Full-Stack Architect

TD•Toronto, ON

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Design, describe, and manage solution engineering through the end-to-end lifecycle (i.e., frontend, backend, database and debugging of applications or sites). Use knowledge of business acumen and technical expertise to play a lead role in shaping the technical vision to create complex distributed solutions, technical designs, and integrations. The Business Central U.S. (BCUS) team builds and operates TD’s digital channel portal for U.S. Commercial Banking clients. We are responsible for delivering secure, scalable, and resilient capabilities that power critical customer journeys across onboarding, payments, liquidity, servicing, and self‑service experiences. BCUS is a full‑stack, product‑aligned engineering organization focused on platform modernization, reliability, and time‑to‑market. Our teams work end‑to‑end—from customer‑facing web experiences and APIs, through event‑driven and microservice architectures, to cloud infrastructure, security, and operational automation. We partner closely with business, product, design, risk, and operations to deliver resilient, compliant solutions that balance innovation with enterprise‑grade controls. Architects on BCUS play a hands‑on technical leadership role, shaping technical strategy, guiding teams, and ensuring architectures are scalable, resilient, and aligned to TD’s long‑term digital platform vision.

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

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
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 teams 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
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