Full Stack Architect - Payments jobs at Td Bank in Canada, Toronto

CUSTOMER

• Play a key role in aligning internal and external stakeholders on the architecture / infrastructure aspect of the product strategy and delivery roadmap, communicating with and actively engaging with the Executive Product Owner in achieving the strategy.
• Lead on architecture backlog prioritization activities; advising on business / technology trade-offs
• Oversee portfolio of Product-based Delivery Work
• Review, approve / veto blueprints relative to enterprise standards.Advise on how best to design overall solutions
• Identify, recommend, source, negotiate and implement emerging end-to-end IT trends, developments and improvements / solutions (buy / build / reuse) through leadership of projects and contributing to segment-specific leadership committee insights focusing on overall operational steering for architecture
• Collaborate broadly with other practitioners, including marketing teams and engineers, to ensure the right look and necessary features for the products / projects and applications within assigned portfolio. Actively engages with the Practice on upskilling and building team capability
• The role may oversee a small team, and is responsible for coaching on knowledge, skills and performance, building and evolving the practice's capabilities
• Steer the process and connects partners in the creation of consumable assets that leverage and integrate proven reference architecture designs and patterns to select from many methodologies and steer the team beyond the theoretical in order to get the architecture tested and into production.
• Hold decision rights onArchitecture-specificstrategies and owns policies, roles and responsibilities within assigned Platform or Journey for the technology roadmap to ensure alignment with enterprise guidelines now and as the design evolves to meet future needs
• Oversee and advise on the design of technology applications and/or infrastructure on high profile, complex and/or high-risk technology projects with significant impact to the organization, playing an active role in the process of developing, customizing and integrating systems
• Drive continual upgrading based on an integrated perspective on existing gaps and opportunities for service / system development across the technology stacks and grounds the team in assessing practical concerns to evolve features
• The role may oversee a small team, and is responsible for coaching on knowledge, skills and performance, building and evolving the practice's capabilities

SHAREHOLDER

• Set service-level objectives (SLO) and exercise key decision rights of the FSA role
• Focus on reliability, scalability, and the development of the architectural infrastructure; including highly complex and scalable systems​
• Develops observability standards to ensure that production systems operate under known conditions and transparently provides these measurements to anticipate when errors or failures can arise.
• Lead interaction with governance and control groups, (e.g. regulatory / operational risk, compliance and audit) to provide subject matter expertise and consult on risk issues related to architectural technology and tools
• Lead or contribute to cross-functional / enterprise initiatives as an organizational or subject matter expert helping to identify risk / provide guidance for significant and complex situations
• Monitor and report on the status of the products / projects and applications within assigned product, ensuring projects are compliant with technology domain architecture, and designs / operates processes to provide ongoing review of in-progress activity against technology architecture and development standards
• Foresee architectural issues / gaps and identifies emerging industry trends to recommend value-added architectural improvements that will alleviate technology debt and build resilient solutions
• Maps processes and sub-processes that bridge the gap between business problems and technology solutions
• Keep track of changes made to code through control systems
• Collaborates within practices, platforms or journeys comprised of diverse and complementary skills; inspiring the team to embrace changes and continually advance collective knowledge of technical tools / trends
• Protect the interests of the organization – identify and manage risks, and escalate non-standard, high risk activities as necessary
• Keep abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts
• Maintain a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite

EMPLOYEE / TEAM

• Participate fully as a member of the team, support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest
• Provide thought leadership and/ or industry knowledge for quality engineering best practices and participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit
• Keep current on emerging trends/ developments and grow knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques
• Participate in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within own team
• Keep others informed and up-to-date about the status / progress of projects and / or all relevant or useful information related to day-to-day activities
• Contribute to team development of skills and capabilities through mentorship of others, by sharing knowledge and experiences and leveraging best practices; may take on the role of Chapter Lead as applicable
• Work collaboratively with the team and leadership to proactively identify and resolve issues related to product quality
• Lead, motivate and develop relationships with internal and external business partners / stakeholders to develop productive working relationships.
• Contribute to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce
• Act as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the bank, both internally and/or externally

BREADTH & DEPTH

In addition to standard L11 breadth and depth factors, the following criteria must be met:

