**Work Location:**Toronto, Ontario, Canada**Hours:**37.5**Line of Business:**Technology Solutions**Pay Details:**$149,500 - $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:****Key Accountabilities****Customer / Delivery*** Lead a distributed engineering organization delivering **APIs and message-driven services**, ensuring consistent execution across design, build, test, and deployment.* Own the creation of **solution options** and guide the team toward a comprehensive **end-to-end design**, coordinating stakeholders across product, architecture, and platform functions.* Promote a strong engineering mindset grounded in iterative learning (e.G., “build it, break it, fix it”), ensuring quality is designed-in and validated early.* Ensure delivered solutions meet defined requirements for **performance, availability, resiliency, security, and enterprise architecture alignment**.* Establish and evolve engineering best practices for **API lifecycle management**, **event-driven integration**, and test automation.**Engineering Excellence / Shareholder*** Execute on engineering strategy related to **tooling adoption and automation** for build/test/release/configuration pipelines.* Drive governance and technical review rigor including **solution design reviews, code reviews, operational readiness reviews, and deployment gating**.* Define engineering metrics and performance goals (e.G., quality, throughput, stability, reliability) and use them to drive continuous improvement.* Ensure adherence to enterprise frameworks, policies, risk practices, and regulatory expectations in a large, regulated environment.**Operations (Large-Scale Production & Support)*** Ensure team accountability for **operational readiness** and **production stability**, including incident management practices, root-cause analysis,



and preventative remediation.* Partner with operations and platform teams to improve reliability and reduce operational toil through automation and improved observability.* Establish clear ownership for service health, including production issue triage and escalation paths.**People Leadership (Manager of ~25)*** Lead, coach, and develop a team of ~25 engineers, creating a culture of **accountability, learning, inclusion, and high performance**.* Provide career development, mentorship, and performance coaching; build succession and capability plans across the team.* Build strong cross-functional relationships and act as a trusted partner to stakeholders across business and technology.**Must-Have Qualifications*** **People management experience** leading software engineering teams at scale (team leadership, coaching, performance management, and delivery accountability), ideally in a distributed or matrixed environment.* Strong prior engineering background delivering **distributed applications** and service-based architectures, including:+ **Java**, **NodeJS** (or comparable up-to-date backend runtime)+ **Event streaming / messaging** such as **Kafka** (or equivalent)+ API development patterns (RESTful APIs, service contracts, integration patterns)* Demonstrated ability to lead teams through the full lifecycle: **design → code → test → deploy → operate**, including delivery governance and quality practices.* Experience driving **automation** across CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows (build/test/release/configuration).* Strong collaboration skills across Architecture, Platform, Security, and Operations teams, with the ability to communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly.**Nice to Have*** Experience building or using **Kafka-related tooling** for test automation, serialization, or integration validation (e.G., virtualized test clients / automated coverage improvements).* Experience in **regulated enterprise environments** with strong risk & control practices, operational readiness standards, and governance expectations.* Exposure to **core banking platforms** or large financial services ecosystems.* **Experience applying AI-enabled tooling and methodologies** to accelerate delivery of distributed applications—e.G., **API development**, **event-stream processing (Kafka)**, **contract/schema evolution**, **test automation**, **CI/CD optimization**, and **developer productivity** (code assistance, automated reviews,



documentation generation).* **Familiarity with AI-driven engineering and reliability patterns** in distributed systems, including **intelligent automation** (pipeline + release gating), **testing acceleration** (service virtualization, synthetic test data, regression selection), **code/security quality analysis** (static + dependency risk insights), and **service reliability optimization** (anomaly detection, incident triage assist, root-cause hypothesis generation across microservices and streams)**Experience / Education*** Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.* **7+ years** of progressive engineering experience in distributed systems and backend development, with **proven people leadership** experience.**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.**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#J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Senior Manager Engineering - Distributed Systems - C$149,500 - C$183,500 A Year (Toronto)
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