Innovation Solution Developer: TD Lab

Work Location:
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Hours:
37.5

Line of Business:
Technology Solutions

Pay Details:
$76,800 - $115,200 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:

TD's Digital Strategy & Innovation group focuses on accelerating TD's innovation agenda to position TD for the future. Within that group, the Enterprise Innovation & Design team steers our innovation agenda and leads the Design Center of Excellence.

Does that sound exciting? Do you want to help us define the future of customer and even colleague experience at TD? If yes, here's your chance. We are hiring for the position of Innovation Solution Developer where you will lead the process to develop innovative concepts.

The Innovation Solution Developer plays a key role in building new solutions for the team, rapidly bringing new concepts to prototype or proof of concept for technical feasibility, user testing and feedback. While developing new solutions, the Developer works directly with the TD Lab team, in a pod containing other Developers, user experience designers, and business analysts, to help actualize design work and concepts. Crucially, the Developer will also work directly with a team of university co-op students through project work and mentorship, providing guidance, knowledge, and support to one or more colleagues in an accessible way. This role reports directly to the Senior Manager - Lab Leader, TD Lab, within Enterprise Innovation.

The TD Lab team pursues initiatives for TD with a focus on "outside-in" innovation - concepts which start with a new technology opportunity, new market opportunity, or unique customer problem. In following the TD Innovation Framework, this Developer role is focused on solution and software development and experimentation within early stages (including Ideation, Exploration, and Validation) with an aim to maximize chance of product success.

With emerging complex technologies such as Generative AI, Immersive modalities such as Virtual & Augmented reality, forward looking improvements such as Quantum Computing, and physical opportunities including Robotics, this Developer role requires comfort in dealing with ambiguity and a passion for learning driven by focused curiosity. This includes working the team to jointly understand and educate the team on new technology opportunities, identifying where the team can safely leverage new tools and platforms, perform off-grid experimentation, and where appropriate support patent exploration for the team.

In this role at TD Lab, you will have an opportunity to explore emerging technologies, and be empowered to start/stop projects because of what the market tells you. This is a unique opportunity to work in a highly collaborative team, learn continuously, unleash your creativity, and move as quickly as your ability.

Job Requirements:

• Work closely with other developers and designers, and at times with TD lines of business, to develop extraordinary early-stage products and experiences
• Work closely with co-op students in a mentorship role, and conduct resume reviews and interviews to hire co-ops each term
• Participate in collaborative team ideation sessions and contribute to invention opportunities
• Rapidly develop your vision of a solution into functional prototypes (this may include web, mobile, back-end, and/or physical deployments)
• Continuously enhance knowledge / expertise in own area and keep current with leading-edge technologies, emerging trends / developments and grow expertise of the business, applications, infrastructure analytical tools and techniques
• Investigate the potential of emerging and enabling technologies (e.g. AI, robotics, quantum, VR/AR, big data, platform features)
• Document and present innovation areas of opportunity to the team based on your own findings and experiences
• Participate in Design Thinking sessions with team members, leading to building personas, storyboards, flowcharts, wireframes and prototypes, while bringing a focus toward future technical possibilities and feasibility
• Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to quality, reusability and ease of maintenance
• Represent the lab at public events including hackathons, conferences, and recruiting events.
• Support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues / points of interest

Experience:

• Undergraduate or Graduate degree or Technical Certificate
• 5-7 years of relevant development experience including:
• Object oriented programming languages
• iOS (Swift), Android, or Flutter (Dart) mobile development experience
• Experience and comfort working with Python, AI Frameworks, and Large Language Models
• Web development experience (e.g. HTML, SCSS, ES6 JavaScript / Typescript, React, Vue, etc.)
• RESTful APIs (e.g. NodeJS, Express, etc)
• Understanding of cloud-based solutions and architecture
• Git version control
• Experience with an agile scrum methodology, and a user experienced focused development process.

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 deliver legendary customer experiences to 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 the Bank, those we serve, and the economies we support. We are guided by our vision to Be the Better Bank and our purpose to enrich the lives of our customers, communities and colleagues.

TD is deeply committed to being a leader in customer experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are customer facing. As we build our business and deliver on our strategy, we are innovating to enhance the customer experience and build capabilities to shape the future of banking. Whether you've got years of banking experience or are just starting your career in financial services, we can help you realize your potential. Through regular leadership and development conversations to mentorship and training programs, we're here to support you towards your goals. As an organization, we keep growing - and so will you.

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. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience, or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues, there are many different career paths within our organization at TD - and we're committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.

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