Full Stack Architect

TD•Toronto, ON

2d•CA$165,000 - CA$200,000•Onsite

About The Position

Building a World-Class, Diverse and Inclusive Technology Team at TD. 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 As we look ahead to 2026, we anticipate an increased workload driven by the migration of our payments data store to Mongo Atlas, the acceleration of the Sanctions program and the VCP initiative. To ensure we have the necessary capacity to support these critical initiatives and meet our architecture objectives, we need to expand our payments architecture team. The new architect will primarily support the payments data domain, allowing the current team to properly support other critical domains such as the sanctions program, bulk payments, payments shared services and AMCB ACH initiatives. Meaningful work is fueled by meaningful performance and career development conversations with your manager.

Requirements

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
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

Nice To Haves

Understanding of public cloud ecosystems is an asset, primarily Azure.
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)

Responsibilities

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

Benefits

discretionary variable compensation award
Growth opportunities and skill development
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.
base salary
variable compensation
health and well-being benefits
savings and retirement programs
paid time off
banking benefits and discounts
career development
reward and recognition programs
regular development conversations
training programs
competitive benefits plan
online learning platform
variety of mentoring programs