Director - Surveillance Data & Ecosystem Monitoring

TD Bank • New York, NY

20h • $200,000 - $235,000

About The Position

The Director of Compliance Technology – Surveillance Data is a senior technology leadership role responsible for ensuring the quality, completeness, lineage, and availability of data used for transaction surveillance across asset classes. This role will lead data re‑piping and remediation initiatives, identify and close data gaps that materially impact surveillance efficacy, and design instrumentation and metrics that enable proactive monitoring of the end‑to-end surveillance ecosystem. As a key leader within a multi‑year, regulator‑driven remediation program, the Director will partner closely with Compliance, Front Office Technology, and the Central Data Office (CDO) to deliver sustainable, defensible data controls that meet evolving regulatory expectations.
The Director - Tech Solutions TDS Management builds and maintains strong business relationship with assigned clients / internal partners and provides direction and guidance on optimal technology solutions/services to meet business needs. The position generally manages a varied team of IT professionals and bridges the gap between the business and technology, and leverages resources across functional or specialized technology areas to ensure end to end delivery of agreed upon solutions or services within planned forecasts / cost estimates. Role generally supports a significant Business area, Product Group, Enterprise Platform, Service or Capability within a Segment CIO or Functional area.

Requirements

• 15+ years of technology leadership experience within financial services, with deep exposure to trade surveillance, transaction monitoring, or compliance platforms.
• Proven experience leading large‑scale data remediation or re‑platforming initiatives in partnership with Front Office and central data organizations.
• Strong understanding of trade lifecycle data, data quality management, reconciliations, and lineage in support of regulatory controls.
• Demonstrated ability to design metrics, dashboards, and control frameworks that support proactive risk management and regulatory oversight.
• Experience operating in regulatory‑driven programs with high expectations for auditability, traceability, and sustainability.
• Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex data and technology risks for senior stakeholders and regulators.
• Undergraduate degree or Technical Certificate.
• 10+ years related experience.
• Expert knowledge of the business and bank technology standards (e.g., infrastructure, architecture, processes, applications) from a strategic perspective and managing/ directing teams and projects.
• Sound knowledge of external competition, emerging, industry and/or market trends in relation to own business.
• Understands strategic direction (including financials) and champions' alliances to benefit the Bank and/or department; advocates for operational improvements to enhance the divisions value to the organization.

Nice To Haves

• Graduate degree, preferred.

Responsibilities

• Surveillance Data Strategy & Remediation Define and execute the surveillance data strategy, ensuring critical trade, order, and lifecycle data is complete, accurate, traceable, and timely for all surveillance use cases.
• Identify data gaps and quality issues that impair alert generation, scenario coverage, or investigative workflows, and prioritize remediation based on regulatory and risk impact.
• Drive root‑cause remediation of data issues through coordinated delivery with Front Office Technology, Market Data, and Central Data Office teams rather than tactical workarounds.
• Lead data re‑piping initiatives to onboard authoritative sources, modernize data flows, and retire legacy or non‑compliant feeds.
• Ecosystem Instrumentation & Proactive Monitoring Design and implement instrumentation, controls, and metrics that provide transparency into the health of the trade surveillance ecosystem, including ingestion completeness, timeliness, reconciliation breaks, and downstream impact.
• Establish leading indicators and KRIs that enable proactive detection of data degradation before it impacts surveillance coverage or regulatory obligations.
• Ensure metrics are available for executive reporting, regulatory engagement, and audit defensibility.
• Regulatory Remediation Leadership Act as a senior technology lead for regulatory commitments and remediation milestones, ensuring data‑related deliverables are met with sustainable solutions.
• Partner with Compliance and Regulatory Strategy teams to translate regulatory findings into concrete data and technology outcomes.
• Ensure surveillance data solutions are aligned with enterprise standards for data governance, lineage, controls, and SDLC discipline.
• Stakeholder & Delivery Leadership Serve as a strategic partner to Compliance Surveillance leadership, Front Office stakeholders, and Enterprise Data organizations.
• Lead and mentor a team of technologists, data engineers, and analysts responsible for surveillance data delivery and controls.
• Coordinate across multiple delivery workstreams to ensure consistent implementation of data quality, validation, and monitoring frameworks.

Benefits

• Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical and mental well-being goals.
• Total Rewards at TD includes base salary and variable compensation/incentive awards (e.g., eligibility for cash and/or equity incentive awards, generally through participation in an incentive plan) and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off (including Vacation PTO, Flex PTO, and Holiday PTO), banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees