Sr. Platform Engineer, TD Securities

Work Location:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:
37.5

Line of Business:
Technology Solutions

Pay Details:
$126,800 - $164,100 CAD

This role is eligible for a discretionary variable compensation award that considers business and individual performance.

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:

Department Overview

TD Securities offers a wide range of capital markets products and services to corporate, government, and institutional clients who choose us for our innovation, execution, and experience.

With more than 6,500 professionals operating out of 40 cities across the globe, we help clients meet their needs today and prepare for tomorrow. Our services include underwriting and distributing new issues, providing trusted advice and industry-leading insight, extending access to global markets, and delivering integrated transaction banking solutions.

We are growth-oriented, people-focused, and community-minded. As a team, we work to deliver value for our clients every day.

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Hands-on Sr. Platform Engineer that will work on innovative and transformational initiatives at TD Securities -- the implementation of the next generation Market Operations workflow platform.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the design and development of a scalable, resilient and high performing workflow platform that will be used by Market Operations Business Support team, Front Office Traders, and Senior Executives. This is a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies to solve problems of scale and speed.

As a lead platform engineer, you will be working on leading platform engineering team to pinpoint the system bottleneck, providing tangible solutions quickly to resolve platform issues, automating platform maintenance tasks as well as demonstrating a strong technical leadership to ensure the quality of deliverables in a timely manner.

Responsibilities

• Leads the creation of a comprehensive end-to-end detailed solution with overall accountability for the technical design and delivery of the System Design Specification and is largely focused on large-scale, complex or enterprise projects.
• Responsible for developing and documenting detailed solution design and act as an application SME through the design and development lifecycle ensuring alignment with Architecture
• Lead the team to deliver high quality software and help business to run their business efficiently.
• Lead the team to manage multiple streams of work such as Projects, Currency, Support etc. and follow proper code promotion process.
• Build and maintain a high performing platform and ensure the platform meets the need of business, providing stability, reliability, security and scalability.
• Conduct Design Review and Code Review processes to ensure quality of software.
• Ability to reverse engineer legacy codes, find ways to optimize codes and address system bottleneck.
• Manage underlying infrastructure, including hardware, software and storage resources.
• Manage multiple environments (Prod/Pre-Prod/Lower environments) and ensure the integration and stability of environments.
• Streamline code promotion process and providing ways to improve developer productivity.
• Ensure the stability of platform and Market Operations ecosystem.
• Find ways to optimize platform and address system bottlenecks.
• Lead the analysis of system issues and provide a solution to resolve the issue permanently.
• Promote the best practices and follow the continuous integration and delivery.
• Drive transformation by continuously looking for ways to automate existing processes and workflows.
• Explore new capabilities and technologies to drive innovation.
• Work closely with development and production operation teams, lead incident resolution to troubleshoot issues and enhance the platform.
• Lead, Inspire and Mentor team members on the use of Software Development best practices and Agile practices.
• Leadership skills to lead business projects, platform continuous improvements and support.
• Support knowledge management processes and ensure knowledge monitored, tracked and managed

Desired Skillsets:

• Java 11+/J2EE
• Cloud Platform experience (GCP/Azure/AWS)
• Spring Boot/React/Rest API/ Spring Security (OAuth, LDAP)
• MS SQL Server and No SQL database
• GitHub Workflows/Actions.
• Linux
• Proficient in programming skills for automation: Unix shell scripting, python or other programming language
• Networking and Linux administration
• DevOps tools/CICD
• Monitoring and logging tools
• Experience with IBM/Rabbit MQ, Confluent Kafka is needed.
• Knowledge of SSO, MFA, PingFed, OIDC, OAuth.
• Maven, Jenkins, Gradle, and Nexus.
• Great communication and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent collaboration skills as well as the ability to work efficiently under minimum supervision.

Qualifications and Skills

The successful candidate will demonstrate skills in several distinct areas including

Technical Skills

• Experience in large scale platform migration initiative.
• 10+ technical leadership experience in leading engineering team delivering large scale and mission critical projects.
• 3+ years of React, Redux experience
• 8+ years of Java/J2EE experience
• 8+ years of experience in the Spring tech stack and building microservices using Spring Boot
• 3+ years of experience in Cloud Platform (GCP/Azure/AWS)
• Excellent experience in Microservices Design Pattern
• 3+ years of experience in Scala/Spark.
• Strong experience in Linux environment.
• Experience in managing web and service/API platform.
• Experience in designing and integrating with REST APIs.
• Experience working with messaging technologies (e.g. Kafka)
• Experience with RDBMS, demonstrable fluency in SQL and any non-relational db. such as Cassandra (is preferred).
• Experience of Git, CI/CD toolset (Maven), Jenkins, working within an Agile environment
• Understanding on best practices and design patterns.
• Experience developing and managing highly scalable and low latency systems.
• A passion for bringing best products to the customer, simplifying and automating work, for making things better, for being efficient and helping others.
• Experience in implementing and managing system monitoring tools (Splunk, Dynatrace etc.).
• A passion for bringing best products to the customer, simplifying and automating work, for making things better, for being efficient and helping others.

Business Skills

• Good communication skills. Experience in collaborating efficiently within a global team.
• Demonstrable experience working in a fast-paced environment, working with Engineers, BSA/QA, PMs and our business sponsors.
• Nice to have - Hands-on experience with Global Equity Derivatives.

Additional Information

Join in on what others in TD Technology Solutions are doing:

• Inspire a positive work environment and help champion quality, innovation, teamwork and service to the business.
• Learn voraciously, stretch your thinking, share your knowledge and educate others.
• Communicate and collaborate with both technical and non-technical professionals.
• Cultivate winning relationships by building trust with business and technology partners.
• Share our commitment to productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency.

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Who We Are:

TD Securities offers a wide range of capital markets products and services to corporate, government, and institutional clients who choose us for our innovation, execution, and experience. With more than 6,500 professionals operating out of 40 cities across the globe, we help clients meet their needs today and prepare for tomorrow. Our services include underwriting and distributing new issues, providing trusted advice and industry-leading insight, extending access to global markets, and delivering integrated transaction banking solutions. In 2023, we acquired Cowen Inc., offering our clients access to a premier U.S. equities business and highly-diverse equity research franchise, while growing our strong, diversified investment bank. We are growth-oriented, people-focused, and community-minded. As a team, we work to deliver value for our clients every day.

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
Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if you'd like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Language Requirement (Quebec only):
Sans Objet