Associate Vice President, Technology, AI Operations and Observability

Work Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:

37.5

Line of Business:

Technology Solutions

Pay Details:

$160,000 - $215,000 CAD

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:

This is a high-impact leadership opportunity to shape how enterprise technology operations evolve in the age of AI. The AVP will influence strategy across observability, resilience, incident intelligence, and automation at enterprise scale, while working on some of the most important challenges in modern operations: reducing noise, accelerating recovery, improving customer stability, and enabling safe, governed adoption of AI in production operations.

This leader will play a central role in advancing intelligent triage, summarization, root cause hypothesis generation, runbook automation, and self-healing capabilities in a controlled enterprise environment.

Depth and Scope:

• Define and execute the enterprise strategy for Observability, AIOps, SRE, and incident intelligence.
• Lead global teams responsible for the platforms, practices, and product roadmap that enable 24x7 operational visibility and resilience across critical technology services.
• Drive the next phase of transformation from reactive monitoring to predictive, AI-assisted operations by advancing telemetry standards, improving signal quality, and scaling automation across the incident lifecycle.

• Partner closely with engineering, platform, and application teams to embed observability into design, build, and run practices, while also leading vendor strategy, platform rationalization, and cost optimization
• Define and execute the enterprise strategy for Observability, AIOps, SRE, and incident intelligence
• Build trusted partnerships across engineering, infrastructure, architecture, risk, and control functions to deliver secure, stable, and scalable operational outcomes.
• Establish governance and guardrails for AI and LLM-enabled operational workflows, with a strong focus on explainability, auditability, resiliency, and data protection.
• Improve service availability and reduce customer-impacting outages
• Enable faster recovery and proactive issue prevention
• Enhance reliability of digital and core banking platforms

Education and Experience:

• Undergraduate degree or Technical Certificate
• 15+ years of development and technology delivery experience with Agile Delivery Experience preferred
• Strong experience with APM, Event management, Operational Automation and Reporting Platforms Including Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk PagerDuty, RunDeck, PowerBI.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders, lead through ambiguity, align teams to measurable outcomes, and create a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.

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