Data Platform Engineering Manager

Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of the Databricks-based technology reference data platform.

Develop platform standards, engineering patterns, and operating procedures that support enterprise scalability and sustainability.

Establish a modern data ecosystem capable of supporting governance, reporting, analytics, and AI-driven use cases.

Drive platform modernization initiatives that improve performance, automation, resilience, and user experience.

Lead onboarding of technology systems of record into the enterprise data platform.

Design and implement scalable integration patterns including APIs, event-driven architectures , data streaming, and zero-copy data sharing.

Establish standards for source system connectivity, transformation, validation, and data movement.

Partner with source system owners to ensure data is delivered accurately, securely, and efficiently.

Design, build, and manage data pipelines that transform disparate source data into standardized enterprise data assets.

Develop reusable ingestion and transformation frameworks that accelerate onboarding of new data sources.

Implement automated controls to ensure data quality, integrity, completeness, and consistency.

Optimize data processing and storage solutions to support large-scale technology data domains.

Establish monitoring and observability capabilities to ensure platform health and data reliability.

Define operational support processes, service-level agreements, and issue management procedures.

Lead remediation efforts for data delivery issues, performance bottlenecks, and platform incidents.

Ensure platform availability, resiliency, and business continuity requirements are met.

Ensure compliance with enterprise security, data protection, and regulatory requirements.

Implement access controls, encryption standards, audit logging, and monitoring capabilities.

Partner with Risk, Security, and Compliance teams to support governance objectives.

Ensure adherence to enterprise technology and data management standards.

Support development and operationalization of technology data products.

Ensure data products are sourced from authoritative systems and delivered through governed engineering processes.

Build reusable data services supporting reporting, analytics, APIs, and business intelligence platforms.

Enable self-service access to trusted enterprise technology data where appropriate.

Partner with Data Architecture, Governance, Reporting, and Business Intelligence teams to deliver integrated solutions.

Collaborate with Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Cloud, Engineering, and Enterprise Architecture teams.

Participate in enterprise governance forums and provide technical leadership on platform capabilities and integration approaches.

Influence platform and engineering decisions that improve enterprise data maturity.

Build and lead a high-performing team of data engineers, platform engineers, integration specialists, and DataOps professionals.

Establish clear team objectives, performance measures, and development plans.

Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, automation, and continuous improvement.

Manage team capacity, prioritization, resource allocation, and delivery commitments.

Ensure engineering teams follow enterprise standards, controls, and best practices.

Develop technical talent and mentoring programs to strengthen engineering capabilities.

Promote collaboration across architecture, governance, analytics, and technology teams.

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science , Engineering, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline.

Master's Degree preferred in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.

Relevant certifications preferred:

Databricks Data Engineer Professional

Azure Data Engineer Associate

AWS Data Analytics or Data Engineering Certification

Google Professional Data Engineer

Snowflake, Kafka, or Streaming Technology Certifications

ITIL Foundation

8-12+ years of experience in data engineering, data platform delivery, software engineering, cloud data platforms, or related technology roles.

5+ years leading engineering or platform teams in large enterprise environments.

Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise data lakes, data fabrics, or cloud-native data platforms such as Databricks.

Strong experience building APIs, event-driven architectures, streaming platforms, and modern integration solutions.

Hands-on experience developing scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and data transformation frameworks.

Experience with cloud ecosystems including Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.

Strong understanding of DataOps , observability, monitoring, automation, and platform operations.

Experience supporting enterprise reporting, analytics, AI, and machine learning use cases through modern data platforms.

Experience working in highly regulated organizations with strong governance, security, and compliance requirements.

Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.

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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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.

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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.

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