Senior Manager, Engineering (Pega)
Layer 6 AI
Toronto, ON, Canada
Work Location:
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaHours:
37.5Line of Business:
Technology SolutionsPay Details:
$149,500 - $183,500 CADThe pay details posted reflect a temporary market premium specific to this role that is reassessed annually.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:
Department
Branch Banking Technology team
Job Details – What You'll Do
The Senior Engineering Manager is a senior technology leader responsible for driving engineering excellence, modern architecture, and reliable delivery across complex enterprise platforms. This role leads multiple engineering teams and technical leads, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with business and technology strategies for Pega-based workflow and case management solutions and My eSign.
The Senior Engineering Manager partners closely with Product, Architecture, Operations, and Delivery leaders to translate business outcomes into high‑quality technical solutions while building strong, engaged, and high‑performing engineering teams.
Key Accountabilities
Engineering Leadership & Delivery
- Lead and manage multiple engineering teams responsible for the design, development, and support of enterprise-grade applications and platforms, including Pega BPM / Case Management solutions.
- Own end‑to‑end technical delivery for Pega and non‑Pega platforms, ensuring solutions meet functional, non‑functional, security, and resiliency requirements.
- Drive consistent engineering standards, guardrails, and best practices for Pega design, integration, and deployment.
- Ensure production stability through strong SDLC, DevOps, and operational readiness practices, including Pega release and upgrade management.
Architecture & Technical Strategy
- Partner with Enterprise and Solution Architects to shape Pega-centric and hybrid solution designs aligned to target-state architectures.
- Provide technical leadership for complex Pega implementations, including integrations with legacy systems, APIs, and cloud services.
- Guide decisions related to Pega framework configuration, reuse, performance optimization, and platform scalability.
- Proactively identify Pega technical debt, platform risks, and modernization opportunities.
People & Talent Leadership
- Build, lead, and mentor engineering managers, technical leads, and senior engineers, including Pega architects and developers.
- Develop strong internal Pega capability through coaching, skills development, and succession planning.
- Foster an engineering culture focused on accountability, quality, and continuous improvement.
Stakeholder & Cross‑Functional Partnership
- Act as a trusted technology partner for business stakeholders leveraging Pega-based workflows and automation.
- Translate complex Pega solutions and constraints into clear, executive-ready communication.
- Support regulatory, audit, and risk requirements related to workflow, decisioning, and case data.
Where You'll Work
You’ll work primarily onsite and your time will be spent at a TD location 4 days a week for meetings, team events and experiences. The hiring manager will provide more information about how this works for their team.
Job Requirements – What You Need to Succeed
Required
- 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, including senior leadership roles.
- Strong hands-on and leadership experience with Pega Platform (BPM / Case Management), including large-scale enterprise implementations.
- Demonstrated experience leading on shore and off shore teams delivering Pega solutions end‑to‑end (design, build, test, deploy, support).
- Strong understanding of Pega architecture, integrations, performance, and environment management.
- Proven experience leading Agile delivery models and CI/CD pipelines, including Pega deployments.
- Hands on work with Angular and familiar with Azure environments
Preferred
- Experience leading Pega modernization, upgrades, or platform stabilization initiatives.
- Financial services or other regulated industry experience.
- Background as a senior engineer, architect, or platform lead prior to people leadership.
Leadership Competencies
- Strategic thinking with strong execution discipline
- Deep technical credibility, especially in Pega platforms
- Inclusive people leadership and coaching mindset
- Ability to influence without authority
- Clear, executive‑level communication
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