Work Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:

37.5

Line of Business:

Technology Solutions

Pay Details:

$145,000 - $180,000 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:

Department Overview :

Building a World-Class, Diverse and Inclusive Technology Team

We can't afford to be boring. Neither can you. The scale and scope of what TD does may surprise you. The rapid pace of change makes it a business imperative for us to be smart and open-minded in the way we think about technology. TD's technology and business teams become more intertwined as new opportunities present themselves. This new era in banking does not equal boring. Not at TD, anyway.

Our mission in the Equity Derivatives Technology team is to provide best in class solutions and support to the front office and many downstream partners. We use a mixture of proprietary and bespoke tech to provide timely solutions to the business.

There's room to grow in all of it.

Team Overview

The Liquidity Risk Technology group at TD Securities is seeking a business facing technical leader at the Director level, to build the next generation of risk computation platforms. The core mission of the applications we build is to help the firm quantify, understand, and reduce our external total exposure in case of adverse market conditions. We operate within a modern and complex area of finance, operating with sophisticated computational models, supporting billions of calculations daily and leveraging Big Data storage for analytics and data distribution.

Responsibilities

Working closely with our business partners across trading, finance and risk management the successful candidate will own the following responsibilities:

• Architect our risk applications in line with microservices patterns, distributed caching, and stream processing with a view to scale to hundreds of billions of computations daily

• Manage a team of 5+ Developers working primarily in Java

• Develop an organization supporting the growth plans for the Front-Office as well as aligning with Risk Management and Finance risk, control and regulatory reporting requirements

• Develop and execute on a large-scale Data strategy for the group (including ingestion, reporting and dashboarding)

• Develop tooling and processes to enhance the efficiency of the team

The successful candidate should also demonstrate a strong affinity with the following:

• Work collaboratively with technical and non-technical teams at TD to solve business and technology challenges

• Provide technical leadership to the group and beyond, adopt a scalability and stability-first approach to design and implementation

• Adopt a client-centric approach in support of our business growth models

• Leverage industry standard DevOps practices and tooling for CI/CD, TDD and build tools

• Partner with product SME's, Treasury, and Risk Management stakeholders to develop a strategic analytics platform to optimize the dealer and enterprise's funding & liquidity needs

• Act as product manager and champion for the platform's analytics and end-user experience

• Complete in-depth analysis on trades and products across TDS and their overall impact on the dealer's funding and liquidity position

• Drive and facilitate data on-boarding from source systems onto the target solution

• Provide end-to-end test case development for developers and end-users

Development Opportunities

This challenging role provides the candidate with the following career growth opportunities:

• Contribute to the technical direction the future versions of our risk platform

• Develop a deep understanding of securities pricing and risk across different asset classes

• Work in a dynamic environment with direct engagement to global stakeholders

Technical Skills

• 10+ years of technical leadership experience with direct people management responsibilities

• Demonstrable architecture experience, with a focus on the design of large-scale distributed risk engines (liquidity risk, market risk or counterparty credit risk)

• Demonstrable experience managing teams developing components in Java

• Experience of NoSQL databases, Hadoop, distributed caching (Redis preferable), Big Data streaming technologies (Flink, Kafka Streams, Spring Cloud Stream), experience with RDBMS packages, demonstrable fluency in SQL, messaging (Kafka)

• Experience of Azure (preferable) or AWS, Google Cloud

• Experience of git, CI/CD toolset (Maven, Gradle), Jenkins, working within an Agile environment

• Knowledge of the following would be a plus: Scala, Angular, React, Excel integration, ELK, TypeScript

• Develop business and technical documentation to be implemented by development teams

• Lead in business analysis to address cross-regional requirements

• Oversee and/or execute test scripts within the testing environment, ensuring defects are logged, and documented for Developer corrections

• Establish and/or and follow established testing procedures, standards and processes

• Provide expert knowledge of testing to projects in which QA is engaged/required

• Lead in knowledge transfer within the team, and business units globally

• Sound technical knowledge and analytical skills

Essential:

• SQL or other database experience

• API (REST, GraphQL) experience

• Jira, Bitbucket, Git, Collaborate experience

• Experience designing wireframes, database and API schemas, testing with ETL tools

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with JavaScript or other scripting languages

• Experience working with Kafka, ProtoBuf, Spark, Hadoop services

• Have worked in an agile environment and familiarity with scrum ceremonies

Non-Technical Skills

• Experience in working within a global team

• Strong communication skills

• Demonstrable experience working in a fast-paced environment, and supportive of flexible goals aligned with business priorities

• Demonstrable track record in delivering for the stakeholders within a Capital Markets setting

• Knowledge of derivatives pricing and capital markets is a strong plus

• Support a positive work environment that promotes customer service, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest

Essential:

• Hands-on expertise with data analytics

• Knowledge of liquidity and collateral management and regulations, including collateral monitoring, stress tests, forecast requirements

Nice to have:

• Trading platform expertise with both in-house and vendor systems

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.

• Embrace change and witness amazing things happen – from the inside.

#LI-Tech

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