Job Description

Company Overview

Our Values
At TD we\'re guided by our purpose is to enrich the lives of our customers, communities and colleagues, and share a set of values that shape our culture and guide our behavior. In exchange for how our colleagues show up to help TD succeed, we are committed to delivering a colleague experience grounded in Impact, Growth and a Culture of Care. No matter where you work across TD, we empower you to make an impact at work and in your community, explore and grow your career and be part of our caring and inclusive culture.

Making Your Well-being a Priority
A caring and supportive culture that promotes colleague well-being is core to who we are. At TD, we focus on total well-being with extensive programs to help colleagues assess, manage, and improve their well-being across four core pillars - physical, financial, social and mental/emotional. In addition, we champion a safe, inclusive and supportive work environment to help colleagues feel a sense of belonging, and supported in their personal and professional growth. Through our focus on total well-being, we know that we can help our colleagues thrive, contribute to our culture of care, and support better business outcomes \xe2\x80\xa6 because when colleagues feel their best, they\'re more likely to do their best.

Our Total Rewards Package
Our Total Rewards package reflects the investment we make in our colleagues to help them, and their families achieve their well-being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary, variable compensation, and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits including medical, dental, vision & mental health coverage, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs.

How We Work
At TD, we believe in-person connections fuel collaboration and collective creativity. Our workplace experience empowers colleagues to do great work side-by-side at TD locations, while offering flexibility to work remotely where it makes sense for the work and team. Our teams work in one of three workplace models: hybrid, onsite and primarily remote. Wherever our colleagues are working, they\'ll always have access to the TD community and experience our culture of care.

Who We Are
TD is one of the world\'s leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches. Every day, we deliver legendary customer experiences to over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world. More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to the Bank, those we serve, and the economies we support. We are guided by our vision to Be the Better Bank and our purpose to enrich the lives of our customers, communities and colleagues. TD is a customer obsessed organization, and we are deeply committed to being a leader in customer experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are customer facing. As we build our business and deliver on our strategy, we are innovating to enhance the customer experience and build capabilities to shape the future of banking. Whether you\'ve got years of banking experience or are just starting your career in financial services, we can help you realize your potential. Through regular leadership and development conversations to mentorship and training programs, we\'re here to support you towards your goals. As an organization, we keep growing - and so will you.

Department Overview

Building a World-Class, Diverse and Inclusive Technology Team at TD
We can\'t afford to be boring. Neither can you. The scale and scope of what TD does may surprise you. The rapid pace of change makes it a business imperative for us to be smart and open-minded in the way we think about technology. TD\'s technology and business teams become more intertwined as new opportunities present themselves. This new era in banking does not equal boring. Not at TD, anyway.
TD IT Architecture covers TD\'s overall technology strategy, direction, standards for designing and/or developing an architecture framework including technology architecture strategy, policies, guiding principles and standards to govern how technology solutions will be developed and implemented across the organization. Architects typically develop and maintain any combination of the following: solution and application architecture, infrastructure environment architecture, technical integration architecture, data strategies and models, security and enterprise architecture.
There\'s room to grow in all of it.

Job Requirements

What can you bring toted? Share your credentials, but your relevant experience and knowledge can be just as likely to get our attention. It helps if you have:

• Undergraduate Degree or Technical Certificate.
• Graduate Degree preferred.
• 10+ years relevant experience.
• Experience with patterns and implementation of Events, Microservices, cloud native and Rest API.
• Industry Domain experience in High Value Payments or Real Time Payments domains and key vendors in this space (ACI, Volante, FIS, Finastra, etc)
• Working knowledge of SaFE Agile.
• A self-starter and be able to elaborate business requirements to build out a solution.
• Experience with Azure Cloud Services, Cloud first delivery, DevOps and Automated testing.
• Demonstrated experience in providing technical leadership, consulting and direction to a larger team on all aspects of architecture to ensure advanced learning occurs.
• Strength in influencing product direction and integrating technology from an architectural perspective within the business environment, and can fulfill an IT governance role.
• Ability to serve as the top technical individual expert who can impart knowledge of architecture related to specific domains or broad range of architecture frameworks, technologies, tools, processes, procedures and broader technologies and relevant issues.
• Advanced and highly specialized knowledge of TD applications, programming languages, industry best practices, the business and associated standards, infrastructure and architectural design and solutions and governance.
• Interest and proven ability to work autonomously as an architectural specialist on high profile, complex and high risk technology projects with significant organizational impact.
• Proactive thinking when it comes to providing recommendations on value-added architectural improvements and enhancements.

