Principal Engineer, Intelligent Developer Platforms

Requisition ID: 267073 

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

The Principal Engineer, Intelligent Developer Platforms is a senior individual contributor responsible for defining and delivering AI‑enabled capabilities across Scotiabank’s global developer platform ecosystem. This role focuses on embedding artificial intelligence directly into the software delivery lifecycle to improve code quality, application security, technical currency, and delivery efficiency, while operating within the governance, risk, and control expectations of a global financial institution.

Acting as a hands‑on technical leader, this role establishes enterprise‑wide patterns for AI‑augmented software engineering, shapes the evolution of developer platforms, and enables development teams to safely and effectively adopt intelligent automation at scale. The Principal Engineer provides deep technical leadership, influences platform and application teams across the Bank, and plays a critical role in advancing secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) compliance through intelligent.

Is this role right for you? In this role, you will:

• Define and deliver AI driven capabilities embedded within developer platforms, including automated pull request review aligned to coding standards, secure SDLC requirements, and enterprise security policies.
• Establish AI assisted decision support mechanisms human in the loop pull request approvals, ensuring explainability, auditability, and measurements.
• Design AI enabled approaches to proactively identify application currency gaps and technical debt, generating recommended remediation through suggested code changes and pull requests.
• Lead the development of AI based security review patterns that analyze security scan results, threat and risk assessments, and historical context to provide clear, actionable risk signals.
• Partner with developer tooling and IDE teams to embed enterprise knowledge into AI agents, enabling controlled and secure interaction with bank systems through approved interfaces and guardrails.
• Define long term AI patterns for advanced application tiers, including the use of work management artifacts to suggest code changes and measure automation effectiveness.
• Drive platform level approaches for specification driven workflows, reducing bespoke workflow implementations and enabling consistent operation of AI agents across delivery pipelines.
• Act as a technical thought leader for AI augmented engineering practices, establishing standards, reference architectures, and guardrails aligned to secure SDLC and policy compliance.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior engineers, influencing delivery and platform adoption across multiple teams without direct authority..

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Extensive experience designing and building large‑scale developer platforms, CI/CD systems, or software delivery tooling.
• Demonstrated expertise applying artificial intelligence or advanced automation to software engineering workflows.
• Strong knowledge of secure software development lifecycle principles, application security, and policy compliance.
• Proven ability to operate as a senior individual contributor with enterprise‑level influence.
• Experience within financial services or other highly regulated industries.
• Background in platform architecture, specification‑driven systems, or workflow automation at scale.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and setting technical direction across multiple teams.

What's in it for you?

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - 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 employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.  
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.
• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, Humans of Digital and much more!

Location(s):  Canada : Ontario : Toronto 

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.  

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our  Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. 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.