Solution Architect III

Work Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:

37.5

Line of Business:

Technology Solutions

Pay Details:

$96,900 - $136,800 CADThis role is temporarily eligible for a pay premium above the posted salary range that is reassessed annually. You are encouraged to have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide more specific pay details for this role.

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:

Department Overview

TD IT Architecture covers TD’s overall technology strategy, direction and standards for designing and developing architecture frameworks. This includes technology architecture strategies, policies, guiding principles and standards that govern how technology solutions are developed and implemented across the organization.

Our architects develop and maintain solution and application architecture, infrastructure environment architecture, technical integration architecture, data strategies and models, security architecture and enterprise architecture.

There’s room to grow in all of it.

Job Accountabilities: What You’ll Do

Join a high-impact architecture team shaping the future of customer engagement across onboarding, customer management and advice. You will design and deliver scalable, compliant and customer-centric solutions that power end-to-end onboarding journeys, enable a unified customer view, and support digital and advisor-led advice experiences.

With a strong focus on customer and colleague experience, you will help modernize how customers discover, apply for and manage products across channels, while equipping branch advisors with integrated tools and insights. You will support headless, API-first and event-driven architectures that enable seamless integration across systems and channels while meeting regulatory and data governance requirements.

Solution Architecture and Design

• Design end-to-end solution architectures and develop architecture frameworks, strategies, policies, guiding principles, patterns and standards that govern how technology solutions are developed and implemented.
• Develop and maintain efficient, reliable, scalable and secure architectural solutions that align with business needs, technology strategy and enterprise standards.
• Analyze business requirements, map relevant processes and subprocesses, and recommend practical technology solutions that bridge business problems and technology capabilities.
• Apply multidisciplinary expertise across databases, applications, client tiers, software layering, infrastructure, middleware, and build, test and deployment strategies to create the overall software design and guide development across teams.
• Strengthen the use of applications and data as differentiators for the customer experience, supported by resilient infrastructure and platform foundations.
• Advise on the suitability of technology stacks and establish design principles and key constraints for solution components, including security, scalability and future-design impact assessments.
• Review detailed solution architectures and designs to confirm they meet business requirements and comply with architectural, security and development standards, patterns and frameworks.
• Provide architectural sign-off on detailed designs within the role’s assigned decision rights.
• Develop project blueprints and design specifications, and contribute architectural input to project plans, system requirements, scope and cost estimates.
• Design highly complex and scalable systems with a focus on reliability, architectural infrastructure and long-term resiliency.
• Set service-level objectives and develop observability standards so production systems operate under known conditions and provide transparent measurements that help identify potential errors or failures.
• Support the design of tests that keep software functional and contribute to issue analysis and resolution during testing and production.
• Conduct pre- and post-implementation reviews to confirm technical solutions meet business requirements.

Technology Delivery and Engineering Practices

• Assess practical program concerns and identify opportunities to upgrade technologies and platforms, reduce technology debt, and build resilient server-side and user-side capabilities.
• Lead code reviews and the creation and testing of prototypes to assess the viability of proposed approaches.
• Use configuration management, version control, integration and build-automation tools to support code deployment, provide proof points for development teams, and recommend integration fixes and improvements.
• Keep track of code changes through appropriate control systems.
• Support engineering practices such as continuous integration, continuous delivery, automated testing, pair programming and test-driven development, where applicable.
• Identify continuous improvement and automation opportunities across development, testing and delivery activities.
• Anticipate architectural issues and gaps, assess emerging industry trends, and recommend value-added improvements that reduce technology debt and strengthen solution resiliency

Governance, Risk and Compliance

• Ensure projects comply with technology domain architecture, security requirements, development standards and established delivery practices.
• Design and operate processes that provide ongoing review of in-progress activities against architecture and development standards.
• Lead interactions with governance and control groups, including regulatory and operational risk, compliance and audit, to provide subject-matter expertise and consultation on risks associated with architecture, technology and tools.
• Contribute to cross-functional and enterprise initiatives as an architecture or subject-matter expert, helping identify risks and provide guidance for significant and complex situations.
• Protect and enhance the security and availability of technology, brand integrity and shareholder value by establishing appropriate technology parameters and providing technical risk analysis and assessment.
• Ensure assigned programs, policies and practices are well managed, meet business needs, comply with internal and external requirements, and align with business priorities.
• Identify and manage risks, escalating non-standard or high-risk activities when necessary.
• Stay current on emerging issues, industry trends and evolving regulatory requirements, and assess their potential impacts.
• Maintain a culture of risk management and control supported by effective processes aligned with TD’s risk appetite.
• Identify enhancements and gaps in architectural frameworks, standards and patterns for consideration in future versions.
• Contribute to the processes through which technology-standard decisions are made