• Top technical individual contributor role with accountability to guide technology selection through expert knowledge of the catalogue of technology stacks and practices associated with platforms, programming, languages and tools, as well as advanced business acumen and understanding of broader organization issues and relevant technology
• Accountable for the overall Architecture portfolio, roadmap and definition in the product-based org for their respective journey or platform
• Responsible for strategic decisions for the Architecture practice within a platform or journey, escalating as appropriate
• Sets collaboration framework and create solution prototypes for providing Architecture advice and guidance to the product-based org
• Controls solution and development, regulatory and compliance for complex system landscapes (e.g., hybrid, multi-cloud, edge workloads)
• Typically reports to the Architecture practice executive

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

• Undergraduate degree or Technical Certificate (Graduate degree preferred)
• 15+ years relevant experience developing a variety of platforms
• Experience with Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Pair programming and / or Test-Driven Development is an asset (i.e., ability to author Unit, Integration and Functional Tests)
• Demonstrated experience with leading technical tools integration in a complex environment

Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.

If you’re interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience, or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues, there are many different career paths within our organization at TD – and we’re committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.

We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW

The Architect will design the solution architecture end-to-end, follow enterprise architecture guidelines, work primarily within projects/products, contribute to strategic plans as needed, and lead project/product architecture blueprints at high and low level.

CUSTOMER

• Apply a multi-disciplined expertise with database, application, client tiers, layering of software, build, test and deploy strategies to create the overall design of software (including applications, infrastructure, middleware) and guide how the sub-components are developed by different teams
• Elevate focus on applications and data as differentiators for the customer experience, anchored in sound foundational elements of Infrastructure and Platforms
• Advise on suitability of technology stacks todefine principles/ key constraints for solution components; rallies the team around these principles to determine security / scalability approach, and impact assessments for future design
• Monitor and report on progress and collaborate broadly with other practitioners, including designers, engineers, and other applicable business stakeholders to ensure the necessary features for the products and applications are developed within assigned portfolio
• Design tests that will be implemented to keep the software functional; supports issue analysis and fix activities during test phases, as well as production issue resolution
• Collaborate with Practices, actively driving capability creation; mentoring and training junior colleagues to be adaptive, staying on top of expanding technologies and engineering trends and creating highly visual and functional solutions

SHAREHOLDER

• Set service-level objectives (SLO) and exercise key decision rights of the FSA role
• Focus on reliability, scalability, and the development of the architectural infrastructure; including highly complex and scalable systems​
• Develop observability standards to ensure that production systems operate under known conditions and transparently provides these measurements to anticipate when errors or failures can arise
• Lead interaction with governance and control groups, (e.g. regulatory / operational risk, compliance and audit) to provide subject matter expertise and consult on risk issues related to architectural technology and tools
• Lead or contribute to cross-functional / enterprise initiatives as an organizational or subject matter expert helping to identify risk / provide guidance for significant and complex situations
• Monitor and report on the status of the products / projects and applications within assigned product, ensuring projects are compliant with technology domain architecture, and review in-progress activity against technology architecture and development standards
• Foresee architectural issues / gaps and identify emerging industry trends to recommend value-added architectural improvements that will alleviate technology debt and build resilient solutions
• Map processes and sub-processes that bridge the gap between business problems and technology solutions
• Collaborate within practices, platforms or journeys comprised of diverse and complementary skills; inspiring the team to embrace changes and continually advance collective knowledge of technical tools / trends
• Protect the interests of the organization – identify and manage risks, and escalate non-standard, high risk activities as necessary
• Keep abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts
• Maintain a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite

EMPLOYEE / TEAM

• Participate fully as a member of the team, support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest
• Provide thought leadership and/ or industry knowledge for quality engineering best practices and participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit
• Keep current on emerging trends/ developments and grow knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques
• Participate in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within own team
• Keep others informed and up-to-date about the status / progress of projects and / or all relevant or useful information related to day-to-day activities
• Contribute to team development of skills and capabilities through mentorship of others, by sharing knowledge and experiences and leveraging best practices
• Work collaboratively with the team and leadership to proactively identify and resolve issues related to product quality
• Lead, motivate and develop relationships with internal and external business partners / stakeholders to develop productive working relationships
• Contribute to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce
• Act as a brand ambassador for Architecture and the bank, both internally and/or externally

