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Provide leadership and vision for Scotiabank’s strategic data and analytics platform. Responsible for aligning and constructing the organization’s data pipeline technology products to meet the needs of IT and most importantly business. Support my highly skilled team that provides daily product engineering support and consulting. Conduct recruitment and development of departmental staff.Manage relationships inside and outside of the organization. Internally, work with stakeholders such as Data Management Office, Information Security and Audit to ensure current and future requirements and policies are translated into technologies, standards and architectures that meet requirements. Externally, collaborate with vendors to align services to Scotiabank needs.

Head Data Architecture Center of ExcellenceCo-reporting to Vice President Enterprise Applications and Vice President Enterprise Data Management Office- Portfolio EA responsibility for all Risk applications - Responsible for BCBS-239 (Risk Data Aggregation and Reporting RDAAR) - Risk Data Architecture submissions to internal Audit and OSFI - Architecture lead for Data Lineage capture across enterprise risk domains and platforms (Retail and Non-retail Credit, Structured Interest Rate, Liquidity, Market, Counterparty, Operational Risk)- Collaboration with Data Governance Office on implementation of Enterprise Metadata Repository and establishment of Enterprise Business Glossary (English and Spanish)- Manage team of data architects and technical specialists to support Data Architecture COE mandate (e.g. advocacy, training, best practices, documentation, project initiation)- Established reference architecture (RA) and enterprise standards for Metadata management- Participated development, design and implementation of Hadoop Enterprise Data Lake- Establish use and IT governance of Enterprise Logical Data Model (based on IBM Financial Services Data Model FSDM)

Working in area of Financial Compliance and Reporting, Risk Management and Anti-Money Laundering initiatives.- Lead solution architect for Liquidity Risk data integration. Design and management development team for loan, deposit, securities and off-balance sheet data collection and acquisition to Algorithmics engine.- Lead solution architect for Anti-Money Laundering Correspondent Banking/Electronic Wire monitoring program. Designed counterparty matching algorithms, testing and tuning criteria. REST Interfaces for Web based user application to manage workflow incoming AML alerts.

Electronic messaging specialist. - Technical lead on team to consolidate enterprise messaging platforms across Scotiabank's Canadian and international units and subsidiaries (Banyan, PROFS, Lotus Notes, cc:Mail, Netscape, SMTP)- Implemented messaging standards and established messaging gateway to allow interoperability, while decommissioning and migrating to common enterprise messaging platform.- Implementation of Scotiabank's first LDAP directory for branch platform authentication. - Supported design and development of in-house Capital Markets CRM system.- Lead programmer for AML Suspicious Transaction Reporting (UTR/STR) branch application. Participated in requirements from Scotiabank retail business as well as Federal regulator FINTRAC, interpreted to external design requirements/documentation.

Bell Sygma Systems Management Division.- Deployment and operations management of electronic messaging and collaboration infrastructure across Bell Canada- Lead design and implementation of system management and capacity monitoring in partnership with 407 ETR (NetView/HP OpenView and BMC Patrol Integration)

- Support of retail point of sale system (POS)- Implemented time and attendance reporting module - Led rewrite of POS system to provide new business functionality and hardware modernization, from DBase/Clipper to C++.- Production support on retail POS system and overnight MIS reporting/batch