Job Description

Requisition ID: 258351

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

The Role

The Director, Reporting Systems is a senior technology leader responsible for defining, governing, and advancing the organization’s enterprise reporting and analytics ecosystem.

This role owns the strategic roadmap for reporting platforms and ensures alignment with the broader enterprise architecture, data strategy, and digital transformation initiatives.

With deep technical expertise in Oracle OBI and Microsoft Power BI, the Director leads the design, development, and optimization of reporting solutions that deliver actionable insights and support data-driven decision-making across the organization

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

Strategic Leadership and Roadmap Ownership

• Develop and maintain a multi-year enterprise reporting roadmap aligned with business strategy and enterprise architecture.
• Lead modernization initiatives including platform consolidation and cloud adoption.
• Partner with enterprise architects to ensure reporting systems integrate with data warehouses, data lakes, ERP systems, and cloud platforms.

Architecture and technical oversight

• Oversee architecture and performance of Oracle OBI and Microsoft Power BI environments.
• Direct development of semantic models, RPD layers, data pipelines, and reusable datasets.
• Ensure adherence to enterprise architecture principles including security, data quality, and lifecycle management.

Team and Project Leadership

• Lead and mentor BI developers, reporting analysts, and data specialists.
• Manage the reporting project portfolio and cross-functional initiatives.
• Oversee vendor relationships, licensing, and platform upgrades.

Operational Excellence

• Implement monitoring, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, and security of reporting systems.
• Develop documentation, training programs, and user enablement strategies

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

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a related field.
• 10+ years in BI, reporting systems, or enterprise data management.
• 7+ years leading BI/reporting teams.
• Accounting designation or certification is an asset

Technical Expertise

• Advanced experience with Oracle OBI (OBIEE, OAS).
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Power BI including DAX and data modeling.
• Understanding of SQL, data warehousing, ETL, and enterprise data architecture.

Leadership and Soft skills

• Ability to define and execute strategic roadmaps.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strategic thinker with hands-on problem-solving abilities

What's in it for you?

• We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success!
• We provide you with the tools and technology needed to create new customer experiences.
• You'll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world
• Onsite cafeteria.
• Dress codes don't apply here, being comfortable does.
• We offer a competitive total rewards package that includes a base salary, a performance bonus, company matching programs (pension & profit sharing), generous vacation, personal & sick days, personal development funding, maternity leave top-up, parental leave 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.