Public Cloud Architect - Identity & Access Management
Cowen
Work Location:
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaHours:
37.5Line of Business:
Technology SolutionsPay Details:
$136,000 - $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:
Overview
We are seeking a seasoned Cloud platform architect to lead the architecture and design of our global scalable and secure public cloud platforms across Azure, GCP, and AWS. This role has a specific focus on identity and access management platforms and solutions and service enablement across our public cloud environments. This role is instrumental in driving our modernization efforts for secrets management, federated identity, privileged access, and service-to-service authentication — with deep engagement across Azure, GCP, AWS, and integration within our DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines.
The ideal candidate is both a strategic leader and a hands-on technical expert, capable of working across organizational boundaries to define architectural vision, influence engineering direction, and leading delivery of secure IAM patterns that scale with the business.
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Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Strategy
• Define and evolve the enterprise IAM architecture, ensuring alignment with cloud-native principles and security best practices.
• Lead the unification of access models across Azure, AWS, GCP, and on-prem environments through federated identity and workload identity federation.
• Design and document scalable patterns for JIT privileged access, PAM, Cloud service access, and cross-platform access control.
• Own the architectural vision for Cloud IAM Services, including Entra ID, Google Cloud Identity, AWS IAM, MFA, and HashiCorp Vault.
• Collaborate with other platform Architects to define a holistic Cloud Platform architecture vision and roadmap
• Evaluate new platform integration and feature requests to determine feasibility and align to an applicable design, and work with product owners to plan the required work effort.
• Assist the Cloud IAM Engineering team with design support for the creation of reusable code modules for service account lifecycle management, federated identity binding, and fine-grained role delegation across platforms.
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Required Skills & Experience
• 10+ years relevant experience in IT platform design and architecture, including the following
• Cloud Platforms: GCP (Workload Identity Federation, IAM, Google Identity), Azure (Entra ID, Federated Identity Credentials, PIM)
• Secrets Management: HashiCorp Vault (Auth methods, dynamic secrets, DR replication, VM cert-based auth)
• CI/CD & Dev Workflows: GitHub Actions, GitHub OIDC, developer onboarding pipelines
• Authentication & Access Control: OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, RBAC/ABAC, workload identity, SAML, SCIM
• Identity Platforms: Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), Google Identity, CyberArk (for dual control super admin access)
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible (modular IAM patterns, role bindings, etc)
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Qualifications
• Undergraduate degree or Technical Certificate (Graduate degree preferred)
• Public Cloud Certifications (AWS, GCP, or Azure) are required
• Identity and Access Management or other relevant security certifications are preferred
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Nice to Have
• Experience with service mesh integration for identity-aware routing and zero trust
• Familiarity with Privileged Access Workstations (PAWs) and Conditional Access enforcement
• Background in securing network perimeter access and integrating firewalls with API gateway architectures
• Experience working with compliance, risk, and audit teams to align IAM strategies with controls
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
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We look forward to hearing from you!
Language Requirement (Quebec only):
Sans Objet