Senior Manager Engineering - Distributed systems

Description

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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 modern 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 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):

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