TD Bank

Data Scientist - FCRM

TD Bank$96K — $155K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Undergraduate degree in math, physics, engineering, finance, or computer science; graduate degree preferred.
  • 5+ years of relevant experience, with higher degree education counting toward experience.
  • Deep expertise in financial crime compliance and risk analytics.
  • Proficiency in data transformation, ETL, and analytics report generation.
  • Hands-on knowledge of machine learning, Microsoft Azure, Python, SQL, and Databricks.

Responsibilities

  • Lead analytics initiatives focusing on anti-money laundering (AML) typologies.
  • Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to support Financial Intelligence Units.
  • Oversee execution of multiple projects, ensuring timely and successful completion.
  • Utilize technical knowledge to explain complex data analyses to clients.
  • Develop scalable data science solutions in collaboration with diverse teams.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for growth and skill development.
  • Broad managerial and specialized knowledge exposure.
  • Enterprise-wide impact of analytics initiatives.
  • Supportive and positive work environment promoting teamwork.
  • Encouraging personal performance management and development activities.
Full Job Description
Work Location:
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Hours:
40

Pay Details:
$96,130 - $155,950 USD

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.

Line of Business:
Analytics, Insights, & Artificial Intelligence
Job Description:

Please be aware that this role within this line of business is only eligible to those candidates that are U.S. Citizens / Green Card Holders, and will not eligible for TD work visa support or sponsorship (e.g., H-1B, F-1 OPT/STEM OPT, TN or other work visa authorizations). Applicants must have authorization to work in the United States without current or future need for TD sponsorship.

Job Description:

The Data Scientist III provides technical leadership across the overall Analytics function which may have an enterprise mandate. This role generally provides deep technical knowledge and expertise in client interactions to explain complex data analysis related material.

Department Overview:

This position will be responsible for creating, developing, and maintaining a range of AML typologies, leveraging analytics to proactively identify and mitigate financial crime risks. The role involves close collaboration with cross-functional teams, supporting Financial Intelligence Units (FIU) through targeted data analysis, and contributing to strategic initiatives that strengthen our AML efforts across the organization. The individual will oversee the successful execution of multiple projects, ensuring they are completed within established timelines and providing a second level of oversight throughout. Prior experience and expertise with machine learning, Microsoft Azure, Python, SQL, and Databricks are essential for this position, and familiarity with both generative and agentic AI is highly valuable as we continue to advance our analytics capabilities.

Depth & Scope:
  • Generally accountable for a significant business management area that typically has enterprise-wide impact or accountability
  • Enterprise or functional expert, requiring broad managerial and deep specialized knowledge at the enterprise, business, regulatory and industry levels
  • Undertakes and completes a variety of complex initiatives requiring seasoned specialist knowledge and/or the integration of cross functional processes
  • Position typically deals with senior/executive management
  • Works independently on activities related to analysis, design and support of technical data management solutions on various projects ranging in complexity and size
  • Focuses on longer-range planning for functional area (e.g. 12 months or greater)
  • May manage and prioritize multiple projects at a given time


Education & Experience:
  • Undergraduate degree or advanced technical degree preferred (e.g., math, physics, engineering, finance or computer science) Graduate's degree preferred with either progressive project work experience or
  • 5+ year of relevant experience; higher degree education and research tenure can be counted


Preferred Skills:
  • Experience in Financial Crimes / Compliance Risk Analytics field
  • Experience in generating data and analytics insights and assisting financial institutions with addressing the efficiency and effectiveness of transaction monitoring systems
  • Experience with data transformation, ETL, and combining data from multiple sources to create analytics reports
  • Hands-on experience developing, validating, and deploying machine learning models
  • Experience with Microsoft Azure, Python, SQL, and Databricks
  • Experience with both generative and agentic AI


