Director - Compliance and Supervision Technology

Work Location:

London, United Kingdom

Hours:

35

Line of Business:

TD Securities

Pay Details:

We’re committed to providing fair and equitable compensation to all our colleagues. As a candidate, we encourage you to have an open dialogue with a member of our HR Team and ask compensation related questions, including pay details for this role.

Job Description:

Job Description: Director Technology Solutions – User Experience & Front-End Architecture

Summary:

The Director – Compliance Technology (User Experience & Front-End Architecture) is a senior leadership role responsible for defining and delivering the enterprise user experience strategy across Compliance, Surveillance, and Supervision platforms.  This role operates as a horizontal technology leader, driving standardization, reusability, and consistency of front-end frameworks and user experience across multiple compliance workstreams.  The Director partners with business, compliance, and engineering stakeholders to ensure UI platforms are scalable, intuitive, compliant, and aligned with regulatory expectations, while enabling efficient delivery across distributed teams.

Key Responsibilities:

UI Platform Strategy & Horizontal Leadership

• Define and execute the enterprise front-end/UI strategy across Compliance Technology platforms.
• Establish shared UI frameworks, design systems, and reusable components used across all delivery workstreams.
• Act as the horizontal lead for UI engineering, ensuring consistency in:
  • User experience (UX)
  • Accessibility standards
  • Design patterns
  • Performance benchmarks
• Drive alignment between product teams, architecture, and engineering to enforce UI standards at scale.

Architecture & Engineering Oversight

• Provide technical leadership for modern front-end architectures (e.g., micro-frontend, SPA frameworks, API-driven UI).
• Ensure seamless integration of front-end platforms with back-end services, vendor products, and data platforms.
• Establish and enforce secure, scalable, and compliant UI design patterns, aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Review solution designs to ensure adherence to security, data privacy, and regulatory compliance requirements.

Cross Functional Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with Compliance, Surveillance, & AML stakeholders and product owners to translate regulatory and operational requirements into UI solutions.
• Influence roadmap prioritization to ensure high-value user journeys and regulatory workflows are optimized.

Regulatory & Control Alignment

• Ensure all UI platforms support:
  • Auditability and traceability
  • Workflow controls and user entitlements
  • Regulatory reporting and evidencing
• Embed controls-by-design principles into UI development to support compliance obligations.
• Stay current on regulatory changes and industry trends impacting compliance systems.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Evaluate emerging technologies (e.g., advanced visualization, AI-assisted UX, low-code UI platforms).
• Drive continuous improvement in:
  • Developer productivity
  • UI performance and responsiveness
  • User adoption and usability
• Promote an Agile, product-centric engineering culture across teams.

Required Qualifications:

• 15+ years of technology leadership experience, financial services an advantage.
• Strong experience in front-end technologies (e.g., React, TypeScript, modern UI frameworks).
• Expertise in enterprise UI architecture (SPA, micro-frontends, API-first design).
• Integration experience across distributed systems and vendor platforms.
• Understanding of data-driven UI and real-time visualization for compliance/surveillance use cases.
• Proven experience leading large-scale, cross-functional technology programs.
• Demonstrated ability to define and enforce engineering standards across multiple teams.
• Experience operating in regulatory‑driven programs with high expectations for auditability, traceability, and sustainability.
• Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex data and technology risks to senior stakeholders and regulators.

Who We Are

TD Securities 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 investment we make in our colleagues to help them, and their families achieve their well-being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, including medical coverage, paid time off, career development, and reward and recognition programs.

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. 

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 

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