Collaboration and Delivery

• Communicate effectively with business and technology partners to understand business needs, recommend practical solutions and advance the long-term architecture vision.
• Monitor and report on the progress and status of products, projects and applications within the assigned portfolio.
• Direct assigned resources as required, communicate project status and escalate issues in a timely manner.
• Collaborate broadly with designers, engineers, architecture practices, platforms, journeys and business stakeholders to ensure required product and application capabilities are developed.
• Work across teams with diverse and complementary skills, helping colleagues respond to change and advance their collective knowledge of architecture, technical tools and emerging trends.
• Build productive working relationships with internal and external business partners and stakeholders.
• Provide timely communication about project progress, issues and information relevant to day-to-day activities.
• Participate fully as a team member and support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork.
• Work collaboratively with team members and leadership to proactively identify and resolve product-quality issues.

Architecture Leadership and Knowledge Development

• Provide expert architectural consultation and subject-matter expertise on moderately to highly complex and high-risk initiatives.
• Act as an expert resource for exchanging architectural information with project teams, business partners and external vendors.
• Collaborate with architecture and engineering practices to support capability development across the organization.
• Share knowledge, experience and architecture and engineering best practices to build team skills and capabilities.
• Mentor and train junior colleagues, helping them adapt to expanding technologies, engineering trends and evolving architecture practices.
• Provide thought leadership and industry knowledge and participate in knowledge transfer across the team and business unit.
• Maintain current knowledge of emerging technologies, industry developments, relevant business areas, tools and techniques.
• Participate in personal performance and development activities, including cross-training within the team.
• Support a fair, positive and inclusive environment that values a diverse workforce.
• Act as a brand ambassador for the business area and TD, internally and externally

Where You’ll Work

You’ll be expected to work primarily onsite at a TD location for meetings, team events and experiences. The hiring manager will provide more information about how this works for their team.

Job Requirements: What You Need to Succeed

• Undergraduate degree or technical certificate; graduate degree preferred.
• 7+ years of relevant experience, including experience developing or supporting a variety of technology platforms.
• Expert knowledge of architecture within the relevant technology domain, including applicable tools, processes and procedures.
• Advanced knowledge of applications, programming languages, industry best practices, infrastructure, architecture and enterprise technology standards.
• Demonstrated breadth and depth in modern architecture practices, including:
  • Public cloud
  • Azure Kubernetes Service or Kubernetes
  • Microservices
  • User-interface frameworks
  • Event-driven and streaming architectures
  • Caching technologies
  • Relational and NoSQL databases
• Demonstrated expertise in Domain-Driven Design, including:
  • Domain decomposition
  • Bounded contexts
  • Business-capability modelling
  • Scalable APIs and events
  • Reusable domain services
• Experience developing API-first, headless and event-driven architectures.
• Demonstrated experience leading the integration of technical tools within a complex environment.
• Experience with continuous integration, continuous delivery, pair programming or test-driven development is an asset, including the ability to author unit, integration and functional tests.
• Strong communication, collaboration and client-facing skills, with the ability to understand business needs and recommend practical architecture and technology solutions.
• Strong business acumen and specialized technical knowledge, with the ability to anticipate architectural gaps and identify emerging trends.
• Ability to work autonomously on complex, highly visible or high-risk technology projects and initiatives.
• Ability to manage or direct architecture analysis and design activities for larger and more complex projects.
• Experience creating scalable, secure and resilient solutions that comply with enterprise architecture, development and security standards.
• Familiarity with Salesforce architecture, data models, integration patterns and customer-engagement capabilities is desirable.
• Breadth across the end-to-end customer journey and depth in customer onboarding, customer management and advice architecture.
• Ability to shape enterprise solutions that support shopping and buying experiences and branch advice across digital and assisted channels.

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 strive to make every interaction, product, and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple for 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 foster deeper relationships, ensure disciplined execution, and build a simpler, faster banking experience. TD is deeply committed to being a leader in client experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are client facing. Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.

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.

If you’re passionate about helping clients and building deep, lasting relationships, TD offers diverse career paths where you can grow your expertise and make a meaningful impact.

We're committed to your success and foster a respectful workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, everyone has fair opportunities to grow, and you can unlock your full potential to achieve your career goals. Here at TD, we hire and develop the best.

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):

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