TD Bank: AVP Infrastructure Engineering

Not very many of you are likely to have the qualifications to be an Assistant VP of Infrastructure Engineering for TD Bank, so I’m going to keep this pretty short.  That said, the job sounds reasonably interesting, more so than I’d expect for an AVP position at a bank, and the pay range quoted on one of the listings I saw went up to $150k, so it seems safe to suggest that if you have the qualifications for this position, you might want to take a quick look:

Infrastructure Engineering is responsible for the build, test, implementation and third-level support of all infrastructure technologies for the bank. The Software Engineering team will be assembled from a set of existing groups within Engineering, and will fulfill that mandate for all software components of our infrastructure, including: database, security, directory, messaging, mobility, middleware, content management, development tools, test tools, and production support tools.

Reporting to the VP, Engineering the successful candidate will oversee an annual plan of approximately $50mm and a team of 143 FTEs spread across five campuses: Scarborough, Mississauga, London, Toronto and Lewiston, Maine.

The role is accountable for leading the teams in Security, Directory, Software Engineering and Database and ensures this North American team is aligned with ITS strategic initiatives.

Working with internal, the incumbent will require an in depth understanding of their business needs while identifying and leveraging synergies across the partners. Leads the team to deliver solutions in assigned functional area, meet SLA’s, Interface with IT, finance, audit, business unit management and other areas of our client to ensure integrated processes, efficient introduction of new technologies, retirement of obsolete technologies and support for business-led initiatives requiring the capabilities of this infrastructure.

The original TD posting is pretty old, but headhunters seem to be carrying the torch now, so if you’re interested, you’ll want to work with them: Brainhunter on Working in Toronto, Modis on Higher Bracket.

In Summary
Very senior role for a bank, and yet, not deathly boring.  Seems like it’s well-compensated.   What else could you ask for?

TD Bank: AVP, Software Engineering

TD Bank Financial Group is looking for an AVP,  Software Engineering:

Reporting to the VP, Engineering the successful candidate will oversee an annual plan of approximately $50mm and a team of 143 FTEs spread across five campuses: Scarborough, Mississauga, London, Toronto and Lewiston, Maine.

The role is accountable for leading the teams in Security, Directory, Software Engineering and Database and ensures this North American team is aligned with ITS strategic initiatives.

The Good
TD Bank is a big, well-known financial institution.  Assistant Vice-President for a bank is a pretty senior role, and the size of the budget and team is significant.

The Bad
The usual dearth of information.  What’s the compensation like for an AVP at TD Bank?  Is the location the TD HQ downtown, or something else?  What are the travel expectations, given the distributed team?

YMMV
Your mileage may vary when it comes to working in a financial institution, even in Canada, in the wake of sub-prime.  It’s also likely to be a very corporate environment.

There isn’t going to be very much actual technology.  At this level, you’re mostly about managing people and contracts and budgets, and not so much about the technology.  Sure, it’s important to have some understanding about the technology that you can get a sense of strategic direction and do an effective job of managing the people who’re going to have to work more closely with the technology, but you’re not that likely to fire up an IDE, even to review someone else’s code.

But then, if you were looking for that sort of thing, you probably stopped reading after “TD Bank: AVP,” because what else would you expect?

In Conclusion
To be honest, anyone who thinks they have have a shot at the job and is at all interested should probably look into it in more detail.  Positions this senior at this big a company don’t come around every hour, so it’s worth a quick look to see if there’s a fit.