Director – Tds

Director – Tds

Requirements

• University or post-graduate degree
• Strong academic background (e.g., computer science, engineering)
• 10+ years relevant experience

Responsibilities

• 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 ensures on-going 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
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.