Site Reliability Engineer Lead

Work Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:

37.5

Line of Business:

Technology Solutions

Pay Details:

$125,500 - $148,200 CAD

This role is temporarily eligible for a pay premium above the posted salary range that is reassessed annually. You are encouraged to have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide more specific pay details for this role.

TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. 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.

As 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.

Job Description:

Business Context  

TD Technology builds and supports the platforms that power critical banking capabilities across the enterprise. Within TD Technology, the Treasury Analytics Group (TAG) supports Treasury and Balance Sheet Management (TBSM) by engineering the systems, data platforms, and infrastructure used to measure, monitor, and manage liquidity and market risk across Canada and the U.S. 
 
TAG works closely with TBSM partners across Investments, Liquidity Risk Management, Non-Trading Market Risk, and Cash Management. As liquidity reporting and risk platforms continue to evolve, this role offers the opportunity to build and modernize highly visible, business-critical technology in a regulated banking environment. 
 
We operate with strong ownership, engineering discipline, and a bias toward automation.  

 

Position Overview 

We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer Lead, you will lead the delivery, operation, modernization, and lifecycle management of cloud, database, analytics, and infrastructure platforms supporting Quantitative Risk Management (QRM). 

 

You will lead a multidisciplinary engineering team consisting of cloud platform engineers, database platform engineers, DevOps engineers, and application infrastructure specialists. This role combines technical leadership, people leadership, program management, architecture governance, operational ownership, stakeholder management, and technical engineering. 

 

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who combines strong technical depth with disciplined execution and organizational leadership. Your work will help ensure that critical platforms remain stable, secure, scalable, resilient, compliant, and positioned to meet evolving business needs. 

 

What You’ll Do 

• Shape the platform strategy: Own and maintain the long-term roadmap for cloud, database, analytics, and infrastructure platforms, ensuring alignment with business priorities, architecture direction, security requirements, and technology standards. 

• Lead modernization and delivery: Drive platform modernization, cloud adoption, automation, lifecycle management, and technical debt reduction while coordinating the successful delivery of complex platform initiatives. 

• Strengthen reliability and operational excellence: Establish engineering practices, operating models, monitoring, performance management, resiliency controls, and support processes that improve platform availability and reduce operational risk. 

• Guide architecture and governance: Provide technical direction and architectural guidance while defining platform standards, governance processes, operational controls, and reusable engineering patterns. 

• Build and develop the engineering team: Lead, mentor, and develop platform and infrastructure engineers through coaching, career development, hiring, onboarding, succession planning, and clear accountability. 

• Partner across the organization: Work closely with engineering, operations, cybersecurity, architecture, risk, compliance, and business stakeholders to resolve priorities, manage dependencies, and deliver sustainable technology outcomes. 

 

Required Qualifications 

10+ years of experience in cloud, infrastructure, database, platform engineering, or related technical disciplines.  

• 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams or large technology programs.  

• Experience managing enterprise-scale platforms supporting mission-critical applications.  

•  Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, database platforms, DevOps, automation, and platform operations.  

• Proven experience delivering large-scale platform transformations and modernization programs.  

• Experience working within regulated enterprise environments. 

 

Preferred 

 

• Experience designing or operating Microsoft Azure or AWS platform services. 

• Experience with SQL Server platforms, high-availability technologies, and disaster recovery. 

• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery, release automation, and Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform or Ansible. 

• Automation experience using PowerShell, Python, or comparable scripting technologies. 

• Experience with Windows Server, Linux, monitoring, observability, performance engineering, business continuity, or site reliability practices. 

We recognize that strong candidates may bring relevant experience that is not described above. If your background and leadership experience align with the purpose of this role, we encourage you to apply. 

How You’ll Succeed 

Success in this role will be demonstrated through: 

• Achievement of platform availability, reliability, security, and resiliency objectives. 

• Successful delivery of platform roadmaps and modernization initiatives. 

• Reduction in operational incidents and manual effort through automation. 

• Effective audit, compliance, cybersecurity, and operational risk outcomes. 

• Measurable improvements in platform scalability, performance, supportability, and cost effectiveness. 

• Strong employee engagement, engineering capability, talent development, and team retention. 

 

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 strive to make every interaction, product, and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple for 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 foster deeper relationships, ensure disciplined execution, and build a simpler, faster banking experience. TD is deeply committed to being a leader in client experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are client facing. Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.

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. Learn more

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.

If you’re passionate about helping clients and building deep, lasting relationships, TD offers diverse career paths where you can grow your expertise and make a meaningful impact.  

We're committed to your success and foster a respectful workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, everyone has fair opportunities to grow, and you can unlock your full potential to achieve your career goals. Here at TD, we hire and develop the best.

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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