Principal Platform Engineer

TD•Toronto, ON

22h•CA$165,000 - CA$200,000•Onsite

About The Position

As a Principal Engineer within the Global Transaction Banking (GTB) program, you will bring together enterprise-scale technical leadership and hands-on engineering to build the next-generation GTB Platform. This is not a strategy-only role — you will be actively in the code: designing, prototyping, and validating core platform capabilities. You will leverage modern AI-assisted development tools as a core part of your engineering workflow, owning the platform's foundation, velocity, scalability, and resiliency — while driving higher quality and broader adoption of engineering best practices across teams. Your focus will extend to applying disruptive technologies — particularly real-time AI inferencing and decisioning in Platforms such as Azure/Kubernetes — to elevate platform readiness, accelerate business delivery, strengthen technical resilience, and reduce cost of ownership. Working in close partnership with technology executives, senior leaders, and engineers, you will play a central role in shaping the overall Platform Engineering and GTB technology strategy.

Requirements

10 years + of relevant platform, cloud, or infrastructure experience
Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience in production environments
Containerization expertise using Docker and related technologies
Proven expertise in designing and delivering cloud solutions across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
Proven expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with hands-on experience using Terraform, Helm, and/or Ansible.
Service mesh, secrets management, or cloud-native platform experience
Experience mentoring a team of engineers and influence product and business stakeholders
Deep understanding of the full SDLC, including CI/CD, testing, version control, and release management
Experience creating architecture documentation, diagrams, runbooks, and standards
Strong understanding of cloud networking, IAM, security, storage, and compute services
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
Fluency in at least one programming language such as Java or Python
10+ years of relevant experience
Hands-on experience required for this role

Nice To Haves

Master's degree preferred
Cash Management/Transaction Banking experience

Responsibilities

Design, architect, and optimize Kubernetes-based platforms across cloud environments
Build, harden, and prototype containerized application solutions
Leveraging cutting edge technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, Gitlab, Prometheus, etc. to design and build new infrastructure features
Document end-to-end SDLC processes, deployment workflows, and platform standards
Conduct technical assessments, architecture reviews, and proof-of-concept initiatives
Develop architecture diagrams, runbooks, implementation guides, and technical standards
Collaborate with engineering, security, compliance, and operations teams
Present technical findings and recommendations to both technical and executive audiences
Improve CI/CD pipelines with a focus on reliability, security, and compliance
Support monitoring, observability, and signal management initiatives
Establish the best platform practices across cloud-native environments
Role requires 50% hands on Platform development, 30% Architecture and 20% Product/Executive presentations to showcase the problems/work