Senior Manager, Data Science - FCRM Modeling

Work Location:

New York, New York, United States of America

Hours:

40

Pay Details:

$123,050 - $201,170 USD

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.

Line of Business:

Analytics, Insights, & Artificial Intelligence

Job Description:

ATTENTION:

This role is not eligible for TD work visa support or sponsorship (e.g., H-1B, F-1 OPT/STEM OPT, TN or other work visa authorizations).  Applicants must be either a US Citizen or have a US Resident Green Card authorization, without current or future need for TD sponsorship . 

Job Description:

The Senior Manager, Data Science leads a specialized team of data professionals varying in size and complexity that are responsible for aiding to drive changes and improvement in business practices through data science. This role manages the overall data scientist team or function for a key business which may include Modelers and/or Data Scientist roles. This role may also oversee the development of data models, data mining and analytic solutions.

Department Overview:

The US Financial Crime Risk Modeling & Advanced Analytics team within US Financial Crime department is responsible for developing, maintaining, and enhancing the Enterprise Anti-Money Laundering / Counter-Terrorism Financing (AML/CTF) models/AI solutions to comply with regulatory requirements/changes and internal policies, support TD's global AML/CTF strategies, and address emerging risks, in accordance with best industry practice.

We are seeking a Data Science Senior Manager to join us to innovate, drive, and support innovation initiatives and business as usual operations in across the FCRM areas including, but not limited to, customer rating, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, emerging risk, model performance monitoring, analytics, and reporting. This role will lead development of tools to improve risk detection of complex areas and enhance process efficiency in business operations across FCRM, leveraging the latest tools such as LLMs. They will also own interaction with key stakeholders and any applicable model lifecycle activities.

Depth & Scope:

• Provides people management leadership by hiring the best talent, setting goals, developing staff, managing employee performance and compensation decisions, promoting teamwork and handling any/all disciplinary actions, as required
• Oversees and leads a large and/or highly complex and diverse analytical function for an area of significant risk, complexity or scope
• Strategic partner to leadership team on the management of the portfolio and financials, with deep industry, external/internal, enterprise knowledge, recognizing and anticipating emerging trends and identifying operational efficiencies and opportunities with other business management/enterprise areas
• Facilitates key strategic discussions and provides thought leadership to executive audience (output may include strategic roadmap and/or deliverables/frameworks/short to long term goals etc.)
• Sets operational team direction and collaborates with others to execute on common goals
• Focuses on longer range planning for functional area (e.g. 12 months or greater)

Education & Experience:

• Undergraduate degree or advanced technical degree preferred (e.g., math, physics, engineering, finance or computer science) Graduate's degree preferred with either progressive project work experience, or;
• 7+ year of relevant experience; higher degree education and research tenure can be counted

Preferred Skills:

• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience required; candidates with 5 years of highly relevant experience may also be considered.
• Demonstrated experience leading data science, analytics, or innovation initiatives for enterprise-scale solutions in production environments.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, or equivalent programming languages.
• Experience in financial crimes, compliance risk analytics, model risk, or related risk management domains.
• Strong understanding of large language models (LLMs), machine learning, and quantitative risk analysis.
• Experience optimizing, testing, and tuning AML/CTF solutions.
• Experience developing dashboards, web applications, or other user-facing analytical tools.
• Proven experience managing teams and collaborating effectively across cross-functional stakeholders.

Customer Accountabilities:

• Leads team of Data Scientists and provides day-to-day direction as needed
• Acts as People Manager and is responsible for ongoing coaching and development, setting objectives, assessing performance
• Works closely with business owners to identify opportunities and serves as an ambassador for data science
• Leads and oversees the design and delivery of enterprise analytic solutions for customers
• Works in a highly interactive, team-oriented environment with Big Data developers, and analytical experts
• Collaborates with business partners to shape and prioritize ad hoc analysis

Shareholder Accountabilities:

