**Work Location** : New York, New York, United States of America **Hours:** 40 **Line of Business:** Technology Solutions **Pay Detail:** $250,000 - $370,000 USD 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:** **Department Overview** TD Securities ("TDS") provides a wide range of Corporate, Investment Banking & Capital Market products and services to corporate, government, and financial institution ("FI") clients through Global Transaction Banking ("GTB"), Corporate and Investment Banking ("CIB"), and Global Markets ("GM"). The firm works with clients around the world, focusing selectively and strategically on key global financial centers: New York, Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver, London, Singapore, and Tokyo. www.td.com Transaction Banking is a key growth business for TD Securities, Canadian Business Banking and US Commercial Banking. Transaction Banking innovative solutions target Corporates with large and complex liquidity, payments, and trade finance needs. This business constantly changes with macroeconomic conditions, unprecedented levels of innovation, interest rate environments, and foreign exchange movements. As a result, the technology supporting the business line should be capable of continuous evolution to provide optimum credit trade finance, liquidity, and payment solutions to clients. **Job Summary** We are seeking an accomplished and strategic technology executive to lead our Transaction Banking Value Creation Ledger Strategy team as we deliver on our strategic transformation program to grow and transform our Commercial and Transaction Banking platform. This executive will play a critical role in defining and executing a modern, unified ledger architecture that abstracts complex legacy cores, supports real-time transaction integrity, and enables digital, product, and payments teams to operate independently of underlying systems. The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in core banking, ledger abstraction, and payments architecture, with proven experience influencing C-level stakeholders, shaping enterprise architecture, driving operational resilience and leading complex transformation programs across global financial institutions. This role is central to our multi-year modernization agenda enabling a composable, cloud-native banking platform fit for scale, agility, and future innovation. **Key Responsibilities** + Ledger Strategy defining and owning the long-term strategy for ledger abstraction and orchestration across the platform. Establish a cohesive architecture that decouples digital products, client experiences, and payment services from legacy core systems, while preserving data integrity, traceability, and resilience + Core Modernization & Abstraction Leadership. Influence and enable the transformation of legacy ledger systems into modular, API-accessible services. Champion the introduction of abstraction layers, service meshes, and orchestration engines that enable real-time posting, reconciliation, and accounting functions across diverse platforms in the bank. + Executive Engagement & Influence shaping strategic priorities, advise on investment decisions, and represent ledger and core platform transformation at senior steering committees and architecture forums. + Technology Delivery & Cloud-Native Execution designing and oversee the delivery of ledger and posting services on Azure or Google Cloud, utilizing microservices, Kubernetes, serverless functions, and event streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub) to drive scalability and resilience. + Drive the adoption of AI in how we can reimagine operational experience. + Governance and Risk: Ensure compliance to all local applicable regulations and drive the highest standards of excellence across our technical and operational teams ensure resiliency and availability to our clients. + Team Building & Culture: Build and lead diverse, high-performing, and engineering-forward teams. Create a delivery culture grounded in innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement. **Experience & Qualifications** + 20+ years of progressive technology leadership, with proven recent success in core banking platforms, payments infrastructure and ledger systems for global banks or fintech around Payments, Treasury and Liquidity management leading 200MM change portfolios and global teams. + Recent experience implementing Financial Banking Platform at scale for a significant financial institution. + Innovative thought leader driving modern engineering, modernization and a data and AI first approach to engineering. + Recent leadership of large-scale core banking or ledger transformation programs, including hands-on involvement in abstraction, orchestration, and middleware layer design. + Deep expertise in ledger principles, posting engines, double-entry systems, subledger-to-GL flows, and real-time financial data integrity. + Executive presence and gravitas to engage with senior business and technology leaders, translate complex technical concepts into strategic narratives, and influence funding, prioritization, and enterprise architecture decisions. + Advanced knowledge of modern integration architectures: REST/gRPC APIs, Kafka/pub-sub eventing, containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and domain-driven design. + Experience delivering platforms on Azure or Google Cloud, and managing hybrid deployments involving legacy cores and modern services. + Familiarity with global and regional payment networks and messaging standards (e.g., ISO 20022, FedNow, RTP, ACH, SWIFT) + Track record of building high-performing teams, driving architectural maturity, and instilling engineering excellence in large, federated technology organizations. + Experience engaging with external providers, industry groups, and regulatory bodies on ledger modernization, interoperability, or payment infrastructure strategy is highly desirable. + Proven senior executive partnerships with FinTechs, vendors, and platform providers; able to assess build/buy/partner decisions and establish enduring ecosystem relationships. + Excellent cross-functional leadership skills with the ability to drive transformation across product, engineering, operations, and compliance teams. + Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or a related field. **Who We Are** 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. **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 base salary and variable compensation/incentive awards (e.g., eligibility for cash and/or equity incentive awards, generally through participation in an incentive plan) and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off (including Vacation PTO, Flex PTO, and Holiday PTO), banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition. Learn more (http://hrportal.ehr.com/tdtotalrewards) **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. **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. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience, or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues, there are many different career paths within our organization at TD – and we’re committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals. **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** TD Bank is an equal opportunity employer. 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