BREADTH & DEPTH

• Seasoned individual contributor role with expert knowledge of specific enterprise and/or functional domain(s) and a demonstrated track record working with a broad range of architecture frameworks, technology, tools, processes and procedures
• Exceptional collaboration, communication, negotiation and client-facing skills (written and verbal)
• Big-picture thinker, with ability to anticipate architectural gaps and identify emerging trends through both advanced business acumen and highly specialized technical knowledge of TD and its applications, programming languages, industry best practices, Bank standards, infrastructure and architectural design / solutions
• Architect assigned to work autonomously on high profile, complex and/or high-risk technology projects with significant impact to the organization

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

• Undergraduate degree or Technical Certificate (Graduate degree preferred)
• 10+ years relevant experience developing a variety of platforms
• 7+ years of solution architecture experience ideally in the Insurance industry
• Demonstrated experience with owning and leading architectural solutions in a complex environment
• Strong knowledge of Guidewire Suite, including Guidewire Cloud Platform, Policy Center, Billing Center, ideally with relevant certifications with prior experience integrating with Guidewire
• Understanding of DevSecOps and experience with Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Pair programming and / or Test-Driven Development is an asset (i.e., ability to review or provide feedback to Unit, Integration and Functional Tests)
• Familiarity with SAFe agile methodology an asset
• Knowledge of AWS/Azure an asset

Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.

If you’re interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience, or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues, there are many different career paths within our organization at TD – and we’re committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.

We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Job Description:

Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.

If you’re interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience, or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues, there are many different career paths within our organization at TD – and we’re committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.

We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Job Description:

is leading the way in delivering scalable, secure, and user-centric solutions that support TD’s enterprise procurement lifecycle. We power the shopping and buying experience for vendor onboarding through modern platforms and tools — including intuitive UIs, Kafka event streaming, Azure Data pipelines, and cutting-edge Gen AI capabilities.

Responsibilities include:

• Design, develop, and maintain full-stack applications using React, CSS, HTML, and Node.js.
• Build and enhance internal tools using SharePoint and Power Apps to support procurement operations.
• Develop backend integration solutions using REST APIs, SFTP file transfers, Azure Data Factory/ microservices
• Implement Kafka event streaming to support real-time data flows and system interoperability.
• Collaborate with product owners, designers, and QA to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.
• Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and agile ceremonies.
• Ensure solutions are secure, compliant, and aligned with TD’s enterprise architecture standards.

CUSTOMER

• Develop new solutions as required for engineering programs and projects within assigned area
• Develop new features and perform unit / component test for new application development initiatives aligned to business needs and in accordance with technology architecture standards
• Support business enquiries and business activities through execution of small enhancements and break / fix implementations (e.g. source code changes) May also be responsible for peer code review.
• Work with technology partners to ensure the configuration and custom components meet application requirements and performance goals
• Analyze the technical requirements to recommend pragmatic and sound engineering specific solutions for own area, may be involved in coding/story estimates
• Work with other stakeholders, internal technology partners to ensure engineering solutions meet technical direction, requirements, performance, time-to-market and innovation goals
• Monitor product lifecycles, ensuring specifications and functionality support business objectives and engineering decisions, undertaking re-development where required
• Document and verify system components, applications, system infrastructure, security, integration, operability and engineering related architecture designs associated with a program or project
• Participate in quality management reviews, in particular reviews of the designs, prototypes and other requirements work products to ensure they fulfill the requirements
• Create and maintain quality code, ensure defect free programming consistent with standards; provide code maintenance and support during testing cycles and post-production deployment and participate in reviewing peer coding
• Provide technical expertise during Incident management, analyze incident reports and outages, perform impact assessment for incidents and facilitate internal and external communication throughout incident resolution
• Participate in identifying and recommending development / testing solutions / tools in support of project / application objectives
• Assist in the development / maintenance of comprehensive processes for prevention of issues and participate in problem determination and timely resolution of incidents applying appropriate quality measures

