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TD Bank Sr. Data Platform Lead in Toronto, Ontario

Work Location :

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:

0

Line of Business:

Technology Solutions

Pay Details:

We’re committed to providing fair and equitable compensation to all our colleagues. As a candidate, we encourage you to have an open dialogue with a member of our HR Team and ask compensation related questions, including pay details for this role.

Job Description:

Department Overview

Building a World-Class, Diverse and Inclusive Technology Team at TD

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.

Technology Solutions is responsible for the development, implementation and support of trading and operational systems at TD Securities. We support these applications for Front Office, Operations, Middle Office, Market Risk, Credit Management and downstream systems in Enterprise Technology Solutions.

TD Securities provides a wide range of capital market products and services to corporate, government and institutional clients in five key business areas: Investment Banking, Debt Capital Markets, Foreign Exchange, Institutional Equities and Private Equity. TD Securities is the wholesale banking arm of TD Bank Financial Group, one of Canada’s largest financial institutions and a global leader in on-line financial services.

Data Platform and Analytics: Velocity Team

At the Velocity team, we are dedicated to driving change with speed and precision, striving to revolutionize the way data is consumed and managed.

We are currently seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer (L10) as an individual contributor to join our expanding team of Engineers within the Data Platform and Analytics (Velocity) team. The successful candidate will be working towards transitioning an existing IaaS data infrastructure to a cloud native PaaS platform.

There's room to grow in all of it.

Job Description:

About This Role

Meaningful work is fueled by meaningful performance and career development conversations with your manager. Here's some of what you may be asked to perform:

  • Experience in operating and designing and operating a data platform from ingestion to consumption.

  • Ability to write scripts to contribute to a data mesh component.

  • Ability to craft a back-end that can test and self-serve capabilities offered by Azure.

  • Ability to research work arounds if needed to facilitate a data platform.

  • Design/Research/Implement required process components to enable TD Azure functionalities (i.e. Unity Catalog, Azure Purview ..)

  • Experience with 3rd party vendors is a plus (i.e. Dremio / Confluent Kafka)

  • Exceptional communication skills and ability to coordinate and liaison with multiple parties involved to align to strategic data platform and execution of needed components.

  • Ability to create Architectural diagrams with networking focus and system design.

  • Experience in PaaS offerings from Azure / GCP / Databricks

  • Must be able to lead complex projects and competing priorities with a high level of technical acumen and strong communication skills

  • You'll also analyze all platform level changes, monitor application impact, and provide appropriate technical solutions to resolve all issues quickly and efficiently

  • Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management

  • Achieves product commitments (and influences others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills and contributes to or led technology communities

  • Uses automation, system tools, open-source solutions, observability and 'security first' principles in daily work

  • Contributes to team agile ceremonies, leads demos and presentations, helps new engineers learn established norms

  • Initiates high level solution design approaches, and guides team to achieve desired key software delivery capabilities using automated, coded enterprise and observability

  • Participates in internal speaking and advocacy events

  • Supports research activities to adopt new technology solutions in ways of developing new capabilities

Job Requirements :

What can you bring to TD? Share your credentials, but your relevant experience and knowledge can be just as likely to get our attention. It helps if you have:

Education/Accreditations:

  • Undergraduate Degree in Engineering or Technical Certificate.

Qualifications/Skills/Experience

  • 8+ years relevant experience.

  • Experience with Big Data Tools: (HDFS/SPARK/YARN/DREMIO/KAFKA/Azure PaaS)

  • Expert knowledge one or many of the follow (Java, Python, JavaScript)

  • Expert knowledge of PaaS offerings from Azure (i.e. Unity Catalog, Databrick suite)

  • Thought leadership and/or industry knowledge specific (but not limited to) your own area of expertise.

  • Willingness and strength in providing guidance and influencing multiple teams across a broad spectrum of initiatives and functional domains.

  • Experience working on Agile Teams

Desired Interpersonal Skills

  • Takes great personal pride in building robust software

  • Strong sense of ownership

  • Passionate about programming and computer science

  • Enjoys working in a fast-paced environment

  • Has excellent written and verbal communication skills

  • Has strong customer focus

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.

#LI-Hybrid

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 (http://www.td.com/ca/en/about-td/who-we-are/benefits-of-working-at-td)

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:

N/A.

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