• Capacity to take on more areas of focus (e.g. Enterprise, data, application and technology architecture domains).

Hours

37.5

Job Details

We are looking for someone to join us to put their stamp on a domain or segment specialization while providing direction, guidance and governance on structure, design, technology applications and infrastructure. All of this feeds into our focus on developing, customizing and integrating systems. You\'ll be able to demonstrate how your valuable knowledge and guidance can strengthen technology team and business area understanding of architectural options and technology choices. If this reads to you like a role that\'s fundamentally important to TD\'s Architecture team and the organization as a whole, your instinct is right.

Meaningful work is fueled by meaningful performance and career development conversations with your manager.

Here\'s some of what you may be asked to perform:

• Work directly with various teams and solution architects to understand problems and business requirements, assisting with issue resolution and solution alignment.
• Guide architecture & engineering teams to define reusable patterns, leverage modern architectural approaches (DDD, DevOps, Events, Cloud, Microservices)
• Experience designing Container based solutions on Kubernetes and/or designing Kubernetes clusters.
• Assist with TD\'s Payments Platform strategy that supports and enhances the Payments domains and its related capabilities (High Value Payments, Real Time Payments, Mass Payments, Payments processing and common services) at TD bank.
• Lead design and development of an architecture framework to govern how solutions will be produced and implemented, including technology domain architecture strategy, policies, guiding principles and standards.
• Oversee and define development specifications, technical requirements, system performance objectives, identify necessary system modifications.
• Identify, recommend, source, negotiate, implement emerging IT trends, developments and improvements and solutions (buy, build, reuse).
• Research and analyze business requirements to recommend optimal architecture solutions.
• Participate as a top expert and consultant on the most high-risk and complex initiatives.
• Provide insight and recommendations to develop and implement system architecture with business units and technology departments while creating awareness of total ownership costs.
• Impart subject matter expertise to influence vendors on product design, develop and contribute to third-party contract negotiations where applicable.
• Build consensus, facilitate collaboration and decision-making within and across business units so IT strategy application aligns with architecture framework.
• Apply industry and technical knowledge to provide solutions that increase business results and minimize risk.
• Lead in knowledge transfer meetings with senior management, team, other technical area sand business units.

Workplace Model

Hybrid

Inclusiveness

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
At TD, we\'re committed to fostering an environment where all colleagues are encouraged to bring their authentic selves to work, experience equitable opportunities, and feel respected and supported. We\'re dedicated to building an inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity of the customers and the communities in which we live and serve.

How We\'re Helping Make an Impact in Communities
TD has a long-standing commitment to help drive progress towards a more inclusive and sustainable future. That\'s why we launched the TD Ready Commitment in 2018, now a multi-year North American initiative. Under the TD Ready Commitment, we are targeting a total of $1 billion by 2030 in community giving four key, interconnected drivers of change: Financial Security, Vibrant Planet, Connected Communities, and Better Health. It\'s our goal to help support change, nurture progress, and contribute to making the world a better, more inclusive place for our customers, colleagues, and communities.

Accommodation
Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if you\'d like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Additional Information

Business Line

Corporate

Job Category - Primary

Technology Solutions

Job Category(s)

Technology Solutions

Job Family

Architecture

Time Type

Full Time

Employment Type

Regular

Pay Details

We\'re committed to providing fair and equitable compensation to all our colleagues. As a candidate, we encourage you to have an open dialogue with your recruiter and ask compensation related questions, including pay details for this role.

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