SHAREHOLDER

• Adhere to enterprise frameworks or methodologies that relate to software engineering activities
• Ensure respective programs/ policies/practices are well managed, meets business needs, complies with internal and external requirements, and aligns with business priorities
• Collaboratively engage with relevant stakeholders at all levels, both internal and external, to shift from finding defects to proactively preventing defects
• Actively seek and support continuous improvement and automation opportunities within the engineering practice
• Conduct meaningful analysis at the functional or enterprise level using results to draw conclusions, make recommendations, assess the effectiveness of programs/ policies/ practices
• Identify opportunities to minimize cost, provide recommendations and/or deliver corresponding strategic solutions to support cost effectiveness and to enhance stakeholder experience
• Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to quality, standards compliance, reusability and ease of maintenance, Operational Readiness Reviews, and supporting gating and review sign-offs for solution design
• Monitor service, productivity and assess efficiency levels within own function and implement continuous process / performance improvements where opportunities exists
• Lead / facilitate and/or implement actions / remediation plans to address performance / risk /governance issues
• Actively manage relationships within and across various business lines, corporate and/or control functions and ensure alignment with enterprise and/or regulatory requirements
• Protect the interests of the organization – identify and manage risks, and escalate non-standard, high risk activities as necessary
• Keep abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts
• Maintain a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite

EMPLOYEE / TEAM

• Participate fully as a member of the team, support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest
• Provide thought leadership and/ or industry knowledge for quality engineering best practices and participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit
• Keep current on emerging trends/ developments and grow knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques
• Participate in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within own team
• Keep others informed and up-to-date about the status / progress of projects and / or all relevant or useful information related to day-to-day activities
• Actively mentors and enables team members by sharing knowledge and leveraging engineering best practices.
• Supports the team by providing guidance and proactively identifying and resolving issues
• Lead, motivate and develop relationships with internal and external business partners / stakeholders to develop productive working relationships.
• Contribute to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce
• Act as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the bank, both internally and/or externally

BREADTH & DEPTH

• Advanced knowledge of specific domain or range of engineering frameworks, technology, tools, processes and procedures, as well as organization issues
• Performs complex to difficult technical tasks independently
• Advanced knowledge of technology, tools, various programming languages, processes, and procedures
• Develops program specifications; adapts, integrates, codes, tests and debugs programs; and is responsible for executing
• Uses existing procedures to solve routine problems; makes limited exceptions
• Generally reports to a Practice lead

EXPERIENCE AND / OR EDUCATION

• Undergraduate degree, Postgraduate degree or Technical Certificate.

• Strong academic background (e.g., computer science, engineering).

• 5+ years of experience in full-stack development with a strong portfolio of enterprise applications.

• Proficiency in React, Node.js, HTML/CSS, and modern JavaScript frameworks.

• Experience with SharePoint Online, Power Apps, and Microsoft 365 integrations.

• Solid understanding of RESTful API design, SFTP protocols, and event-driven architecture.

• Hands-on experience with Azure Data Factory, microservices, and Kafka.

• Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across business and technical teams.

Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.

If you’re interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience, or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues, there are many different career paths within our organization at TD – and we’re committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.

We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Architect end-to-end data solutions across multiple domains, ensuring they meet business, technical, and regulatory requirements.
• Design and maintain enterprise data models (conceptual, logical, and physical), data flows, and integration patterns across systems and platforms.
• Serve as a strategic advisor on data governance, collaborating with stakeholders to define data standards, stewardship models, quality rules, and metadata strategies.
• Evaluate and recommend data platforms, tools, and technologies (e.g., cloud data warehouses, MDM, data catalogs, analytics platforms) based on use case fit, scalability, and compliance.
• Partner with data engineering, analytics, and business teams to deliver modern data architectures (e.g., lakehouse, event-driven, real-time).
• Lead data assessments to identify gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities in existing data ecosystems.
• Ensure alignment with privacy, security, and compliance standards (e.g., PIPEDA, GDPR, CCPA).
• Contribute to data strategy and roadmap development, providing architectural input and governance frameworks.
• Promote best practices in data management, data lifecycle, access control, and lineage documentation.

• Work effectively with multiple teams across a broad spectrum of initiatives and functional domains, influencing and aligning others as needed.
• Adhere to enterprise frameworks and methodologies that relate to business management activities for own area.

• Actively manage relationships with corporate and/or control functions and ensure alignment with enterprise and/or regulatory requirements.
• Keep abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts to the Bank.
• Assess / identify key issues and escalate to appropriate levels and relevant stakeholders where required.
• Provides thought leadership and/or industry knowledge for own area of expertise.