• Provides analytical thought leadership and stays current on developments in data mining and the application of data science
• Manages workload of data science team; assigning data request to staff based on skills and development needs
• Supports execution with excellence on key initiatives/programs
• Designs effective test and learns for various programs or scenarios
• Develops business specific plans; ensures work and resources are aligned to support objectives
• Identifies opportunities for business growth within a specific business or function by identifying potential use cases and value drivers
• Proactively supports the identification of issues, trends and opportunities, and brings forward recommendations based on judgment and facts
• Leads team to prepare framework to succinctly take complex data and translate it into clear and concise recommendations
• Ensures deep understanding and contributes to the achievement of the business strategy, goals, and objectives
• Ensures team adheres to enterprise frameworks and methodologies related to overall business management activities
• Leads relationships with corporate and/or control functions to ensure alignment with enterprise and/or regulatory requirements
• Supports team in staying knowledgeable on emerging issues, trends and evolving regulatory requirements and assesses potential impacts to the Bank
• Assesses/identifies key issues and escalates to appropriate levels and relevant stakeholders and business management where required
• Identifies, mitigates and reports on risk issues per enterprise policy/guidance and ensures appropriate escalation processes are followed
• Ensures business operations are in compliance with applicable internal and external requirements (e.g. financial controls, segregation of duties, transaction approvals and physical control of assets)
• Leads relationships with business lines / corporate and/or control functions to ensure alignment with enterprise and/or regulatory requirements
• Leads or contributes to cross-functional/enterprise initiatives as an organizational or subject matter expert helping to identify risk/provide guidance for complex situations
• Protects the interests of the organization – identifies and manages risks, and escalates non-standard, high-risk transactions/activities as necessary
• Manages oversight process, risk-based identification and monitoring of related risks and regulatory compliance across the supported functions, while ensuring key controls and processes are effectively managed
• Oversees or leads the facilitation and/or implementation of action/remediation plans to address performance/risk/governance issues
• Keeps abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assesses potential impacts
• Maintains a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite

Employee/Team Accountabilities:

• Cultivates and models the Colleague Promise to support colleague growth, and a culture of care; makes an impact at work and in our communities by leading with authenticity and supporting well-being to represent TD's brand
• Connects the alignment of colleague's contributions with the TD Shared Commitments 
• Builds and retains an engaged and diverse team that embraces diversity of thought, creativity and curiosity; where every colleague and customer are valued, respected, and listened to; committed to a common goal and collaborates to move with speed and get things done
• Demonstrates inclusive leadership by taking meaningful action with intention to support colleagues and customers across all dimensions of diversity, including those from underrepresented communities, being actively anti-racist, attracting and retaining diverse slate of candidates, nurturing mutual respect, inclusivity of thought and collaboration to drive successful results
• Sustains, identifies strong talent, recruits and develops a diverse talent pipeline of qualified workforce to innovate and maximize individual strengths to lead to a better business outcome
• Enables colleague growth by encouraging colleague development to achieve career and business objectives, ensuring timely feedback, motivating appreciation and recognition to all colleagues
• Enables a continuous learning culture by proactively seeking, listening to and actioning feedback from peers and from colleague listening opportunities to continuously improve the colleague experience and grow your personal leadership
• Fosters an environment that promotes sharing of knowledge, information, skills, and subject matter expertise among the team; ensures timely management and escalation of issues and creates opportunities to collaborate with other functions and team
• Leads team through change and creates an environment where teams feel psychologically safe to challenge current practices by modeling resiliency and flexibility, communicating a compelling vision with clarity and empowering colleagues to drive innovation
• Contributes to the development of business segment and/or enterprise functional strategic priorities within their operational area or field of specialty that drive results
• Develops annual and/or long-term plans for own area that are aligned with enterprise-wide priorities, reinforces a focus on results that align to One TD
• Fosters a high-performance culture by setting team targets and objectives, promotes and facilitates on-going feedback/coaching and conducting Quarterly Check-Ins for all colleagues to drive accountability and business results
• Manages employees in compliance with all human resources policies, procedures and guidelines of conduct

Physical Requirements:

Never: 0%; Occasional: 1-33%; Frequent: 34-66%; Continuous: 67-100%

• Domestic Travel – Occasional
• International Travel – Never
• Performing sedentary work – Continuous
• Performing multiple tasks – Continuous
• Operating standard office equipment - Continuous
• Responding quickly to sounds – Occasional
• Sitting – Continuous
• Standing – Occasional
• Walking – Occasional
• Moving safely in confined spaces – Occasional
• Lifting/Carrying (under 25 lbs.) – Occasional
• Lifting/Carrying (over 25 lbs.) – Never
• Squatting – Occasional
• Bending – Occasional
• Kneeling – Never
• Crawling – Never
• Climbing – Never
• Reaching overhead – Never
• Reaching forward – Occasional
• Pushing – Never
• Pulling – Never
• Twisting – Never
• Concentrating for long periods of time – Continuous
• Applying common sense to deal with problems involving standardized situations – Continuous
• Reading, writing and comprehending instructions – Continuous
• Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing – Continuous

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. The listed or specified responsibilities & duties are considered essential functions for ADA purposes.

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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.

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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

TD Bank is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

If you are an applicant with a disability and need accommodations to complete the application process, please email TD Bank US Workplace Accommodations Program at USWAPTDO@td.com.  Include your full name, best way to reach you and the accommodation needed to assist you with the applicant process.