Technology Delivery Lead [Td Bank]

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Department OverviewBuilding a World Class Technology

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 help clients meet their needs today and prepare for tomorrow. 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.

We are growth-oriented, people-focused, and community-minded. As a team, we work to deliver value for our clients every day.

About This Role

We are looking for someone to manage and lead a team of ambitious technology professionals as they deliver a wide range of application or system solutions. You'll also have the opportunity to provide technical guidance and leadership beyond your immediate team.

Here's Some Of What You May Be Asked To Perform

Meaningful work is fueled by meaningful performance and career development conversations with your manager.

• Responsible for delivering in line with financial forecast and plan, and achieving benefits targets as defined for Application Development teams.
• Act as an escalation point for all risks and issues affecting the development team, and for working to define and implement mitigation strategies.
• Ensure all requirements, project plans, and changes to commitment are communicated to all affected team members.
• Ensure the project team follows all quality assurance processes.
• Lead development teams and own responsibility for the delivery of development solutions and component/unit testing efforts.
• Drive stakeholder communications, develop effective stakeholder management required for team delivery.
• Define the Application Development Vendor Strategy and manage vendors and service level agreements.
• Oversee demand management and project intake process, ensuring the development team can deliver on intake requirements and financial cost estimations are reviewed and approved.
• Identify all development related project dependencies and risks and ensures mitigation/contingency plans are in place for identified risks.
• Control change to development project scope through accepted change management processes, impact assessment and documentation.
• Work with technology partners to develop the content for development and solutions design deliverables, ensure project estimates cover all activities within scope, including project management and application development, software quality assurance reviews, and vendor and contract management activities.
• Oversee and report on project status, manage project team resources and assignments, ensure project milestones are met and up to standard.
• Set targets and objectives for the team, and deliver results.
• Responsible for management of the overall development and design teams providing both leadership and technical guidance.
• Manage and track costs in line with investment governance to deliver agreed outcomes and service-level within budget.
• Coordinate with relevant stakeholders to support and develop sound business cases with an on-going focus on reusability, scalability, innovation and enterprise-wide solutions.

Requirements

It Helps If You Have

What can you bring to TD. Share your credentials, but your relevant experience and knowledge can be just as likely to get our attention.

• Advanced knowledge of external competition, industry and/or market trends.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of businesses and/or organizational practices and disciplines.
• Graduate Degree preferred.
• 10+ years relevant experience.
• Experience and natural affinity for providing operational team direction and working autonomously in a management role, and can collaborate effectively with others to establish and execute on common goals.
• Undergraduate Degree or Technical Certificate.
• Deep expertise in and experience with technology standards and leading large and varied teams of professionals in large-scale applications/projects across multiple areas involving significant scope and complexity.
• Readiness and motivation to direct and manage a large and diverse group or team of IT professionals (e.g. up to 50) focused on complex development, system enhancements, new releases, large-scale applications, projects across multiple product lines, businesses, involving significant scope and complexity.

Additional Information

Join in on what others in TD Technology Solutions are doing:

• Inspire a positive work environment and help champion quality, innovation, teamwork and service to the business.
• Learn voraciously, stretch your thinking, share your knowledge and educate others.
• Communicate and collaborate with both technical and non-technical professionals.
• Share our commitment to productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency.
• Cultivate winning relationships by building trust with business and technology partners.

Hours37.5Inclusiveness

At TD, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and communities in which we live and serve. If you require an accommodation for the recruitment/interview process (including alternate formats of materials, or accessible meeting rooms or other accommodation), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.