• Support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation, and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness, and operational efficiency.
• Work effectively as a team, supporting other members of the team in achieving business objectives and providing client services.
• Participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business units.

BREADTH & DEPTH

• Work autonomously and accountable for acting as a lead.
• Provide seasoned specialized knowledge, advice and/or guidance to various stakeholders and team members.
• Scope of role may have enterprise impact.
• Undertake and complete a variety of projects and initiatives requiring knowledge and/or the integration of cross functional processes within own area of expertise.
• Oversee and/or independently perform tasks from end to end.

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in data architecture, data management, or enterprise data engineering.
• Strong knowledge of data governance frameworks (e.g., DAMA-DMBOK), policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Solid understanding of metadata management, data cataloging (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Informatica), and data lineage tools.
• Proven experience translating complex business requirements into scalable technical data solutions.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to proactively identify risks/issues and recommend solution(s).
• Shows initiative, creativity, and critical thinking in their work.
• Ability to challenge status quo and to influence change.
• High degree of organizational awareness and sensitivity - strong ability to manage productive relationships with business partners and stakeholders at various levels.

Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.

If you’re interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience, or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues, there are many different career paths within our organization at TD – and we’re committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.

We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Job Description:

Looking for a Full Stack Architect with experience working with business and technology teams to define complex multi-application solutions. The successful candidate will lead teams in defining solutions, including working closely with business and technology leaders to inform and execute on the bank's application visions.

• The Full Stack Architect will be required to work closely with business and technology leaders to plan and prioritize long-term objectives, including defining high level architectures that adhere to the strategic direction.
• The Full Stack Architect will lead the definition of detailed architectures, interfacing with team and partner architects to prepare well-defined end to end solutions.
• The Architect will be required to understand and provide guidance on the technical aspects of the solution, and will often work closely with the Technology team partners. The SA will need to look at a problem from a number of angles to assess the most strategic and/or appropriate way of solving the problem.

The Solution Architect will:

• Take direction from Distinguished & Practice Area Architects supporting the platform.
• Work closely with other enterprise architects, business, and technology delivery partners to define and contribute to both high-level (for estimation) and detailed solutions (for delivery).
• Prepare and contribute to the authoring of platform architecture visions.
• Prepare architecture blueprints / designs.
• Prepare diagrams and other artefacts to support solution discussions and communicate decisions.
• Perform options analyses and document Architecture Assessment of Options.
• Ensure alignment to, and promote advancement of, the Architecture Vision for the domain.

CUSTOMER

• Apply a multi-disciplined expertise with database, application, client tiers, layering of software, build, test and deploy strategies in order to create the overall design of software (including applications, infrastructure, middleware) and guide how the sub-components are developed by different teams
• Elevate focus on applications and data as differentiators for the customer experience, anchored in sound foundational elements of Infrastructure and Platforms
• Advise on suitability of technology stacks todefine principles/ key constraints for solution components; rallies the team around these principles to determine security / scalability approach, and impact assessments for future design
• Drive continual upgrading and grounds the team in assessing practical program concerns to innovate on both server-side and user-side features as technologies / platforms expand to reduce technology debt and build resilient solutions
• Lead code reviews to create and test prototypes to assess viability of approaches. Uses configuration management and integration / build automation tools to lead and deploy code, gather proof points for developers to build on, navigate around complexities based on a clear understanding of the vision across the technology stacks and provide critical suggestions for fixes and improvements on the integration
• Monitor and report on progress and collaborates broadly with other practitioners, including designers, engineers, and other applicable business stakeholders to ensure the necessary features for the products and applications are developed within assigned portfolio
• Design tests that will be implemented to keep the software functional; supports issue analysis and fix activities during test phases, as well as production issue resolution
• Collaborates with Practices, actively driving capability creation; mentoring and training junior colleagues to be adaptive, staying on top of expanding technologies and engineering trends and creating highly visual and functional solutions

