Technology Lead Post-Trade , Depository & Digital Market Infrastructure - TMX GROUP

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The TMX group of companies includes leading global exchanges such as the Toronto Stock Exchange, Montreal Exchange, and numerous innovative organizations enhancing capital markets. United as a global team, we’re connecting cross-functionally, traversing industries and geographies, moving opportunity into action, advancing global economic growth, and propelling progress. Through a rich exchange of ideas, meaningful collaboration, and a nimble operating model, we're powering some of the nation's most critical systems, fueling capital formation and innovation, bringing increased opportunity to business visionaries, product ingenuity to consumers, and career exploration to our team.

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Supporting TMX's vision as a technology-driven solutions provider, Global Technology Services (GTS) delivers information technology, vendor management, innovation, data management & analytics, and project management services across the organization.The Technology Lead Post-Trade , Depository & Digital Market Infrastructure leads the technology engineering, delivery, and ongoing support for The Canadian Depository for Securities (CDS) and TMX Post Trade Innovations (PTI), including the core CDSX platform and its supporting applications. In addition, this leader defines and executes the multi-year CDS technology and market-infrastructure modernization strategy. This pivotal role positions CDS as a peer-leading central securities depository, clearing, and settlement utility across settlement efficiency, asset servicing, collateral/liquidity services, client connectivity, operational resilience, data, AI, and digital assets.A core part of the mandate is to enable CDS capabilities for tokenized securities, DLT-enabled settlement models, smart-contract-enabled workflows, digital custody/key management, interoperability with existing CDSX and post-trade platforms, and the regulatory controls required to preserve settlement finality, privacy, asset servicing and operational resilience.

This role reports to: Head of Technology, Markets & Post Trade

Job Location: Hybrid (2-3 days in office) - based in Toronto, ON.

Key Accountabilities:

Portfolio Leadership & Strategic Delivery

• Strategic Technology Direction: Provide leadership across all technical aspects of CDS and PTI, evaluating enterprise-wide problems across TMX business units and executing multi-year platform evolution strategies.
• Digital Market Infrastructure Strategy: Define and execute the CDS technology strategy for digital securities and tokenized assets, including DLT-enabled settlement, token lifecycle management, smart-contract governance, digital custody/key-management models, privacy/confidentiality, participant identity, entitlement management, corporate actions, and integration with existing CSD books of record.