Manager, Engineering (Java; Spring Boot; Hibernate)

TD•Toronto, ON

3d•Onsite

About The Position

This role is accountable for building, maintaining, and evolving the culture and community of Engineers. The Manager, Engineering is responsible for coaching on knowledge, skills, and performance, building and evolving their capabilities, and advising engineers on their work to ensure solutions meet business needs and are aligned with technology strategies and emerging industry standards. This includes planning, evaluating, recommending, designing, operationalizing, and supporting solutions in compliance with enterprise and industry standards.

Requirements

University or post-graduate degree
Strong academic background (e.g., computer science, engineering)
10+ years relevant experience in design and development with Java/Springboot/Hibernate
3+ years of People leadership and direct reports

Nice To Haves

FICO FAWB/PLOR knowledge

Responsibilities

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.
Ensure on-going performance feedback and assessments occur and development plans exist for each team member.
Engage team with Platform and Journey leads to ensure 2-way 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 through additional learning, coaching, and support.
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/self-serve Application, Platform, or Infrastructure releases.
Work with partners across Technology and apply in-depth 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.
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 are 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 business-led initiatives requiring the capabilities of the Engineering function.
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 TD's brand.
Connect the alignment of colleagues' contributions with the TD Shared Commitments.
Build and retain an engaged and diverse team where every colleague and customer is 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 anti-racist, attracting and retaining diverse slate of candidates, nurturing mutual respect, inclusivity of thought, and collaboration to drive successful results.
Recruit, identify strong talent, 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 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 personal leadership.
Model sharing of knowledge, information, skills, and subject matter expertise among the team; ensure timely management and escalation of issues, and lead collaboration with other functions and teams.
Lead team through change and create an environment where teams feel psychologically safe to challenge current practices by modeling resiliency and flexibility, providing direction on changing priorities, and empowering colleagues to drive innovation.
Enable a high-performance culture by setting team targets and objectives, facilitating on-going and proactive feedback/coaching, and conducting Quarterly Check-Ins for all colleagues to drive accountability and business results.
Manage employees in compliance with all human resources policies, procedures, and guidelines of conduct.