Vice President, Emerging Technology & Automation

Work Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:

37.5

Line of Business:

Technology Solutions

Pay Details:

$185,000 - $275,000 CAD

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Job Description:

TD is seeking a transformational technology leader to build and scale its Emerging Technology & Automation function at a pivotal moment in the industry's evolution. Reporting into senior leadership within Protect, this role will shape how AI, automation, and emerging technologies are responsibly adopted across the enterprise, balancing innovation with robust governance, cybersecurity, and risk management. The successful candidate will influence enterprise strategy, engage with executive leadership, regulators, and industry partners, and leave a lasting impact on how TD harnesses technology to create competitive advantage.

Accountabilities

• Define and execute the enterprise strategy, vision, and multi-year roadmap for Emerging Technology and Automation and Artificial Intelligence capabilities, ensuring alignment with Protect Platform priorities, technology strategy, risk appetite, and business objectives.
• Own the governance, operating model, and strategic direction of the Emerging Technology and Automation function, including oversight of operational effectiveness, resource allocation, delivery performance, and sustainable capability growth.
• Establish and lead enterprise frameworks for identifying, assessing, prioritizing, and onboarding Emerging Technology and automation use cases, ensuring initiatives are aligned to business value, security requirements, and regulatory expectations.
• Drive strategic alignment across lines of business, technology, security, risk, and control functions to establish integrated priorities, investment decisions, and measurable business outcomes.
• Own the Technology and Cyber Control Library governance framework, including control lifecycle management, rationalization, standardization, and alignment to enterprise policies, regulatory requirements, and risk management objectives.
• Lead the modernization, implementation, and automation strategy for business controls testing, establishing prioritization frameworks, transformation roadmaps, and scalable testing capabilities that improve efficiency, consistency, and control effectiveness across the enterprise.
• Establish enterprise KPI, KRI, and maturity frameworks to measure operational performance, control effectiveness, adoption, automation outcomes, and strategic progress, providing actionable insights to executive leadership.
• Develop and oversee Target Operating Models, governance structures, interaction models, accountability frameworks, and RASCIs to support effective execution and long-term sustainability of Emerging Technology and AI capabilities.
• Serve as the executive sponsor and primary point of accountability for internal audits, regulatory examinations, and independent reviews related to Emerging Technology, automation, AI and associated governance and controls programs.
• Oversee the transition of emerging capabilities into business-as-usual ownership models, ensuring operational readiness, governance maturity, risk management integration, and successful adoption across the organization.
• Represent Protect and TD within industry forums, academic partnerships, regulatory discussions, and strategic industry engagements to identify emerging trends, risks, and innovation opportunities.
• Provide executive leadership and talent stewardship for a team of high-performing technology risk, governance, and emerging technology professionals, developing future leaders and fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and execution excellence.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, providing strategic guidance on Emerging Technology and Automation
• Deliver executive communications, reporting, and recommendations to senior leadership and governance committees
• Champion enterprise adoption of Emerging Technology, Automation and AI capabilities while ensuring that innovation is implemented through a disciplined governance, controls, and risk management framework.

Key Metrics

• Delivery against multi-year Emerging Technology roadmap milestones.
• Reduction in control duplication and improved reuse of testing outputs across programs.
• Increased automation of business controls testing and improved cycle time / efficiency of control assessment activities.
• Improved control library completeness, quality, ownership clarity and alignment to risk appetite, standards and regulatory expectations.
• KPI / KRI performance for operational effectiveness, control efficacy, adoption and value realization.

Key Qualifications & Capabilities

• University and/or post-graduate degree.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in technology, cyber security, technology risk, controls governance, AI / Emerging Technology, engineering, operations or enterprise transformation, including senior leadership roles in complex matrix environments.
• Proven experience defining and executing enterprise strategy and roadmaps for technology, AI, Emerging Technology or controls modernization capabilities.
• Deep expertise in cyber and technology controls, control testing, governance, risk management, audit, regulatory engagement and control library lifecycle management
• Demonstrated experience leading automation, process modernization and operating model transformation across enterprise-scale functions.
• Strong ability to translate complex technology and risk concepts into executive-level decisions, prioritized roadmaps and measurable outcomes.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders across business, technology, risk, audit, legal, compliance, regulators and external partners.
• Proven people leadership with experience building, developing and sustaining high-performing, multi-disciplinary teams.
• Collaborative, strategic and outcomes-oriented leader with strong judgment, credibility and ability to operate in a dynamic regulatory and expense management environment.

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
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We look forward to hearing from you!

Language Requirement (Quebec only):

Sans Objet