Security Architect (Distributed Ledger)

Work Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours: 37.5

Line of Business: Technology Solutions

Pay Details: $125,500 - $148,000 CAD

This role is eligible for a discretionary variable compensation award that considers business and individual performance.

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:

Role Description

We are seeking a highly motivated and hands-on security architect to design, develop, and support next-generation banking and distributed ledger platforms. The successful candidate will possess strong expertise in identity, application security, and cryptographic architecture while contributing to the modernization of enterprise banking solutions. Experience with wallets, transactions, and workflow orchestration platforms is highly desirable and will be considered a significant advantage. The role requires collaboration with architects, business analysts, quality engineering teams, and platform teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and secure solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade security architecture.

• Design security for microservices and APIs that support transaction processing, workflow orchestration, ledger, liquidity, and payments capabilities.

• Design highly available and performant solutions following cloud-native design principles.

• Participate in system design, technical architecture reviews, and code reviews.

• Ensure data integrity, security, and auditability across systems

• Operational guidance for CI/CD pipeline implementation and deployment automation.

• Extensive experience using REST, OAuth, and OIDC.

• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum processes and the ability to lead sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups.

Required Technical Skills

• Core Development

Strong proficiency in:

• RESTful API development - Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Design and Design Patterns.

• Integration & Messaging

• Event-driven architecture

• REST APIs

• API security (OAuth2, OIDC)

• Databases

• PostgreSQL

• Distributed Ledger

• Key Management Systems

• GitHub / Bitbucket

• Kubernetes/OpenShift

• Azure Cloud

Preferred Skills (Added Advantage)

• Banking workflow automation

• Process orchestration platforms

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related discipline.

• 7–10+ years of enterprise software development experience.

• Proven experience delivering large-scale mission-critical applications.

• Expert knowledge of the technical environment/ tools (e.g., user environment, applications, software, hardware, programming languages and operating systems) in own area

• Experience in financial services, banking, payments, or treasury platforms is highly desirable.

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

• Ability to work independently and drive technical solutions.

• Experience collaborating in globally distributed teams.

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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): Sans Objet