Work Location:Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hours:37.5
Line of Business:Technology Solutions
Pay Details:$149,500 - $177,000 CAD
This role is eligible for a discretionary variable compensation award that considers business and individual performance.
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.
Job Description:Building a World-Class, Diverse and Inclusive Technology Team at TDWe 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.
The new architect will primarily support the payments data domain and engaged with various technologies such as MongoDB, Kafka, public cloud (primarily Azure), APIs, microservices architecture and containers (Azure AKS and GDC GKE). Previous experience with payments, payments technologies and payments architecture is a valuable asset. Here's some of the tasks 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)
- 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.
Meaningful work is fueled by meaningful performance and career development conversations with your manager.
CUSTOMER- Strong communication skills. Ability to understand business needs and provide practical architecture and technology solutions while advancing the overall long-term vision
- 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 to define 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- 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- Experience in data architecture and strong familiarity with various data domain technologies.
- Understanding payment systems and engines, both domestic and international payments
- Deep understanding of Mongo DB technology.
- Understanding of event based architecture, Kafka and micro-services architecture
- Understanding of public cloud ecosystems is an asset, primarily Azure.
- Understanding of containerization technologies, primarily AKS, GDC/GKE.
- 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
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