SHAREHOLDER

• Set service-level objectives (SLO) and exercise key decision rights of the FSA role
• Focus on reliability, scalability, and the development of the architectural infrastructure; including highly complex and scalable systems​
• Develops observability standards to ensure that production systems operate under known conditions and transparently provides these measurements to anticipate when errors or failures can arise.
• Lead interaction with governance and control groups, (e.g. regulatory / operational risk, compliance and audit) to provide subject matter expertise and consult on risk issues related to architectural technology and tools
• Lead or contribute to cross-functional / enterprise initiatives as an organizational or subject matter expert helping to identify risk / provide guidance for significant and complex situations
• Monitor and report on the status of the products / projects and applications within assigned product, ensuring projects are compliant with technology domain architecture, and designs / operates processes to provide ongoing review of in-progress activity against technology architecture and development standards
• Foresee architectural issues / gaps and identifies emerging industry trends to recommend value-added architectural improvements that will alleviate technology debt and build resilient solutions
• Maps processes and sub-processes that bridge the gap between business problems and technology solutions
• Keep track of changes made to code through control systems
• Collaborates within practices, platforms or journeys comprised of diverse and complementary skills; inspiring the team to embrace changes and continually advance collective knowledge of technical tools / trends
• Protect the interests of the organization – identify and manage risks, and escalate non-standard, high risk activities as necessary
• Keep abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts
• Maintain a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite

EMPLOYEE / TEAM

• The team provides the architectural direction on systems in the buying, customer onboarding, advice, and pricing areas of the bank.
• Participate fully as a member of the team, support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest
• Provide thought leadership and/ or industry knowledge for quality engineering best practices and participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit
• Keep current on emerging trends/ developments and grow knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques
• Participate in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within own team
• Keep others informed and up-to-date about the status / progress of projects and / or all relevant or useful information related to day-to-day activities
• Contribute to team development of skills and capabilities through mentorship of others, by sharing knowledge and experiences and leveraging best practices; may take on the role of Chapter Lead as applicable
• Work collaboratively with the team and leadership to proactively identify and resolve issues related to product quality
• Lead, motivate and develop relationships with internal and external business partners / stakeholders to develop productive working relationships.
• Contribute to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce
• Act as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the bank, both internally and/or externally

READTH & DEPTH

• Seasoned individual contributor role with expert knowledge of specific enterprise and/or functional domain(s) and a demonstrated track record working with a broad range of architecture frameworks, technology, tools, processes and procedures
• Exceptional collaboration, communication and client-facing skills
• Big-picture thinker, with ability to anticipate architectural gaps and identify emerging trends through both advanced business acumen and highly specialized technical knowledge of TD and its applications, programming languages, industry best practices, Bank standards, infrastructure and architectural design / solutions
• Architect assigned to work autonomously on high profile, complex and/or high-risk technology projects with significant impact to the organization

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

• Undergraduate degree or Technical Certificate (Graduate degree preferred)
• 10+ years relevant experience developing a variety of platforms
• Demonstrate exceptional collaboration, communication and client-facing skills
• Be cable of working autonomously on high profile, complex and/or high-risk technology projects with significant impact to the organization
• Be a proactive thinker when it comes to providing recommendations on value-added architectural improvements and enhancements.
• Have experience defining and communicating multi-application solution architectures within a broader system ecosystem.
• Have experience working with both technical- and business-minded teams to identify problems and requirements, in defining solutions, and in translating problems/solutions across all stakeholders.
• Have expert knowledge of architecture related to specific technologies, tools, processes, procedures and broader business issues and relevant technologies. Familiarity with Java, Angular, Azure, OIDC, REST, and event-based architectures, and experience working on customer-facing digital applications.
• Experience with Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Pair programming and / or Test-Driven Development is an asset (i.e., ability to author Unit, Integration and Functional Tests)
• Demonstrated experience with leading technical tools integration in a complex environment

Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.

If you’re interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience, or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues, there are many different career paths within our organization at TD – and we’re committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.

