software architect

TD Bank; Toronto; On-site; Full time

Job summary

A major financial institution in Toronto is seeking a Full Stack Architect to lead solution architecture within their General Insurance department. This role requires expertise in designing scalable and secure architectural solutions, collaborating with technology teams, and mentoring junior staff. The position emphasizes reliability and scalability, making it essential for enhancing digital capabilities within the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience with end-to-end solution architecture in large systems.
• Ability to mentor junior team members.
• Strong understanding of database and application layers.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop end-to-end architectural solutions.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure product requirements are met.
• Monitor and report on project progress.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Database Management

Software Development

Mentoring

Project Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Middleware Technologies

Cloud Infrastructure

Job description

Full Stack Architect (General Insurance)

Posted on October 18, 2025 by Employer TD Bank

Work Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours: 37.5

Line of Business: Technology Solutions

Pay Details: $108,800 - $163,200 CAD

Advertised until: 2025-11-16

Job Description:

DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW This Solutions Architect will be supporting our General Insurance business as part of the broader Solution Architecture Practice department. TD's General Insurance business is one of the top homes and auto insurance groups in Canada and the national leader in group insurance and affinity marketing. This is a senior independent contributor role that will create business-enabling architectural solutions primarily but not exclusively in the core Policy and Billing Center ecosystem in support of our digital capabilities evolution, collaborating closely with Platform technology teams/pods and business product owners/product groups.

The Architect will design the solution architecture end-to-end, follow enterprise architecture guidelines, work primarily within projects/products, contribute to strategic plans as needed, and lead project/product architecture blueprints at high and low level. The Architect will develop and maintain solutions and frameworks that are the most efficient, reliable, scalable, and secure to meet business needs and technology strategy; this includes planning, evaluating, recommending and designing architectural solutions in compliance with enterprise standards.

Customer Apply a multi-disciplined expertise with database, application, client tiers, layering of software, build, test and deploy strategies to create the overall design of software (including applications, infrastructure, middleware) and guide how the sub-components are developed by different teams. Elevate focus on applications and data as differentiators for the customer experience, anchored in sound foundational elements of Infrastructure and Platforms. Advise on suitability of technology stacks to define principles / key constraints for solution components; rally the team around these principles to determine security / scalability approach, and impact assessments for future design. Monitor and report on progress and collaborate broadly with other practitioners, including designers, engineers, and other applicable business stakeholders to ensure the necessary features for the products and applications are developed within assigned portfolio.

Design tests that will be implemented to keep the software functional; supports issue analysis and fix activities during test phases, as well as production issue resolution. Collaborate with Practices, actively driving capability creation; mentoring and training junior colleagues to be adaptive, staying on top of expanding technologies and engineering trends and creating highly visual and functional solutions.

SHAREHOLDER Set service‑level objectives (SLO) and exercise key decision rights of the FSA role. Focus on reliability, scalability, and the development of the architectural infrastructure; including highly complex and scalable systems. Develop observability standards to ensure that production systems operate under known conditions and transparently provides these measurements to anticipate when errors or failures can arise. Lead interaction with governance and control groups, (e.g. regulatory / operational risk, compliance and audit) to provide subject matter expertise.

Job Details:

• Location Toronto, ON
• Work location On site
• Salary $33.46 to $84.62 HOUR hourly
• Terms of employment Permanent employment Full time
• Starts as soon as possible
• vacancies 1 vacancy
• Source CareerBeacon #2181121