Full Stack Architect - Investment Management

Full Stack Architect - Investment Management

As a Full Stack Architect in our Investment Management space, you will lead next generation platform architecture, champion cloud-native and event driven patterns, and modernize a cloud/distributed/mainframe ecosystem to deliver scalable, secure solutions for our mutual funds, GIC's and registered product experience.

CUSTOMER

• Apply 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

• Advise 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

• Collaborates 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 solutions

SHAREHOLDER

• Set service-level objectives (SLO) and exercise key decision rights of the FSA role

• Focus on reliability, scalability, and the development of the architectural infrastructure; including highly complex and scalable systems?

• Lead interaction with governance and control groups, (e.g. regulatory / operational risk, compliance and audit) to provide subject matter expertise and consult on risk issues related to architectural technology and tools

• Monitor and report on the status of the products / projects and applications within assigned product, ensuring projects are compliant with technology domain architecture, and designs / operates processes to provide ongoing review of in-progress activity against technology architecture and development standards

• Foresee architectural issues / gaps and identifies emerging industry trends to recommend value-added architectural improvements that will alleviate technology debt and build resilient solutions

• Maps processes and sub-processes that bridge the gap between business problems and technology solutions

• Collaborates 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

• Protect the interests of the organization – identify and manage risks, and escalate non-standard, high risk activities as necessary

• Keep abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts

EMPLOYEE / TEAM

• Participate fully as a member of the team, support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest

• Keep current on emerging trends/ developments and grow knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques

• Contribute to team development of skills and capabilities through mentorship of others, by sharing knowledge and experiences and leveraging best practices; may take on the role of Chapter Lead as applicable

• Work collaboratively with the team and leadership to proactively identify and resolve issues related to product quality

• Contribute to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce

BREADTH & DEPTH

• Seasoned individual contributor role with expert knowledge of specific enterprise and/or functional domain(s) and a demonstrated track record working with a broad range of architecture frameworks, technology, tools, processes and procedures

• Exceptional collaboration, communication and client-facing skills

• Big-picture thinker, with ability to anticipate architectural gaps and identify emerging trends through both advanced business acumen and highly specialized technical knowledge of TD and its applications, programming languages, industry best practices, Bank standards, infrastructure and architectural design / solutions

• Architect assigned to work autonomously on high profile, complex and/or high-risk technology projects with significant impact to the organization

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

• Undergraduate degree or Technical Certificate (Graduate degree preferred)

• 10+ years relevant architecture experience developing a variety of platforms

• Expertise in designing cloudnative solutions across Azure and hybrid multicloud environments,

• Experience with event driven and API-first architectures, including Kafka or equivalent platforms and the design of secure, scalable APIs

• Realtime orchestration and decoupled interaction across distributed systems.

• Expertise in shaping targetstate architectures, reference models, roadmaps, and modernization journeys.

• Experience with distributed and mainframe architectures operating alongside cloudnative and vendor platforms.

• Experience with AI and its potential to enhance decision making, automation, and business value.

• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure as code, and secure deployment pipelines.

• Architecture experience related to platform conversions

• Familiarity with Investment Management products—such as mutual funds, GICs, RRSPs, and investment savings accounts—is an asset and supports stronger alignment with our platform ecosystem.