We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Business Banking Platform Architect

• Delivering high level and detailed level designs for the Business Bank that align to the Business Banking vision
• Contribute to the modernization of the platform and deliver solutions that are stable, secure and leverage MACH principles and/or Events
• Partner with technology delivery and business owners to provide solutions that meet OKRs and advance towards their aspirational target state for the business and platform

CUSTOMER

• Apply a multi-disciplined expertise with database, application, client tiers, layering of software, build, test and deploy strategies in order to create the overall design of software (including applications, infrastructure, middleware) and guide how the sub-components are developed by different teams
• Elevate focus on applications and data as differentiators for the customer experience, anchored in sound foundational elements of Infrastructure and Platforms
• Advise on suitability of technology stacks todefine principles/ key constraints for solution components; rallies the team around these principles to determine security / scalability approach, and impact assessments for future design
• Drive continual upgrading and grounds the team in assessing practical program concerns to innovate on both server-side and user-side features as technologies / platforms expand to reduce technology debt and build resilient solutions
• Experience with modernization initiatives delivering end to end solutions leveraging cloud infrastructure, featuring composable services to promote efficiency and re-use
• Monitor and report on progress and collaborates broadly with other practitioners, including designers, engineers, and other applicable business stakeholders to ensure the necessary features for the products and applications are developed within assigned portfolio
• Experience with designing systems to be loosely coupled and capable of producing and consuming domain object state changes using MACH and or Event driven design
• Collaborates with Practices, actively driving capability creation; mentoring and training junior colleagues to be adaptive, staying on top of expanding technologies and engineering trends and creating highly visual and functional solutions

SHAREHOLDER

• Set service-level objectives (SLO) and exercise key decision rights of the FSA role
• Focus on reliability, scalability, and the development of the architectural infrastructure; including highly complex and scalable systems​
• Develops observability standards to ensure that production systems operate under known conditions and transparently provides these measurements to anticipate when errors or failures can arise.
• Lead interaction with governance and control groups, (e.g. regulatory / operational risk, compliance and audit) to provide subject matter expertise and consult on risk issues related to architectural technology and tools
• Lead or contribute to cross-functional / enterprise initiatives as an organizational or subject matter expert helping to identify risk / provide guidance for significant and complex situations
• Monitor and report on the status of the products / projects and applications within assigned product, ensuring projects are compliant with technology domain architecture
• Foresee architectural issues / gaps and identifies emerging industry trends to recommend value-added architectural improvements that will alleviate technology debt and build resilient solutions
• Maps processes and sub-processes that bridge the gap between business problems and technology solutions
• Collaborates within practices, platforms or journeys comprised of diverse and complementary skills; inspiring the team to embrace changes and continually advance collective knowledge of technical tools / trends
• Protect the interests of the organization – identify and manage risks, and escalate non-standard, high risk activities as necessary
• Keep abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts
• Maintain a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite

EMPLOYEE / TEAM

• Participate fully as a member of the team, support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest
• Provide thought leadership and/ or industry knowledge for quality engineering best practices and participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit
• Keep current on emerging trends/ developments and grow knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques
• Participate in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within own team
• Keep others informed and up-to-date about the status / progress of projects and / or all relevant or useful information related to day-to-day activities
• Contribute to team development of skills and capabilities through mentorship of others, by sharing knowledge and experiences and leveraging best practices; may take on the role of Chapter Lead as applicable
• Work collaboratively with the team and leadership to proactively identify and resolve issues related to product quality
• Lead, motivate and develop relationships with internal and external business partners / stakeholders to develop productive working relationships.
• Contribute to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce
• Act as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the bank, both internally and/or externally

BREADTH & DEPTH

• Seasoned individual contributor role with expert knowledge of specific enterprise and/or functional domain(s) and a demonstrated track record working with a broad range of architecture frameworks, technology, tools, processes and procedures
• Exceptional collaboration, communication and client-facing skills
• Big-picture thinker, with ability to anticipate architectural gaps and identify emerging trends through both advanced business acumen and highly specialized technical knowledge of TD and its applications, programming languages, industry best practices, Bank standards, infrastructure and architectural design / solutions
• Architect assigned to work autonomously on high profile, complex and/or high-risk technology projects with significant impact to the organization
• Reports to an Architecture Practice Lead / Practice Area Lead

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

• Undergraduate degree or Technical Certificate (Graduate degree preferred)
• 10+ years relevant experience developing a variety of platforms
• Experience with Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Pair programming and / or Test-Driven Development is an asset (i.e., ability to author Unit, Integration and Functional Tests)
• Demonstrated experience with leading technical tools integration in a complex environment

Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.

If you’re interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience, or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues, there are many different career paths within our organization at TD – and we’re committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.

We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.