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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.\nAs 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.\nJob Description:\nBuilding a World-Class, Diverse and Inclusive Technology Team at TD\nWe can't afford to be boring. Neither can you. The scale and scope of what TD does may surprise you. The rapid pace of change makes it a business imperative for us to be smart and open-minded in the way we think about technology. TD's technology and business teams become more intertwined as new opportunities present themselves. This new era in banking does not equal boring. Not at TD, anyway.\nTD IT Architecture covers TD's overall technology strategy, direction, standards for designing and/or developing an architecture framework including technology architecture strategy, policies, guiding principles and standards to govern how technology solutions will be developed and implemented across the organization. Architects typically develop and maintain any combination of the following: solution and application architecture, infrastructure environment architecture, technical integration architecture, data strategies and models, security and enterprise architecture.\nThere's room to grow in all of it.\n About This Role\nWe are looking for someone to join us to put their stamp on a domain or segment specialization while providing direction, guidance and governance on structure, design, technology applications and infrastructure. All of this feeds into our focus on developing, customizing and integrating systems. You'll be able to demonstrate how your valuable knowledge and guidance can strengthen technology team and business area understanding of architectural options and technology choices. If this reads to you like a role that's fundamentally important to TD's Architecture team and the organization as a whole, your instinct is right.\nThe new architect will primarily support the payments data domain and engaged with various technologies such as MongoDB, Kafka, public cloud (primarily Azure), APIs, microservices architecture and containers (Azure AKS and GDC GKE). Previous experience with payments, payments technologies and payments architecture is a valuable asset. Here's some of the tasks you may be asked to perform:\nWork directly with various teams and solution architects to understand problems and business requirements, assisting with issue resolution and solution alignment. \nGuide architecture & engineering teams to define reusable patterns, leverage modern architectural approaches (DDD, DevOps, Events, Cloud, Microservices, Data Pipelines) \nExperience designing Container based solutions on Kubernetes and/or designing Kubernetes clusters (Azure AKS) \nOversee and define development specifications, technical requirements, system performance objectives, identify necessary system modifications. \nIdentify, recommend, source, negotiate, implement emerging IT trends, developments and improvements and solutions (buy, build, reuse). \nResearch and analyze business requirements to recommend optimal architecture solutions. \nParticipate as a top expert and consultant on the most high-risk and complex initiatives. \nProvide insight and recommendations to develop and implement system architecture with business units and technology departments while creating awareness of total ownership costs. \nImpart subject matter expertise to influence vendors on product design, develop and contribute to third-party contract negotiations where applicable. \nBuild consensus, facilitate collaboration and decision-making within and across business units so IT strategy application aligns with architecture framework. \nApply industry and technical knowledge to provide solutions that increase business results and minimize risk. \nLead in knowledge transfer meetings with senior management, team, other technical area sand business units. \nMeaningful work is fueled by meaningful performance and career development conversations with your manager.\nCUSTOMER\nStrong communication skills. Ability to understand business needs and provide practical architecture and technology solutions while advancing the overall long-term vision\nApply a multi-disciplined expertise with database, application, client tiers, layering of software, build, test and deploy strategies in order to create the overall design of software (including applications, infrastructure, middleware) and guide how the sub-components are developed by different teams\nElevate focus on applications and data as differentiators for the customer experience, anchored in sound foundational elements of Infrastructure and Platforms\nAdvise on suitability of technology stacks to define principles / key constraints for solution components; rallies the team around these principles to determine security / scalability approach, and impact assessments for future design\nDrive continual upgrading and grounds the team in assessing practical program concerns to innovate on both server-side and user-side features as technologies / platforms expand to reduce technology debt and build resilient solutions\nLead code reviews to create and test prototypes to assess viability of approaches. Uses configuration management and integration / build automation tools to lead and deploy code, gather proof points for developers to build on, navigate around complexities based on a clear understanding of the vision across the technology stacks and provide critical suggestions for fixes and improvements on the integration\nMonitor and report on progress and collaborates broadly with other practitioners, including designers, engineers, and other applicable business stakeholders to ensure the necessary features for the products and applications are developed within assigned portfolio\nDesign tests that will be implemented to keep the software functional; supports issue analysis and fix activities during test phases, as well as production issue resolution\nCollaborates with Practices, actively driving capability creation; mentoring and training junior colleagues to be adaptive, staying on top of expanding technologies and engineering trends and creating highly visual and functional 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technology domain architecture, and designs / operates processes to provide ongoing review of in-progress activity against technology architecture and development standards\nForesee architectural issues / gaps and identifies emerging industry trends to recommend value-added architectural improvements that will alleviate technology debt and build resilient solutions\nMaps processes and sub-processes that bridge the gap between business problems and technology solutions\nKeep track of changes made to code through control systems\nCollaborates within practices, platforms or journeys comprised of diverse and complementary skills; inspiring the team to embrace changes and continually advance collective knowledge of technical tools / trends\nProtect the interests of the organization - identify and manage risks, and escalate non-standard, high risk activities as necessary\nKeep abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts\nMaintain a 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