JOB REQUIREMENTS:

What can you bring to TD? 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 Faster Payments and Tokenized/Digital Wallet spaces
• Solid understand of other domains like High-Value Payments, Bulk Payments and Shared Services
• 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, Kubernetes 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 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 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.

We are looking for a talented architect to join us in Payments. We want someone who will 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.
• Help bring to life TD’s Payments Platform strategy that supports and enhances our Payments domains and its related capabilities like Faster & Global Commerce Payments, Tokenization, High Value Payments, Bulk Payments and Shared Services.
• 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.