Senior Manager, Data Science - FCRM Modeling

Work Location

New York, New York, United States of America

40

$123,050 - $201,170 USD

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Analytics, Insights, & Artificial Intelligence

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.

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.

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 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.

• 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)

• 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

• 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.

• Leads team of Data Scientists and provides day-to-day direction as needed
• Acts as People Manager and is responsible for ongoing coaching and…