Director - TDS

Work Location:

Hours:

Line of Business:

Pay Details:

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 candidates skills and experience jobrelated 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:

*PREIDENTIFIED CANDIDATE*

CUSTOMER

• Lead / manage a team of Engineers / Technology Specialists and oversee related engineering analysis activities and deliverables
• Provide overall team leadership training coaching development succession recruitment and resource management and ensures ongoing performance feedback and assessments occur and development plans exist for each team member. Engages team with Platform and Journey leads to ensure 2way feedback of Practitioners occurs.
• Execute introducing engineering tools methodologies and processes across the enterprise
• Accountability to understand the current skills and capabilities within their practice actively working to close gaps that may exist through additional learning coaching supports etc.
• Leverage deep technology expertise for own area of specialization to deliver and ensure that all areas across the organization that provision manage and support various technologies have the necessary tools processes and documentation required to effectively execute on their respective mandates
• Execute on Engineering strategy as it relates to the introduction of tools and the automation of build test release and configure activities across Application Platform and Infrastructure
• Partner with the Operations team to automatically integrate with appropriate tools and processes as part of automated/selfserve Application Platform or Infrastructure releases
• Work with partners across Technology and apply indepth understanding of relevant business needs to identify and leverage synergies across the various areas
• Act as the expert or lead innovator and agent of change for the programs and services under management
• Lead interface with other technology teams to implement best practices standards and management
• Work with vendor platform providers and engineering peers to keep abreast of trends products frameworks and applications
• Identify and effectively manage stakeholder engagement and impacts across the enterprise
• Engage executive stakeholders appropriately to review progress and obtain input validation and approval of key decisions
• Anticipate client needs to influence the development of innovative engineering solutions as well as business strategies

SHAREHOLDER

• Anticipate internal/external business and regulatory issues; recommends process/product/organizational improvements
• Manage resource requirements and assignment ensuring project milestones are met and monitoring to keep projects on schedule and within budget
• Oversee business expenses and FTE plans and ensure controls in place to monitor effectively track and manage to established plans
• Support team in staying knowledgeable on emerging issues engineering trends and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts to the Bank
• Proactively identify emerging technologies and innovative solutions for building more robust platform domains
• Contribute to the continuous enhancement of knowledge / expertise in own area and keep current with emerging industry trends new technologies and best practices in the external market that can contribute to delivering effective customer solutions.
• May interact with governance and control groups (e.g. regulatory and operational risk compliance and audit) to provide subject matter expertise and consult on risk issues / items relating to Engineering technology and tools
• Lead teams to deliver solutions in assigned functional area meet SLAs Interface with IT finance audit business unit management and other areas of TD to ensure integrated processes efficient introduction of new technologies retirement of obsolete technologies and support for businessled initiatives requiring the capabilities of the Engineering function

EMPLOYEE / TEAM

• Cultivate and model the Colleague Promise to support colleague growth and a culture of care; make an impact at work and in our communities by leading with authenticity and supporting well being to represent TDs brand
• Connect the alignment of colleagues contributions with the TD Shared Commitments
• Build and retain an engaged and diverse team that embraces diversity of thought creativity and curiosity; where every colleague and customer are valued respected and listened to; committed to a common goal and collaborate to move with speed and get things done
• Demonstrate inclusive leadership by taking meaningful action with intention to support colleagues and customers across all dimensions of diversity including those from underrepresented communities being actively antiracist attracting and retaining diverse slate of candidates nurturing mutual respect inclusivity of thought and collaboration to drive successful results
• Sustain identify strong talent recruit and develop a diverse talent pipeline of qualified workforce to innovate and maximize individual strengths to lead to a better business outcome
• Enable colleague growth by encouraging colleague development to achieve career and business objectives; ensuring timely feedback motivating appreciation and recognition to all colleagues
• Enable a continuous learning culture by proactively seeking listening to and actioning feedback from peers and from colleague listening opportunities to continuously improve the colleague experience and grow your personal leadership
• Foster an environment that promotes sharing of knowledge information skills and subject matter expertise among the team; ensure timely management and escalation of issues and create opportunities to collaborate with other functions and teams
• Lead your team through change and create an environment where teams feel psychologically safe to challenge current practices by modeling resiliency and flexibility communicating a compelling vision with clarity and empowering colleagues to drive innovation
• Contributes to the development of business segment and/or enterprise functional strategic priorities within their operational area or field of specialty that drive results
• Develops annual and/or longterm plans for own area that are aligned with enterprisewide priorities reinforcing a focus on results that align to One TD
• Foster a highperformance culture by setting team targets and objectives promoting and facilitating ongoing feedback/coaching and conducting Quarterly CheckIns for all colleagues to drive accountability and business results
• Manage employees in compliance with all human resources policies procedures and guidelines of conduct

BREADTH & DEPTH:

• Deep expertise and knowledge of specific domain or broad range of engineering frameworks technology tools processes and procedures as well as broader organization issues
• Advanced and highly specialized knowledge of TD applications systems networks innovation design activities best practices business / organization Bank standards and may fulfill a governance role
• Expert technical skills and a strong understanding of the teams product; spends about half their time on technical issues
• Provide people management leadership by hiring the best talent setting goals developing staff managing employee performance and compensation decisions promoting teamwork and handling any/all disciplinary actions as required
• Participates in the development of business strategies
• Possesses expert understanding of the technology and issues
• Ensures solutions are consistent with organizational objectives
• Utilize subject matter expertise to introduce new technologies or new versions of existing technologies into the organization
• Generally reports to an executive

EXPERIENCE AND / OR EDUCATION

• University or postgraduate degree
• Strong academic background (e.g. computer science engineering)
• 10 years relevant 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 6500 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 industryleading 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 highlydiverse equity research franchise while growing our strong diversified investment bank. We are growthoriented peoplefocused and communityminded. As a team we work to deliver value for our clients every day.

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 wellbeing goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary variable compensation and several other key plans such as health and wellbeing benefits savings and retirement programs paid time off banking benefits and discounts career development and reward and recognition programs. Learn more

Additional Information:
Were delighted that youre considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations training programs and a competitive benefits plan were 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 youre interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills we want to help you succeed. Youll 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. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues there are many different career paths within our organization at TD and were committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.

Training & Onboarding
We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that youve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Interview Process
Well 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 youd 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):