AVP, Data Products and Engineering

Work Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours: 37.5

Line of Business: TD Securities

Pay Details: $155,000 - $215,000 CAD

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Job Description: Leads the Data Products and Engineering function, accountable for creating reusable, trusted, business-ready data products that enable front office teams and other stakeholders to make better decisions, accelerate analytics and AI use cases, reduce duplicated data builds, and strengthen governance, lineage, quality, and controls.

Core accountabilities

• Develop and execute the Data Products and Engineering strategy, roadmap, and operating model in alignment with the broader Data, Analytics and AI vision.

• Design reusable, trusted business-ready data products with clear ownership, schemas, refresh cadence, quality expectations, and adoption paths.

• Engineer modern data models and AI-ready data structures to support analytics, agentic workflows, and decision support.

• Develop and govern semantic layers that define business metrics and dimensions consistently across consumption channels.

• Create graph-based ontologies and business relationship models that make client, product, book, account, revenue, risk, and related concepts explicit and machine-readable where warranted.

• Partner with Technology on production implementation, industrialization, platform patterns, controls, and sustainable support models.

• Establish data quality, lineage, provenance, metadata management, observability, and source-correction expectations for products under the function.

• Ensure data products consume approved reference and master data. Escalate missing shared hierarchies or attributes rather than allowing local forks to persist.

• Build a product-led delivery model that separates rapid discovery and validation from scalable technology industrialization.

• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team spanning product ownership, data engineering, modelling, semantics, ontology, business analysis, and front office domain expertise.

• Represent front office data product needs in cross-functional governance forums and enterprise data, AI, and technology working groups as required.

Decision authorities and scope:

• Prioritize the Data Products and Engineering roadmap in partnership with business sponsors, Technology, and governance stakeholders.

• Set standards for registered data products, including product specifications, data contracts, semantic definitions, quality measures, versioning, and change management.

• Recommend architectural decisions for data assets based on consistency, domain expertise, reuse, control, and front office value.

• Guide build versus reuse decisions to reduce duplicated engineering effort and long-term reconciliation costs.

• Business sponsors and front office leaders for prioritization, prototyping, fit-for-purpose validation, adoption, and outcomes.

• Technology partners for production engineering, platform implementation, resiliency, operational support, access controls, and industrialization.

• Reference Data and Master Data teams for client hierarchies, product taxonomy, book and business line hierarchy, securities and instrument master, standard definitions, and reference models.

• AI Products and Decision Sciences for Agentic AI, workflow orchestration, experimentation, prototyping, business validation, and AI-enabled product adoption.

• Central data governance, ontology, semantics, risk, and compliance functions for standards, lineage, metadata, regulatory traceability, and risk-based oversight.

• Adoption of registered, reusable data products by front office and partner teams.

• Reduction in manual reconciliation, duplicated local builds, and one-off data extracts.

• Data quality, availability, freshness, lineage completeness, and SLA performance against published data contracts.

• Cycle time from opportunity discovery through prototype, business validation, product build, technology industrialization, and scale.

• Measured business value from analytics, AI, and decisioning use cases enabled by the data product estate.

• Team health, talent development, delivery predictability, and stakeholder satisfaction.

This role is not expected to be directly customer-facing. It drives customer and shareholder value by simplifying and strengthening the front office data foundation used for analytics, decisioning, AI-enabled workflows, risk insight, relationship coverage, revenue attribution, and operational efficiency.

• Enhances the speed, consistency, and confidence of business decisions by making trusted data products easier to discover, understand, and reuse.

• Creates authoritative business context that makes analytics and AI outputs more explainable, traceable, and governed.

• Reduces friction across business, Technology, Risk, Finance, Compliance, and control functions by aligning common definitions and reusable product components.

• Enables faster validation of new business opportunities while preserving the production controls required for scale.

• Delivery of priority roadmap milestones

• Reuse of semantic definitions, ontology fragments, product specifications, and engineered components across domains.

Skills, Education & Experience:

• 15+ years of experience in capital markets, front office data, data product management, data engineering, analytics, AI, or technology delivery including experience at the senior leadership level.

• Undergraduate degree required or equivalent practical experience. Advanced degree in data, computer science, engineering, mathematics, finance, business, or related field preferred.

• Deep understanding of front office domains such as Sales and Trading, Corporate Banking, Investment Banking, and Payments, with ability to translate business problems into data and AI product capabilities.

• Strong experience leading multidisciplinary teams, setting operating models, building roadmaps, managing priorities, and developing senior talent.

• Demonstrated knowledge of modern data architecture, Lakehouse platforms, data modelling, data contracts, metadata, data quality, lineage, provenance, observability, and production engineering controls.

• Working knowledge of semantic layers, metric governance, ontological thinking, knowledge graphs, and AI-ready data structures.

• Experience partnering with Technology to industrialize prototypes into production-grade solutions with controls, resiliency, and support models.

• Strong stakeholder management capability across business, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Finance, and enterprise governance groups.

• Excellent executive communication skills, including ability to simplify complex technical and operating model decisions for senior audiences.

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 strive to make every interaction, product and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple. 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.

Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.

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