Work Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:

37.5

Line of Business:

Technology Solutions

Pay Details:

$115,000 - $140,000 CADThis 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:

*PRE-IDENTIFIED CANDIDATE*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 Lead Platform Engineer that will work on innovative and transformational initiatives at TD Securities -- the implementation of the next generation Trading Risk Warehouse platform. The successful candidate will be responsible for the design and development of a scalable, resilient and high performing PnL (Profit and Loss) reporting platform that will be used by Risk Analysts, 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

• Lead the platform team to build and maintain a high performing platform and ensure the platform meets the need of business, providing stability, reliability, security and scalability.

• 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 TRW ecosystem.

• Find ways to optimize platform and address system bottlenecks.

• Ability to analyze 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 to support their needs, troubleshoot issues and enhance the platform.

• Ability to manage and guide platform team and deliver tangible results.

Qualifications & Skills

• Proficient in programming skills for automation: Unix shell scripting, python or other programming language

• Networking and Linux administration

• SQL

• DevOps CICD/ tools/GIT/Jenkins

• Monitoring and logging tools

• Hadoop Cluster/spark/hive system administration.

• Cloud platform experience is a plus

• Great communication and problem-solving skills.

• People management skills.

Technical Skills

• 10+ years technical leadership experience in leading platform engineering team and managing large scale and mission critical platform.

• Experience in leading and completing large scale platform migration initiative.

• Strong experience with managing Hadoop platform including HDFS, Spark and Hive

• 8+ years' experience in Linux system administration.

• Experience in managing web and service/API platform.

• 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).

• 6+ years of experience managing Git, CI/CD toolset (Maven), Jenkins, working within an Agile environment

• Experience in implementing and managing system monitoring tools.

• 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.

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 market risk and/or PnL (profit and loss) reporting.

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