Senior Manager/Director

at  TD Bank

BUILDING A WORLD-CLASS, DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE TECHNOLOGY TEAM

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.
The Market Risk and Product Control Technology team is looking for a Senior Manager/Director to contribute to and lead the extension of the platforms.
The role is a managerial role primarily responsible for the Market Risk Reporting application, and will be managing a local team of engineers, developers, and business systems analysts.
This candidate should also be able to inspire, motivate, and maximize a team of highly talented technologists, delivering solutions to the Product Control and Finance stakeholders in TD Securities.

EXPERIENCE AND / OR EDUCATION

BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent work experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Strong understanding of risk and financial products
• Strong interpersonal skills to explain and present concepts to technical and non-technical audiences alike
• Working knowledge of core Java, and Spring boot
• Working experience with various DB solutions such as Cassandra, IDLS, HBASE, and SQL Server is a plus
• Distinct ability and experience to lead data quality assessment and project implementation work gained through management experience
• Experience working on valuation systems backed by quantitative libraries
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding and experience with Cloud migrations and transformations
• Experience working on big data sets with bi-temporal support
• Experience working with Spark, Hadoop and REST services is a plus
• Experience working with scalable and low latency systems is a plus
• Outstanding ability to establish and maintain tech and business relationships and navigate a complex political landscape
• Ability to influence outside the area of assigned formal authority
• 10+ years of experience as a software engineer working on large scale development projects
• 3 to 4 years of team management experience

WHO WE ARE

TD Securities offers a wide range of capital markets products and services to corporate, government, and institutional clients who choose us for our innovation, execution, and experience. With more than 6,500 professionals operating out of 40 cities across the globe, we help clients meet their needs today and prepare for tomorrow. Our services include underwriting and distributing new issues, providing trusted advice and industry-leading insight, extending access to global markets, and delivering integrated transaction banking solutions. In 2023, we acquired Cowen Inc., offering our clients access to a premier U.S. equities business and highly-diverse equity research franchise, while growing our strong, diversified investment bank. We are growth-oriented, people-focused, and community-minded. As a team, we work to deliver value for our clients every day.

The role is primarily managerial in nature, and the ideal candidate would be a self-starting, motivated and high-performing individual who will be able collaborate closely with the Risk Management stakeholders to deliver changes, as well as define and execute the strategic future state of the platform.
On the technical side, the candidate is also expected to understand architectural design as well as the system functionalities. The candidate should also work with engineers on the team to spearhead cloud migration, application redesign initiatives. The role is senior in nature and is expected to collaborate closely with colleagues and executives in and outside the group, both on the business and technology side, in order to strategize and move forward the platform and dealer as a whole.
Selected candidate will be Technology Asset Owner (TAO) of the application, who is accountable for end-to-end delivery, design, implementation, and management of a technology system.