Senior Manager, Platform Engineering – Analytics
Top Benefits
About the role
Work Location:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hours:
37.5
Line of Business:
Technology Solutions
Pay Details:
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:
TD Bank is seeking an experienced Senior Manager to lead our Analytics Platform Engineering team to drive the transformation of our data and analytics infrastructure platforms on Azure and Google. This leadership role will be to manage a team of 7-12 cloud platform engineers responsible for designing, building and maintaining critical analytics services including Azure Databricks, Unity Catalog, Azure Synapse, Microsoft Fabric and Google BigQuery. The role reports to the AVP of AI, ML & Analytics product group. You will champion a platform-as-a-product approach, ensuring our data analytics platform enables business innovation while maintaining the highest standards of security, compliance, and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of 7-12 senior platform engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Drive technical strategy and architecture decisions for Azure Databricks, Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse, Azure Fabric.
- Oversee the development and maintenance of infrastructure as code pipelines leveraging Terraform and Git Actions to automate platform service delivery.
- Balance hands-on technical contribution (40%) with people leadership responsibilities (60%), maintaining technical credibility while developing team capabilities
- Establish and enforce engineering best practices including code quality standards, security protocols, and regulatory compliance requirements
- Manage team performance including goal setting, performance reviews, career development planning, and succession planning
- Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to define technical roadmaps, prioritize initiatives, and deliver platform capabilities
- Lead incident response and problem resolution for critical platform issues, ensuring high availability and reliability
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives including platform optimization, cost reduction, and operational efficiency
- Partner with Risk, Compliance, and Security teams to ensure platform adherence to regulatory and security standards
- Scale the engineering team through strategic hiring, onboarding, and knowledge transfer processes
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; Master’s degree preferred
- Minimum 10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3+ years managing a platform engineering or software engineering team
- 5+ years of experience in financial services with deep understanding of banking technology, security and regulatory requirements
- Ability to manage multiple projects and competing deadlines in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Experience with large scale data platform implementations leveraging Azure Databricks, Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse, Azure Fabric
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, service hardening, and data governance.
- Lead with influence, build relationships, and collaborate effectively with a broad range of stakeholders. Excellent communication skills with ability to interact both with technical teams, business stakeholders and executive teams.
What We Offer
This role offers the opportunity to lead a world-class engineering team building cutting-edge Analytics platform at scale. You’ll have significant influence on technical strategy, access to premier technologies, and the resources to build and grow a high-performing engineering organization.
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. 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. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience, or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues, there are many different career paths within our organization at TD – and we’re committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.
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):
Sans Objet
About TD
The Toronto-Dominion Bank & its subsidiaries are collectively known as TD Bank Group (TD). TD is the sixth largest bank in North America by branches & serves approximately 22 million customers in a number of locations in key financial centres around the globe. Over 85,000 TD employees represent the strongest team in banking. Delivering legendary customer experiences is who we are & is part of being the Better Bank. Visit our Careers page to learn more about TD and why TD is a great place to work.
Senior Manager, Platform Engineering – Analytics
Top Benefits
About the role
Work Location:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hours:
37.5
Line of Business:
Technology Solutions
Pay Details:
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:
TD Bank is seeking an experienced Senior Manager to lead our Analytics Platform Engineering team to drive the transformation of our data and analytics infrastructure platforms on Azure and Google. This leadership role will be to manage a team of 7-12 cloud platform engineers responsible for designing, building and maintaining critical analytics services including Azure Databricks, Unity Catalog, Azure Synapse, Microsoft Fabric and Google BigQuery. The role reports to the AVP of AI, ML & Analytics product group. You will champion a platform-as-a-product approach, ensuring our data analytics platform enables business innovation while maintaining the highest standards of security, compliance, and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of 7-12 senior platform engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Drive technical strategy and architecture decisions for Azure Databricks, Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse, Azure Fabric.
- Oversee the development and maintenance of infrastructure as code pipelines leveraging Terraform and Git Actions to automate platform service delivery.
- Balance hands-on technical contribution (40%) with people leadership responsibilities (60%), maintaining technical credibility while developing team capabilities
- Establish and enforce engineering best practices including code quality standards, security protocols, and regulatory compliance requirements
- Manage team performance including goal setting, performance reviews, career development planning, and succession planning
- Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to define technical roadmaps, prioritize initiatives, and deliver platform capabilities
- Lead incident response and problem resolution for critical platform issues, ensuring high availability and reliability
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives including platform optimization, cost reduction, and operational efficiency
- Partner with Risk, Compliance, and Security teams to ensure platform adherence to regulatory and security standards
- Scale the engineering team through strategic hiring, onboarding, and knowledge transfer processes
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; Master’s degree preferred
- Minimum 10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3+ years managing a platform engineering or software engineering team
- 5+ years of experience in financial services with deep understanding of banking technology, security and regulatory requirements
- Ability to manage multiple projects and competing deadlines in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Experience with large scale data platform implementations leveraging Azure Databricks, Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse, Azure Fabric
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, service hardening, and data governance.
- Lead with influence, build relationships, and collaborate effectively with a broad range of stakeholders. Excellent communication skills with ability to interact both with technical teams, business stakeholders and executive teams.
What We Offer
This role offers the opportunity to lead a world-class engineering team building cutting-edge Analytics platform at scale. You’ll have significant influence on technical strategy, access to premier technologies, and the resources to build and grow a high-performing engineering organization.
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. 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. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience, or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues, there are many different career paths within our organization at TD – and we’re committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.
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):
Sans Objet
About TD
The Toronto-Dominion Bank & its subsidiaries are collectively known as TD Bank Group (TD). TD is the sixth largest bank in North America by branches & serves approximately 22 million customers in a number of locations in key financial centres around the globe. Over 85,000 TD employees represent the strongest team in banking. Delivering legendary customer experiences is who we are & is part of being the Better Bank. Visit our Careers page to learn more about TD and why TD is a great place to work.