Product Group Tech Lead II – Workday Payroll and Integration Specialist

TD•Toronto, ON

1d•CA$149,500 - CA$183,500•Onsite

About The Position

Lead the development of technical solutions that support the TD's global payroll, benefits and compensation programs and adhere to enterprise architectural and technology delivery principles. Provides deep technical leadership and development experience in end to end execution of product team solutions. Partners with business, project management and technology groups to effectively communicate technology decisions and drive business results, ensuring alignment with the organization's Target Operating Model (TOM), technology roadmap and approach, and enterprise architecture/ technologies. Works collaboratively with relevant SaaS vendors to drive product consumption internally and vendor innovation. Customer Work closely with partners and stakeholders to ensure technical solutions meet technical direction, requirements, budget, scalability and architectural goals, ensuring all risks and impacts are considered. Leverage deep Workday technology expertise to support in the creation and delivery of end-to-end technical solutions and help to support driving business outcomes. Participate in business planning discussions and define the technology delivery approach, and leverage synergies across the various teams and applications. Act as lead expert to ensure compliance with enterprise and segment standards (e.g. TOM; enterprise assets). Monitor and manage incident escalation process; work with project managers and business partners as needed to efficiently and effectively resolve. Identify and implement opportunities to minimize and reduce costs in collaboration with TAO; identify appropriate solutions and support the deployment of innovative product and software solutions. Collaborate with partners and project teams on software quality assurance reviews. Drive and execute on target state and roadmap-based investments. Execute on strategic solution planning activities or POC. Work with partners across Technology and apply deep understanding of relevant business needs to identify and leverage synergies across the various areas and projects. Shareholder 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 in place to monitor, effectively track and manage to established plans. Maintain knowledge and understanding of external development, technology and emerging solutions, market conditions and their impact. Proactively identify emerging technologies and innovative solutions for building more robust platform domains. 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 technology and tools. Protect the interests of the organization – identify and manage risks, and escalate non-standard, high risk transactions / activities as necessary. 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; may take on the role of Chapter Lead as applicable. 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 quality engineering best practices. 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. Breadth & Depth Lead Technical solutions at the Product Group level. Deep expertise and knowledge of Workday Payroll, Compensation and Integrations as well as Varicent, including understanding of in-house and third-party architecture integration. Has demonstrated experience supporting Workday Prism and Extend use case implementations. Advanced and highly specialized knowledge of TD applications, systems, networks, innovation, design activities, best practices, business / organization, Bank standards, regulatory and compliance standards, and may fulfill a governance role. Provides leadership and guidance to several teams across the enterprise and solves cross-department issues. Participates in the development of business strategies. Ensures solutions are consistent with organizational objectives. Utilize subject matter expertise to introduce new technologies, or new versions of existing technologies, into the organization. Generally, reports to an executive.

Requirements

Undergraduate degree or Technical Certificate
10+ years of development and technology delivery experience
Agile Delivery Experience preferred
Workday technology expertise
Deep knowledge of Workday Payroll, Compensation and Integrations as well as Varicent
Demonstrated experience supporting Workday Prism and Extend use case implementations.
Advanced and highly specialized knowledge of TD applications, systems, networks, innovation, design activities, best practices, business / organization, Bank standards, regulatory and compliance standards, and may fulfill a governance role.

Nice To Haves

Graduate degree preferred

Responsibilities

Lead the development of technical solutions that support the TD's global payroll, benefits and compensation programs and adhere to enterprise architectural and technology delivery principles.
Provides deep technical leadership and development experience in end to end execution of product team solutions.
Partners with business, project management and technology groups to effectively communicate technology decisions and drive business results, ensuring alignment with the organization's Target Operating Model (TOM), technology roadmap and approach, and enterprise architecture/ technologies.
Works collaboratively with relevant SaaS vendors to drive product consumption internally and vendor innovation.
Work closely with partners and stakeholders to ensure technical solutions meet technical direction, requirements, budget, scalability and architectural goals, ensuring all risks and impacts are considered.
Leverage deep Workday technology expertise to support in the creation and delivery of end-to-end technical solutions and help to support driving business outcomes.
Participate in business planning discussions and define the technology delivery approach, and leverage synergies across the various teams and applications.
Act as lead expert to ensure compliance with enterprise and segment standards (e.g. TOM; enterprise assets).
Monitor and manage incident escalation process; work with project managers and business partners as needed to efficiently and effectively resolve.
Identify and implement opportunities to minimize and reduce costs in collaboration with TAO; identify appropriate solutions and support the deployment of innovative product and software solutions.
Collaborate with partners and project teams on software quality assurance reviews.
Drive and execute on target state and roadmap-based investments.
Execute on strategic solution planning activities or POC.
Work with partners across Technology and apply deep understanding of relevant business needs to identify and leverage synergies across the various areas and projects.
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 in place to monitor, effectively track and manage to established plans.
Maintain knowledge and understanding of external development, technology and emerging solutions, market conditions and their impact.
Proactively identify emerging technologies and innovative solutions for building more robust platform domains.
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 technology and tools.
Protect the interests of the organization – identify and manage risks, and escalate non-standard, high risk transactions / activities as necessary.
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; may take on the role of Chapter Lead as applicable.
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 quality engineering best practices.
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.
Lead Technical solutions at the Product Group level.
Provides leadership and guidance to several teams across the enterprise and solves cross-department issues.
Participates in the development of business strategies.
Ensures solutions are consistent with organizational objectives.
Utilize subject matter expertise to introduce new technologies, or new versions of existing technologies, into the organization.