Lead Business Architect

Work Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:

37.5

Line of Business:

Enterprise Enabling Functions

Pay Details:

$115,600 - $163,200 CAD

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Job Description:

TD Bank Group is one of Canada's largest financial institutions, serving more than 27 million customers across North America. TD Wealth is among the country's most expansive and influential wealth management franchises, spanning a full-service brokerage and advisory platform, private investment counsel, direct investing, mass market retail banking, and one of the largest insurance operations in Canada. TD Wealth's scale and breadth create a significant opportunity to deepen existing client relationships by connecting capabilities and experiences across the enterprise.

TD Wealth is at a pivotal strategic moment. Under the direction of its Group Head, the business has embraced an integrated, enterprise-wide approach to capability development, moving away from siloed, monoline thinking toward a household-centric model that unlocks value across client segments. For our clients, that means one connected TD that grows with them: from their first bank account to self-directed investing, from protecting their home and family to financial advice and private wealth and ultimately helping them pass that wealth on to the next generation.

Opportunity for Impact

The Business Architecture function has been intentionally redesigned to be strategic, innovative and forward-thinking. Positioned at the top of the strategic funnel, the function translates strategy into the target operating models, enterprise capabilities and client journeys required to bring One TD to life. It challenges assumptions, designs across business lines and shapes transformation and investment priorities, leveraging AI, data and emerging technologies as enablers of new possibilities. Business Architecture has a seat at the table when the organization determines where to invest, how to transform and where to compete.

Job Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be accountable for translating TD Wealth enterprise and line-of-business strategies into integrated target operating models, business architectures and capability roadmaps that inform technology, AI and data strategies; reimagining capabilities and journeys; and shaping transformation and investment decisions that accelerate TD Wealth's journey toward One TD.

Reporting to the AVP, Wealth Business Architecture, responsibilities include:

• Collaborate closely with executive leadership, journey and product leaders, and delivery partners across lines of business to translate strategy into execution and align business models, capabilities and transformation priorities.
• Define and evolve multi-year target operating models, business architectures and capability roadmaps across TD Wealth, ensuring integration across advisory, brokerage, insurance, direct investing and retail banking lines of business.
• Lead strategic capability and journey reimagination and prioritization, identifying where investment will drive differentiated value for clients and the business, while challenging line-of-business assumptions where necessary.
• Shape the enterprise capability model across Wealth and TD by identifying opportunities to reduce duplication, fragmentation and structural complexity; determining where capabilities should be common, reusable or enterprise-enabled; and where differentiated capabilities are required to create competitive advantage.
• Leverage deep fluency in automation, AI and Generative AI to reimagine client and advisor experiences, transform middle and back-office operations, and reshape business capabilities and operating models at scale, applying a household-centric design lens.
• Define business outcomes and value measures for target-state capabilities and assess whether transformation investments are delivering intended strategic, client and commercial outcomes.
• Connect capability investments to strategic and commercial outcomes, shaping OKRs and providing architecture-based recommendations that inform portfolio prioritization, sequencing and capital allocation based on dependencies and measurable business value.
• Act as a strategic advisor to product owners, journey leaders, delivery leads and architecture partners, providing business architecture direction and ensuring solution decisions remain aligned to target operating models, enterprise capabilities and strategic priorities.
• Maintain deep knowledge of industry trends, emerging technologies and evolving Wealth business models, representing TD Wealth in relevant industry forums, committees and conferences.
• Provide functional leadership, coaching and mentorship to Business Architecture Analysts, strengthening architecture capability, quality and consistency across the team.

Job Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in Business, Computer Science or a related field; MBA or recognized Business Architecture certification preferred.
• 12+ years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, business architecture or large-scale enterprise transformation within Financial Services, with Wealth experience preferred.
• Extensive experience translating strategy into target operating models, reimagining capabilities and journeys, and developing transformation roadmaps that inform investment priorities and capital allocation.
• Demonstrated experience applying automation, AI and Generative AI to fundamentally reimagine client and advisor experiences, business capabilities, processes and operating models, with a track record of translating AI opportunities into executable transformation initiatives.
• Strong AI fluency, with the ability to engage credibly with technology, data and AI architecture partners; understand the capabilities, limitations and implications of AI technologies; challenge solution choices and assumptions; and translate between business strategy, operating-model decisions and AI-enabled solutions.
• Proven experience shaping or leading complex transformations in Financial Services, with experience in one or more Wealth domains such as Direct Investing, Financial Planning and Advice, Private Wealth or Asset Management preferred.
• Experience navigating large, federated organizations with multiple business units and competing priorities, including the political acumen to drive alignment without formal authority.
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams, managing executive stakeholder relationships and driving alignment across complex organizations.
• Strong communication skills with demonstrated credibility at the executive level, with the ability to frame complex trade-offs clearly and influence without over-indexing on governance.
• Strong knowledge of Business Architecture methods and frameworks, such as BIZBOK, and relevant industry reference models such as BIAN, with the ability to apply them pragmatically across Agile, SAFe and traditional delivery environments.
• The workplace model is 4 days in the office

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.

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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.

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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 
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Accommodation
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We look forward to hearing from you!

Language Requirement (Quebec only):

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