Senior Manager, Engineering - AI (B3617)

Work Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:

37.5

Line of Business:

Technology Solutions

Pay Details:

$136,000 - $183,500 CADThe pay details posted reflect a temporary market premium specific to this role that is reassessed annually.

TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.

As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.

Job Description:

The TD AI Platform team focuses on building & delivering secure, stable and scalable AI capabilities & solutions that are enterprise ready to serve our customers and colleagues. We are currently seeking a Senior Manager, Engineering to build & lead a team focused on delivering AI solutions for business across the enterprise.

Who You Are

You are passionate about the transformational potential of AI and thrive in a fast-paced, high-impact environment where strategy meets execution. As a Senior Manager, Engineering, you'll play a pivotal role in solutioning and delivering GenAI and Agentic solutions & capabilities that unlock value across the organization. You'll work at the intersection of emerging tech, scalable platforms, and real-world business problems—partnering with teams across the enterprise to prioritize, plan, and deliver use cases that truly make a difference.

What You'll Do

• Lead a high-performing team of technology professionals focused on delivering parallel GenAI & Agentic use cases for one or two enterprise segments (e.g. Wealth, Business Banking, TD Securities, etc.), ensuring scalable and secure implementation
• Lead the development of high-level solution designs for GenAI and Agentic use cases, leveraging, optimizing or building platform capabilities, to enable scale and efficiency.
• Engage with cross-functional teams – from business and product owners to data scientists, enterprise architects and developers – to understand use case needs and align on solution.
• Drive the successful execution across multiple initiatives & pods (3-5), in parallel, managing technology delivery timelines, risks, and interdependencies with confidence.
• Serve as a trusted technology partner, helping internal stakeholders navigate AI opportunities and challenges.
• Collaborate with the AI Platform capability team to continuously enhance our AI platform's capabilities and accelerate use case delivery.
• Build, mentor and inspire a talented team of system analysts, software engineers and data engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, agility, and continuous learning. This would be reflected in your annual TD Pulse scores (employee survey) scores.
• Achieve strong operational reliability across delivered solutions (per defined enterprise scorecard).
• Improve engineering productivity through standardized patterns, automation, and tooling adoption.

CUSTOMER

• Execute introducing engineering tools, methodologies and processes across the enterprise
• Accountability to understand the current skills and capabilities, 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
• 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

What You Bring

• University or post-graduate degree
• Strong academic background (e.g., computer science, engineering)
• 10+ years relevant experience
• Proven experience delivering complex technology initiatives in an enterprise environment across multiple workstreams.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and communication skills—able to translate between technical and business audiences with ease.
• Strong team leadership and collaboration abilities; you inspire trust, empower others, and deliver results.
• A proactive mindset with a bias for action, problem-solving, and continuous improvement.
• 5-7 years of proven experience in senior leadership roles of data engineering or software engineering.
• Strong understanding of data platform architectures, data modeling, ETL processes, and data pipeline design.
• Strong understanding of designing and implementing distributed software applications.
• Experience with designing and implementing large-scaled data processing pipelines.
• Experience with cloud platforms e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure (preferred) and big data technologies.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Spark, Java, SQL or Scala.
• Understanding of AI/ML platforms, with bonus points for exposure to GenAI & Agentic technologies (e.g. LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, MCP, etc.).

Who We Are:

TD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Every day, we deliver legendary customer experiences to over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world. More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to the Bank, those we serve, and the economies we support. We are guided by our vision to Be the Better Bank and our purpose to enrich the lives of our customers, communities and colleagues.

TD is deeply committed to being a leader in customer experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are customer facing. As we build our business and deliver on our strategy, we are innovating to enhance the customer experience and build capabilities to shape the future of banking. Whether you've got years of banking experience or are just starting your career in financial services, we can help you realize your potential. Through regular leadership and development conversations to mentorship and training programs, we're here to support you towards your goals. As an organization, we keep growing – and so will you.

Our Total Rewards Package
Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical, and mental well-being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary, variable compensation, and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs. Learn more

Additional Information:
We're delighted that you're considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we're committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.

Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.

Colleague Development
If you're interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You'll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience, or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues, there are many different career paths within our organization at TD – and we're committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.

Training & Onboarding
We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you've got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Interview Process
We'll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.

Accommodation
Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if you'd like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.
We look forward to hearing from you!

Language Requirement (Quebec only):

Sans Objet