Customer Accountabilities:
  • Works closely with business owners to identify opportunities and serves as an ambassador for data science
  • Is familiar with the business context and data infrastructure and can translate business problems to viable data science solutions
  • Uses a wide range of programing languages (e.g. Python) and techniques for extracting and preparing data, applying statistics and various advanced analytics, along with business acumen to extract insights from the big data
  • Visualizes insights from the data to tell and illustrate stories that clearly convey the meaning of results to decision-makers and stakeholders at every level of technical understanding
  • Collaborates with other partners, such as data and business analysts, software engineers, data engineers, and application developers to develop scalable and sustainable data science solutions that retains long term benefit to the business


Shareholder Accountabilities:
  • Analytical thought leadership and stays current on developments in data mining and the application of data science
  • Solicits and offers ideas for improving business processes through insights with the objective of improving effectiveness and efficiency
  • Educates the organization on approaches, such as testing hypotheses and statistical validation of result
  • Helps the organization understand the principles and the math behind the scientist process to drive organizational alignment
  • Translates up to date information into continuous improvement activities that enhances performance
  • Adheres to enterprise frameworks or methodologies that relate to activities for business area
  • Ensures respective programs/policies/practices are well managed, meet business needs, comply with internal and external requirements, and align with business priorities
  • Participates in cross-functional/enterprise initiatives as a subject matter expert helping to identify risk/provide guidance for complex situations
  • Monitors service, productivity and assesses efficiency levels within own function and implements continuous process/performance improvements where opportunities exist
  • Leads/facilitates and/or implements action/remediation plans to address performance/risk/governance issues
  • Actively manages relationships within and across various business lines, corporate and/or control functions and ensures alignment with enterprise and/or regulatory requirements
  • Keeps abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assesses potential impacts
  • Maintains a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite


Employee/Team Accountabilities:
  • Participates fully as a member of the team, supports a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensures timely communication of issues/points of interest
  • Provides thought leadership and/or industry knowledge for own area of expertise in own area and participates in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit
  • Keeps current on emerging trends/developments and grows knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques
  • Participates in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within own team
  • Keeps 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
  • Contributes to team development of skills and capabilities through mentorship of others, by sharing knowledge and experiences and leveraging best practices
  • Leads, motivates and develops relationships with internal and external business partners/stakeholders to develop productive working relationships
  • Contributes to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce
  • Acts as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the bank, both internally and/or externally


Physical Requirements:

Never: 0%; Occasional: 1-33%; Frequent: 34-66%; Continuous: 67-100%
  • Domestic Travel - Occasional
  • International Travel - Never
  • Performing sedentary work - Continuous
  • Performing multiple tasks - Continuous
  • Operating standard office equipment - Continuous
  • Responding quickly to sounds - Occasional
  • Sitting - Continuous
  • Standing - Occasional
  • Walking - Occasional
  • Moving safely in confined spaces - Occasional
  • Lifting/Carrying (under 25 lbs.) - Occasional
  • Lifting/Carrying (over 25 lbs.) - Never
  • Squatting - Occasional
  • Bending - Occasional
  • Kneeling - Never
  • Crawling - Never
  • Climbing - Never
  • Reaching overhead - Never
  • Reaching forward - Occasional
  • Pushing - Never
  • Pulling - Never
  • Twisting - Never
  • Concentrating for long periods of time - Continuous
  • Applying common sense to deal with problems involving standardized situations - Continuous
  • Reading, writing and comprehending instructions - Continuous
  • Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing - Continuous


The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. The listed or specified responsibilities & duties are considered essential functions for ADA purposes.

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About TD Bank

TD Securities offers a range of advisory and capital market services to its clients. The company's range of services includes research, investment banking, capital markets, and global transaction banking. Research consists of commodity and equity research. Investment banking consists of mergers, acquisitions, industry expertise, and credit origination. Global transaction banking consists of trade finance, cash management, and correspondent banking. TD Securities was founded in 1855 and is based in Ontario.

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Market Cap
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Net Income
-$6.9 million
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