rotating weekly basis.

• You will assist the product owner, solutions architect and business analysts in discovering the current system behavior and provide recommendations on improving the current system.

Education / Experience / Other Information

•   Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline.

•   You have at least 3+ years of technical working experience in systems analysis, design, development, unit testing, and debugging.

•   You have working experience in the use of Bit Bucket, GIT, Gradle, Jira, Confluence or a similar tool(s) for building Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

•   Technical working experience in an agile environment.

•    Must have technical working experience with Core Java (Version 17 or higher)/Java Servlet/JDBC/JavaScript; Spring Boot (Spring MVC, Spring Security and Spring Data Repositories),  HTML; CSS;  jQuery, Bootstrap, AngularJS, React, UNIX shell scripting; SQL & relational databases.

•    Ideally, you have working experience in the banking/financial services industry.

•     Technical working knowledge of WebServices, XML/SOAP/REST, IBM Websphere Application Server (WAS); Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE); IBM Rational Application Developer (RAD); soapUI; WinSCP (Windows Secure Copy); PuTTY SCP (PSCP); Secure Shell (SSH)

•     Technical knowledge of Google Cloud.

•     Technical knowledge of Splunk, Dynatrace is an asset.

•     Excellent interpersonal, communication, and influencing skills with the ability to build and foster relationships with business partners, project stakeholders, strategic technology partners and external vendors. 

Location(s):  Colombia : Bogota : Bogota

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.