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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.\nLine of Business:\nTechnology SolutionsJob Description:\nThe Principal Software Engineer provides technical expertise with a focus on bank and industry-wide solutions that address capability gaps to create significant value for customers. This role implements solutions, ensuring efficiency, reliability, scalability, and security; includes planning, evaluating, recommending, designing, operationalizing, and supporting solutions in an industry-leading manner.\nThis role provides deep technical leadership, sets direction in developing and implementing solutions to address the Platform or Journey's emerging business needs and strategies. This role advances the overall design, architecture, and technology capabilities in accordance with industry developments. This role teaches, mentors, and coaches others. Additionally, advocates for others to make sure their work is recognized.\nDepth & Scope:\nLeading authority on Software engineering concepts, principals, practices and standards\nThought leader on IT risk-based approaches to Software engineering and on other domains in technology control / information security fields\nSets the direction and oversees the work of other Software Engineering professionals on complex, highly-visible projects of significant profile, strategic importance, and enterprise impact to the bank\nEstablishes and leads Software engineering working groups to achieve goals that impact multiple Journeys and Platform\nProvides consultative and strategic guidance to executive leadership\nEngineering specialist assigned to work autonomously on high profile, complex and high-risk technology initiatives with significant impact to the organization\nHas a blend of skills in Software engineering, architecture, solutions architecture, application security and coding\nPrimarily works at the enterprise level\nEducation & Experience:\nUndergraduate degree, Post Graduate degree or Technical Certificate\nStrong academic background (e.g., computer science, engineering)\nGraduate degree nice to have\n15 years relevant experience\nCustomer Accountabilities:\nIs responsible for advancing the software engineering practices through processes and tools, setting development and design standards at business unit and/or enterprise level\nExecutes 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\nLeads the creation of solution options and ultimately a comprehensive end-to-end solution and coordinate relevant stakeholders, as required to support development initiatives; following a \"build it, break it, fix it mentality\".\nIs responsible for developing and documenting detailed solution design and acts as an application SME through the design and development lifecycle ensuring alignment with Architecture\nIs accountable for complex applications/ systems development, programming / coding\nDevelops functional, technical and user interface designs for an application / system that meets the defined requirements (business, enterprise architecture direction, system performance and development standards)\nConsults on development of requirements and specifications and applies functional knowledge of business functions to design optimal software / systems\nReviews technical deliverables throughout detailed design and development phase to ensure quality adherence and identify gaps or redesign requirements as needed\nIdentifies, recommends, sources, negotiates and implements improvements/ solutions (buy/build/reuse) to enhance customer experience, availability, and/or reduce cost in support of client needs\nWorks with Technology partners to define metrics and performance goals for the application\nIdentifies and addresses application and data issues and cross-capability and cross-release issues that affect application integrity\nResearches/ analyzes business requirements to evaluate and recommend optimal solutions within business technology architecture; collects environment requirements for infrastructure implementation by analyzing the current system environment, using technical tools and utilities\nWorks with Architects to ensure that environment modifications interact appropriately, data conversion impacts are considered, and other areas of impact are addressed and meet performance requirements of the project\nContributes to the advancement of the TD engineering practice through strong collaboration, research, analytic, and problem-solving skills\nShareholder Accountabilities:\nAdheres to enterprise frameworks or methodologies that relate to software engineering activities\nEnsures respective programs/ policies/practices are well managed, meets business needs, complies with internal and external requirements, and aligns with business priorities\nCollaboratively engages with relevant stakeholders at all levels, both internal and external, to shift from finding defects to proactively preventing defects\nActively seeks and supports continuous improvement and automation opportunities within the engineering practice\nConducts meaningful analysis at the functional or enterprise level using results to draw conclusions, make recommendations, assess the effectiveness of programs/ policies/ practices\nIdentify opportunities to minimize cost, provide recommendations and/or deliver corresponding strategic solutions to support cost effectiveness and to enhance stakeholder experience\nConducts code reviews to ensure adherence to quality, standards compliance, reusability and ease of maintenance, Operational Readiness Reviews, and supporting gating and review sign-offs for solution design\nMonitors service, productivity and assesses efficiency levels within own function and implement continuous process / performance improvements where opportunities exists\nLeads / facilitates and/or implements actions / remediation plans to address performance / risk /governance issues\nActively manages relationships within and across various business lines, corporate and/or control functions and ensures alignment with enterprise and/or regulatory requirements\nProtects the interests of the organization - identifies and manage risks, and escalates non-standard, high risk activities as necessary\nKeeps abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assesses potential impacts\nMaintains a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite\nEmployee/Team Accountabilities:\nParticipates fully as a member of the team, supports a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensures timely communication of issues/ points of interest\nProvides thought leadership and/ or industry knowledge for quality engineering best practices and participates in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit\nKeeps current on emerging trends/ developments and grows knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques\nParticipates in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within own team\nKeeps others informed and up-to-date about the status / progress of projects and / or all relevant or useful information related to day-to-day activities\nActively mentors and enables team members by sharing knowledge and leveraging engineering best practices\nSupports the team by providing guidance and proactively identifying and resolving issues\nLeads, motivates and develops relationships with internal and external business partners / stakeholders to develop productive working relationships\nContributes to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce\nActs as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the bank, both internally and/or externally\nPreferred Qualifications:\n15+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including at least 7 years in senior technical leadership, architecture, or enterprise-scale engineering transformation roles within complex, highly regulated environments, preferably financial services.\nDeep hands-on engineering expertise, with demonstrated ability to dive into complex codebases, troubleshoot critical production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and lead technical remediation during high-severity situations. Must demonstrate technical depth beyond traditional people management.\n10+ years of experience driving SDLC and PDLC transformation, including Agile/SAFe, DevSecOps, CI/CD, engineering productivity, developer experience, quality engineering, and release automation. Proven ability to identify systemic delivery bottlenecks and deliver measurable improvements in engineering throughput, quality, and predictability.\nStrong command of software architecture fundamentals and first-principles thinking, with at least 8 years of experience designing or modernizing distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and highly resilient, scalable applications. Demonstrated ability to make complex architectural trade-offs.\n5+ years of experience in platform engineering, including designing and building enterprise-scale internal developer platforms, reusable engineering services, developer self-service capabilities, environment management, infrastructure automation, and performance engineering solutions adopted across multiple engineering organizations.\n3+ years of practical experience applying AI/ML and Generative AI to software engineering, including hands-on implementation of AI-assisted development, agentic AI workflows, intelligent test generation, code modernization, automated code reviews, and AI-driven engineering productivity solutions. 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