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Role Overview

The IT Solution Architect – Application & Integration is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving end-to-end technology solutions across the Trade Finance and Working Capital Solutions portfolio. This role owns the overall solution architecture for complex, multi-platform initiatives, ensuring alignment with business strategy, enterprise architecture standards, security, regulatory requirements, and operational readiness within a large, regulated banking environment.

The IT Solution Architect operates across strategy, design, delivery, and change, serving as the primary architectural authority for application and integration solutions involving internal platforms, cloud services, and third-party/vendor technologies. The role requires deep technical credibility to guide engineers, challenge designs, and ensure high-quality delivery outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Solution Architecture & Design Accountability

• Own the end-to-end solution architecture for assigned initiatives and platforms, covering applications, integrations, data flows, security, and non-functional requirements
• Translate business capabilities and requirements into cohesive, scalable, and secure solution designs
• Define integration patterns, application interactions, and architectural blueprints across internal systems and external/vendor platforms
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, target state roadmaps, and strategic technology direction

Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Ensure architecture complies with enterprise standards, regulatory obligations, security controls, and internal risk policies
• Lead architecture reviews, design sign-offs, and technical governance forums
• Identify architectural risks, technical debt, and constraints; propose mitigation strategies and phased improvement plans
• Partner with risk, security, and audit teams to address findings and ensure defensible architectural decisions

Delivery Enablement & Oversight

• Partner closely with delivery teams, Senior Engineers, and vendors to guide implementation without direct execution
• Provide architectural direction during solution build, integration, testing, and production readiness
• Resolve cross-platform design issues and integration dependencies during delivery
• Support major releases, platform onboarding, and transformational initiatives from inception through production

Platform Strategy & Lifecycle Planning

• Contribute to platform and integration strategy, including modernization, cloud adoption, and vendor selections
• Define architectural patterns for reuse, resiliency, scalability, and cost efficiency
• Drive reduction of architectural complexity and long-term technical debt
• Support lifecycle decisions including onboarding, major upgrades, and decommissioning

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Act as a trusted technology advisor to business partners, product owners, and technology leaders
• Communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Collaborate effectively across architecture, engineering, operations, security, and vendor teams in a matrixed organization

Required Qualifications

Experience & Core Skills

• 12+ years of progressive experience in application, integration, or platform technology roles, with significant architecture responsibility
• 7+ years of experience within Banking or Financial Services technology environments
• Proven experience designing large-scale, integrated enterprise solutions
• Strong understanding of non-functional requirements (availability, resiliency, security, performance, recoverability)
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills
• Strong analytical and systems-thinking mindset

Architecture & Technical Competencies

• Solution & Integration Architecture: Distributed systems, integration patterns, API-led architectures, event-driven designs
• Integration Technologies: REST APIs, MQ, Web Services, SFTP, file-based integrations
• Security & Architecture: OAuth/OIDC concepts, TLS, certificate management, IAM fundamentals, network segmentation
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Azure architecture, hybrid deployments, virtualization fundamentals
• Data & Formats: JSON, XML, relational database concepts
• SDLC & Delivery Models: Agile/Scrum and Waterfall, architecture governance within delivery pipelines

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Domain knowledge in Trade Finance & Working Capital products, including:
• o Core Trade (Letters of Credit, Standby LCs, Documentary Collections)
• o Supply Chain Finance (Payables, Receivables, Dynamic Discounting)
• Experience with large Canadian bank environments and enterprise delivery models
• Architecture and industry certifications:
• o TOGAF, SAFe Architect, ITIL, Cloud Architecture certifications
• Prior experience guiding third-party vendors and complex regulatory-driven solutions

Attributes for Success

• Ability to balance strategic architecture vision with pragmatic delivery constraints
• Comfortable operating in highly regulated, mission-critical environments
• Confident decision-maker with the ability to challenge assumptions constructively
• Strong collaborator within large, matrixed organizations
• Commitment to continuous learning across architecture, technology, and domain knowledge

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Who We Are:

TD Securities offers a wide range of capital markets products and services to corporate, government, and institutional clients who choose us for our innovation, execution, and experience. With more than 6,500 professionals operating out of 40 cities across the globe, we strive to make every interaction, product and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple. Our services include underwriting and distributing new issues, providing trusted advice and industry-leading insight, extending access to global markets, and delivering integrated transaction banking solutions. In 2023, we acquired Cowen Inc., offering our clients access to a premier U.S. equities business and highly-diverse equity research franchise, while growing our strong, diversified investment bank.

Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.

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 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.

If you’re passionate about helping clients and building deep, lasting relationships, TD offers diverse career paths where you can grow your expertise and make a meaningful impact.

We're committed to your success and foster a respectful workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, everyone has fair opportunities to grow, and you can unlock your full potential to achieve your career goals. Here at TD, we hire and develop the best.

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!

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