Full Stack Architect

TD•Toronto, ON

8d•CA$115,600 - CA$163,200•Onsite

About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

Undergraduate degree or Technical Certificate (Graduate degree preferred)
10+ years relevant experience developing a variety of platforms
Demonstrated experience with leading technical tools integration in a complex environment
Demonstrated depth and breadth in modern architecture practices, including public cloud, AKS/Kubernetes, microservices, UI frameworks, event-driven and streaming architectures, caching technologies, and relational and NoSQL databases.
Demonstrated expertise in Domain-Driven Design, including domain decomposition, bounded contexts, business capability modeling, and the design of scalable APIs, events, and reusable domain services.
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.
The successful candidate will bring both breadth across the end-to-end customer journey and depth in customer onboarding, customer management, and advice architectures, with the ability to shape enterprise-wide solutions that support Shopping & Buying and Branch Advice experiences across digital and assisted channels.

Nice To Haves

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)
Familiarity with Salesforce architecture, data model, integration patterns, and customer engagement capabilities is desirable.

Responsibilities

Join a high-impact architecture team shaping the future of customer engagement across onboarding, customer management, and advice.
Design and deliver scalable, compliant, and customer-centric solutions that power end-to-end onboarding journeys, enable a unified customer view, and support both digital and advisor-led advice experiences.
With a strong focus on customer and colleague experience, you will help modernize how customers discover, apply for, and manage products across channels, while equipping branch advisors with integrated tools and insights.
Drive headless API-first, event-driven architectures, ensuring seamless integration across systems and channels while meeting regulatory and data governance requirements.
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.
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.
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.