Director International Development Jobs in Texas

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Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.
Global Banking and Markets
Global Banking and Markets (GBM) is a leading Canadian Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a growing platform in the US and Latin America, operating globally for over 100 years. Scotiabank's strong U.S. presence provides our clients an important bridge to this key global market for trade and investment flows across the Americas and the world.
Global Banking & Markets provides a full range of investment banking, credit and risk management products and services relevant to the financing and strategic development needs of our clients. Our products include debt and equity financing, mergers & acquisitions, corporate banking, institutional equity sales, trading and research, fixed income products, derivatives, energy, foreign exchange and precious & metals. We also cross-sell the full range of wholesale products and services offered by the Scotiabank Group.
Be part of an innovative, Global Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a unique geographic footprint that puts capital to work for our clients across industries! We work together to drive ambition for every future!
Purpose
Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.
The Director, International Wealth Management is accountable for developing, leading, and overseeing delivery teams who are responsible for working with cross-functional development teams and business stakeholders to define and implement business strategies, product roadmaps, service offerings and new features.
The Director contributes to the long-term profitability of the International Wealth Management business line by establishing performance goals and work practices which drive the design and development of high-quality products and solutions.
This is a demanding hands-on and strategic role which requires the incumbent to be knowledgeable of the financial services sector and emerging trends in the Wealth and Asset Management industry.
What You'll Do
• Management and oversight for delivery of a portfolio of initiatives focused on client and advisor solutions, ensuring that the deliverable align with strategic priorities.
• Lead and drive a customer focused culture throughout the delivery teams to influence a client-centered design culture and to deepen relationships with business stakeholders and leverage broader bank relationships, systems, processes and knowledge.
• Understand and keep up to date with emerging technologies, trends and innovative solutions across the industry.
• Collaborate with business SMEs and technology teams to create platform roadmaps that align and assist in moving business strategies forward.
• Provide guidance to stakeholders to ensure prioritization is driven by business value.
• Define, lead and execute a cohesive strategy designed to limit technological debt and to effectively manage transition from legacy systems to modern technology platforms, maximizing operational efficiencies.
• Excellent relationship building, influencing and negotiation skills to build and maintain strong supportive relationships with stakeholders across the organization.
• Manage engagement with bank stakeholders and effectively communicate product release contents and expected product capabilities/customer journey.
• Engage with the engineering and design teams to help determine the best technical implementation methods as well as a reasonable implementation schedule to launch products on a regular basis.
• Manage communications and status reporting of ongoing initiatives, including summarizing project risks and options and facilitating prompt decisions when needed.
• Maintain an understanding of financial services markets, the competitive landscape and digital transformation trends relative to the Wealth and Asset Management sector and client/user needs and requirements.
• You possess a visionary and strategic leadership while inspiring team of solution architects and engineers to embrace your vision and be best in class team responsible for implementing and maintaining Wealth Technology solutions.
• You are future focused with the ability to develop roadmaps and build business cases including benefits and costs
• You thrive in providing strong leadership and driving employee empowerment and a high degree of engagement.
• You excel in overseeing the architecture and design of solutions for the enterprise in a large and distributed environment.
• You have experience delivering complex projects providing global, innovative solutions that improve the delivery of Wealth products
• You excel in the assessment and selection of Global Wealth technologies and integration partners.
• You excel in relationship, stakeholder management and influencing and negotiation skills, effective at all levels up to senior executives.
• You can efficiently perform management tasks including incident response and escalations; vendor & contract management; infrastructure management and service resiliency; and service ownership.
• You enjoy challenges of working on different types of projects (from large complex to simple).
• You collaborate with various business functions to ensure Wealth Technology meets business needs.
What You'll Bring
• Individual projects range from Minor Enhancements ($50K+) to major strategic initiatives with $10MM+ budgets in a given year.
• Demonstrated success delivering applications in an agile environment, strong organization and planning skills with a track record of successful delivery
• Experience in leading and coaching delivery teams, with track record of attracting and developing talent
• Critical thinking skills: using logic and reasoning to evaluate alternative solutions, recommendations, summarize conclusions and approaches to mitigate risks
• Demonstrated ability to achieve strategic goals
• Ability to develop strong working relationships with business and technology partners
• Relevant working experience in the financial sector, Wealth and Asset Management experience
• Understanding of the regulatory environment and parameters impacting the design and delivery of products and services within the Asset Management industry
Interested?
If your experience is closely related but doesn't align perfectly with every qualification, we do encourage you to apply - you might be the right candidate for this or other roles at Scotiabank!
At Scotiabank, every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are and, embraced for their differences. That's why we work to grow and diversify talent and engage employees in a performance-oriented culture.
What's in it for you?
Scotiabank wants you to be able to bring your best self to work - and life, every day. With a focus on holistic well-being, our many flexible benefit programs are designed to help support your unique family, financial, physical, mental, and social health needs.
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Location(s): United States : Texas : Dallas
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.
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