Senior Manager, Engineering AI / ML

TD•Toronto, ON

8d•CA$149,500 - CA$183,500•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Engineering AI/ML will lead the Treasury-wide AI/ML agenda, driving strategy, prioritization, and delivery of AI/ML solutions across Asset Liability Management (ALM), Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP), Liquidity, and Capital functions. This role will oversee the development of production-grade AI/ML models and systems, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, governance, and business objectives. The Senior Manager will collaborate with Treasury teams, the Enterprise AI/ML Center of Excellence (CoE), and external vendors to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Requirements

University or post-graduate degree
Strong academic background (e.g., computer science, engineering)
10+ years of experience in data science, AI/ML, and finance/treasury/risk, with 5+ years leading cross-functional teams.
Strong understanding of Treasury (e.g. ALM, FTP, liquidity, and capital management concepts), as well as risk engines.
Hands-on experience with Databricks (SQL/Spark/Delta, Unity Catalog), Azure (ADLS, AKS, ADF), and ML tooling (feature stores, model registry, monitoring).
Proven track record of delivering production-grade AI/ML solutions with measurable business impact.

Nice To Haves

Experience with scenario engines and compute at scale orchestration.
Familiarity with Treasury reporting, data lineage, and integration with downstream BI systems.
Knowledge of model risk governance in regulated financial institutions.

Responsibilities

Define and maintain the Treasury AI/ML strategy and roadmap, prioritizing use cases based on business impact and feasibility.
Establish and manage an intake and triage process for AI/ML initiatives, ensuring alignment with Treasury priorities.
Partner with business stakeholders to identify opportunities for AI/ML adoption and innovation.
Collaborate with teams and/or lead development and deployment of AI/ML models and systems, ensuring production readiness, scalability, and reliability.
Define and enforce MLOps standards, including CI/CD pipelines, feature management, testing, and monitoring.
Oversee cross-functional delivery teams to ensure timely execution of AI/ML initiatives.
Collaborate with business leads to define success metrics and track the impact of AI/ML solutions on Treasury processes.
Drive user adoption through training, playbooks, and dashboards, ensuring measurable improvements in efficiency and accuracy.
Quantify business outcomes such as cycle-time reduction, forecast accuracy, and cost savings.
Ensure compliance with enterprise AI principles, model risk governance policies, and regulatory requirements.
Maintain comprehensive documentation for model lineage, monitoring, and audit purposes.
Participate as leading member of Treasury AI Design Council to align AI/ML initiatives with enterprise governance standards.
Collaborate with external vendors to integrate AI/ML capabilities into Treasury systems.
Benchmark Treasury AI/ML practices against industry peers to refine strategies and operating models.
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, and ensures on-going performance feedback and assessments occur and development plans exist for each team member.
Engages 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 that may exist through additional learning, coaching, supports etc.
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 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 SLA’s, 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 colleague's contributions with the TD Shared Commitments
Build and retain an engaged and diverse team that embraces diversity of thought, creativity and curiosity; where every colleague and customer are 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
Sustain, identify strong talent, recruit 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 feedback, 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 your personal leadership
Foster an environment that promotes sharing of knowledge, information, skills, and subject matter expertise among the team; ensure timely management and escalation of issues and create opportunities to collaborate with other functions and teams
Lead your team through change and create an environment where teams feel psychologically safe to challenge current practices by modeling resiliency and flexibility, communicating a compelling vision with clarity and empowering colleagues to drive innovation
Contributes to the development of business segment and/or enterprise functional strategic priorities within their operational area or field of specialty that drive results
Develops annual and/or long-term plans for own area that are aligned with enterprise-wide priorities, reinforcing a focus on results that align to One TD
Foster a high-performance culture by setting team targets and objectives, promoting and facilitating on-going 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