Director, Agile Practice Lead

Work Location:

New York, New York, United States of America

Hours:

40

Line of Business:

Enterprise Enabling Functions

Pay Detail:

$190,000 - $225,000 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. 

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Job Description:

Job Summary

Defines standards, builds capability, and ensures consistent, high‑quality Agile execution across organization

Key Responsibilities

• Own the Agile operating model, standards, playbooks, and tooling strategy (with portfolio management team)
• Ensure alignment to industry scaled frameworks
• Build, mentor, and performance‑manage Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters
• Define career paths, role expectations, and learning curriculums for Agile roles
• Ensure teams apply Agile correctly and consistently without adding bureaucracy
• Partner with Product, Technology, Portfolio, and Risk to resolve execution friction
• Establish outcome‑focused metrics (flow, predictability, quality, value realization)
• Act as senior advisor to executives on Agile adoption and scaling
• Partner with Product leadership on product-centric ways of working
• Partner with Portfolio Management on capacity, funding models, and prioritization

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive financial services experience across agile, change management, transformation, strategy, portfolio, and/or regulatory teams
• Proven experience supporting product‑led, agile, or technology‑driven transformations
• Deep hands‑on experience with scaling Agile as Practice Lead or Agile Coach
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems in ambiguous environments
• Proven success leading cross‑domain, enterprise‑scale initiatives, balancing business priorities, financial rigor, and technology execution.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to operate effectively with senior leadership.
• Fosters an inclusive team culture where all colleagues feel safe

Education & Experience

• Undergraduate degree
• 10+ years of related experience
• Expert knowledge of financial services/capital markets from a strategic perspective, including managing/directing teams and projects
• Agile certifications are required

The Agile Practice Lead is accountable for building, maintaining and evolving the culture and community of Agile Practitioners. The role oversees a team of Agile practitioners, and is responsible for coaching on knowledge, skills and performance, building and evolving the Practice's capabilities, and advising practitioners on their work to ensure solutions are sound.

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
• Recognized as an Agile expert whose focus is on the coaching and training of practitioners
• People leader with expert knowledge of Agile disciplines and practices ​
• Deep expertise and knowledge of TD frameworks and Agile methodology, tools, best practices, processes and procedures, as well as broader organization issues​
• Proven ability in managing large teams
• Provides guidance on the work of practitioners as related to the quality of product(s)/work being produced, delivered & speed of delivery / to market​
• Ability to provide guidance and oversight to multiple teams, growing capability across the organization
• Quickly adapts to customer, stakeholder and regulatory needs in collaboration with Platform and Journey teams​
• Experienced in the continuous assessment of Practitioners and their craft to ensure enterprise practice standards are upheld​
• Provides leadership and guidance to several teams and solves cross-department issues; 
• Participates in the development of