Requisition ID: 258196
Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.
The Total Wealth 360 team within Global Wealth Engineering is driving a multi‑year digital transformation to deliver a best‑in‑class Advisor Desktop for Canadian Wealth Management (CWM). To support this journey, we are seeking an experienced and strategic Salesforce Development Lead to oversee the successful delivery of complex Salesforce initiatives across the Financial Services Cloud (FSC) ecosystem.
This role offers a unique opportunity to work in a fast‑paced, agile, and innovation‑driven lab environment, partnering closely with business and technology stakeholders to ensure high‑quality outcomes. The successful candidate will provide hands‑on development leadership and end‑to‑end delivery ownership across multiple workstreams, enabling a unified single‑pane‑of‑glass experience for Advisors by seamlessly integrating data, workflows, and insights into a cohesive and scalable platform.
The Salesforce Development Lead is expected to lead teams operating under Agile Scrum and Kanban delivery models and will be accountable for driving delivery predictability, team velocity, and engineering excellence.
Is this role right for you? In this role you will:
- Proven experience collaborating with senior Business and Technology leaders to define delivery strategy, execution plans, and roadmaps
- Extensive experience delivering enterprise‑scale Salesforce implementations across complex, multi‑org environments
- Strong expertise in Salesforce governance, release management, and enterprise delivery standards
- Demonstrated success leading cross‑functional teams across Product, Engineering, QA, Architecture, and Operations
- Proven leadership within Agile delivery frameworks, including Scrum and Kanban, with accountability for:
- Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Stand‑ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives
- Iteration planning, capacity management, dependency tracking, and delivery forecasting
- Strong understanding of Salesforce platform capabilities, including:
- Financial Services Cloud (Households, Person Accounts, rollups)
- Sales Cloud and Service Cloud
- Integration patterns using REST, SOAP, and Bulk APIs
- Experience leading teams using DevOps and CI/CD pipelines, including SFDX, Git‑based source control, and automated deployments
- Ability to drive code quality and delivery discipline through standards, peer reviews, and engineering best practices
- Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to balance delivery execution and strategic oversight
Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We’d love to work with you if you have:
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in a senior technical leadership or delivery role
- Deep experience with Salesforce DX, Lightning (Aura/LWC), Apex, and asynchronous processing (Batch, Queueable, Future)
- Hands‑on experience overseeing production deployments, sandbox strategies, rollback approaches, and enterprise release runbooks
- Strong understanding of Salesforce Flows, automation frameworks, and scalable solution patterns
- Demonstrated ability to lead Agile teams through continuous improvement, velocity optimization, and predictable delivery outcomes
- Exposure to data migration and integration tools (e.g., Data Loader, middleware platforms)
- Solid foundation in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Experience supporting production stability, incident management, and root cause analysis
- Prior experience in Banking or Financial Services, preferably Wealth Management
Nice to Have:
- Experience with Salesforce Data Cloud and/or Marketing Cloud
- Knowledge of security and quality tools such as SonarQube, Veracode, or AppOmni
- Scripting experience (Bash and/or PowerShell)
- Experience with delta deployments, test optimization, and sandbox refresh/sanitization processes
Education and Certifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- Salesforce certifications required, including several of the following:
- Platform Developer I & II
- Platform App Builder
- Integration Architect
- Salesforce Administrator
- Salesforce Architect
- Sales Cloud or Service Cloud Consultant
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.
- Dynamic Ecosystem - Free tea & coffee, universal washrooms, and lots of space for team collaboration.
- Community Engagement - We offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons.
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. 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.
