Job Description

Work Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hours: 37.5
Line of Business: Technology Solutions
Pay Details: $115,600 - $163,200 CAD
This role is temporarily eligible for a pay premium above the posted salary range that is reassessed annually. You are encouraged to have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide more specific pay details for this role.
TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.
As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.
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IT Architect
Position Overview:
Position Title: Transaction Banking Core Full Stack Architect
Job Level: 11
Business Unit: Enterprise Architecture
Division: Technology Solutions
Hiring Contact: Percy Golding
Transit/CC:5846
Location: Toronto
Hours: Monday-Friday
Role Name: Payments Full Stack Architect
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.
About This Role
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, Data Pipelines)
• Experience designing Container based solutions on Kubernetes and/or designing Kubernetes clusters (Azure AKS)
• Assist with TD's Transaction Banking strategy that supports modernization of Core Banking, Payments and Data platforms at TD bank for corporate commercial customers.
• 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.

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, api gateway and Rest API.
• Industry Domain experience in Core Banking Products (Ledgers, Finacle, DDA & Term Deposits, Credit Products) and Data platforms (Azure, Data Bricks, Data Modeling)
• Working knowledge of SaFE Agile.
• A self-starter and 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).

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/stores. Every day, we strive to make every interaction, product, and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple for 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 foster deeper relationships, ensure disciplined execution, and build a simpler, faster banking experience. TD is deeply committed to being a leader in client experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are client facing. Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.
Our Total Rewards Package
Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical, and mental 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, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs.
Additional Information:
We're delighted that you're considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we're committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.
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.
Colleague Development
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.
If you're passionate about helping clients and building deep, lasting relationships, TD offers diverse career paths where you can grow your expertise and make a meaningful impact.
We're committed to your success and foster a respectful workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, everyone has fair opportunities to grow, and you can unlock your full potential to achieve your career goals. Here at TD, we hire and develop the best.
Training & Onboarding
We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you've got everything you need to succeed in your new role.
Interview Process
We'll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.
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!
Language Requirement (Quebec only): Sans Objet

Skills Required