Senior Manager, Engineering

TD; Canada; On-site; CAD 136,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic leader to guide a talented engineering team in delivering innovative technology solutions. This role involves mentoring engineers, overseeing project execution, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise and a strong understanding of regulatory requirements, while fostering a culture of continuous learning and development. Join a forward-thinking organization that values diversity and invests in the growth of its employees, offering a comprehensive rewards package to support your well-being and career aspirations.

Benefits

Competitive Benefits Plan

Training and Development Programs

Flexible Work Hours

Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience in engineering and technology management.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft technologies and software engineering principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor engineering teams to deliver innovative solutions.
• Oversee project milestones and ensure alignment with business needs.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Technical Skills Development

Resource Management

Software Engineering

Stakeholder Engagement

Problem Solving

Project Management

Education

University or Post-Graduate Degree

Strong Academic Background in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

.Net

MS SQL

Azure

DevOps Tools

Middleware Stacks

Job description

Work Location:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:
37.5

Line of Business:
Technology Solutions

Pay Details:
$136,000 - $183,500 CAD

The pay details posted reflect a temporary market premium specific to this role that is reassessed annually.

Job Description:

Job Description Summary:

Accountable for building, maintaining and evolving the culture and community of Engineers and is responsible for coaching on knowledge, skills and performance, building and evolving their capabilities, and advising engineers on their work to ensure solutions meet business needs and aligned with technology strategies and emerging industry standards; this includes planning, evaluating, recommending, designing, operationalizing, and supporting solutions in compliance with enterprise and industry standards.

Job responsibilities include:

• Lead the engineering team to support regulatory reporting systems.
• Mentor and develop team members with technical skills, lead by example.
• Oversee solution design, development, and implementation plan within the group.
• BMT assessments.

CUSTOMER

• 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 ensure ongoing performance feedback and assessments occur and development plans exist for each team member.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

EMPLOYEE / TEAM

• Cultivate and model the Colleague Promise to support colleague growth, and a culture of care.
• 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.
• Demonstrate inclusive leadership by taking meaningful action with intention to support colleagues and customers across all dimensions of diversity.
• Sustain, identify strong talent, recruit and develop a diverse talent pipeline of qualified workforce to innovate and maximize individual strengths.
• Enable colleague growth by encouraging colleague development to achieve career and business objectives.
• Enable a continuous learning culture by proactively seeking, listening to and actioning feedback from peers.
• Foster an environment that promotes sharing of knowledge, information, skills, and subject matter expertise among the team.
• Lead your team through change and create an environment where teams feel psychologically safe to challenge current practices.
• Contribute to the development of business segment and/or enterprise functional strategic priorities within their operational area.
• Develop annual and/or long-term plans for own area that are aligned with enterprise-wide priorities.
• Foster a high-performance culture by setting team targets and objectives.
• Manage employees in compliance with all human resources policies, procedures and guidelines of conduct.

BREADTH & DEPTH:

• Deep expertise and knowledge of specific regulatory domains or broad range of engineering frameworks, technology, tools, processes and procedures.
• Advanced and highly specialized knowledge of TD applications, systems, networks, innovation, design activities, best practices, business/organization, Bank standards, and may fulfill a governance role.
• Expert technical skills and a strong understanding of the team's product; spends about half their time on technical issues.
• Provide people management leadership by hiring the best talent, setting goals, developing staff, managing employee performance and compensation decisions.
• Participates in the development of business strategies.
• Possesses expert understanding of the technology and issues.
• Ensures solutions are consistent with organizational objectives.
• Deep knowledge of Finance and Risk applications.
• Promote a culture of ongoing learning using various methodologies.
• Good understanding of DevOps, migrations and testing tools.
• Working knowledge of middleware stacks tools.
• Security and monitor tools.
• Familiar with compliance, governance, SOX, and other technology controls.
• Experience working with multiple internal and external partners including offshore.
• Utilize subject matter expertise to introduce new technologies, or new versions of existing technologies, into the organization.
• Generally reports to an executive.

EXPERIENCE AND / OR EDUCATION

• University or post-graduate degree.
• Strong academic background (e.g., computer science, engineering).
• 10+ years relevant experience.
• Microsoft based technology, including .Net and MS SQL, azure knowledge and TD Azure implementation experience.
• Experience with Non-retail source system data.
• End-to-end software Engineering mindset.
• Resource prioritization, offshore resource management experience.
• Source code control, fully understand the branching strategy to support the complex SQL database deployment.
• Software Solution design skills and complex software development plan execution.

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.

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.

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.

Colleague Development
If you're interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed.

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.

Accommodation
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