Work Location:Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hours:37.5
Line of Business:Technology Solutions
Pay Details:$165,000 - $200,000 CAD
This role is eligible for a discretionary variable compensation award that considers business and individual performance.
Job Description:Global Transaction Banking (GTB) is a key growth business within TDS that provides the opportunity to make an impact with top-tier organizations. We offer innovative solutions and treasury advisory services on large and complex liquidity, payments, and trade finance needs. Business constantly changes with macroeconomic conditions, unprecedented levels of innovation, interest rate environments, and foreign exchange movements. As a result, all GTB business lines continue to evolve to provide optimum trade finance, liquidity, and payment solutions to clients.
Global Transaction Banking technology team focuses on delivering top-tier technology solutions to enable and grow the global GTB business.
SummaryTDS has embarked on a multi-year digital transformation of GTB to position the transaction bank as a leading North American multi-currency treasury provider, enabling significant business growth across the TDS franchise.
This role presents an opportunity to design and develop the building of the next-generation of GTB's transaction banking capabilities to (i) extend a highly successful GTB business into the US; and (ii) to future-proof business with a platform that can evolve at minimal cost as client and industry needs & expectations continue to evolve.
We are looking for a talented Data and Platform Architect to join the team to architect, design and oversee build of
Global Transaction Banking Data platform.
You are a senior leader who thrives in the technology space. You enjoy designing and building systems. You can chart the course, establish direction and see implementation to completion. You are obsessed with client outcomes and drive technological solutions to achieve them.
Responsibilities - Define, design and develop detailed architecture for Global Transaction Banking Data platform.
- Provide thought leadership on reference architecture and design patterns, and develop roadmaps
- Influence all stakeholders (business and technology) and ensure platform implementation is successful and meets architecture criteria.
- Ensure all architecture documents are kept up to date as the application evolves
- Maintain a sharp focus on system reliability and ensure overall architecture of the application can gracefully handle upstream and downstream system failures.
- Provide estimation of the work effort required to deliver the architecture solution
- Build and maintain solid, professional, working relationships with peers within the portfolio and business lines.
- Communicating effectively across diverse audiences, departments and levels
- Identify areas of technical debt and create strategies to prioritize and eliminate it.
- Work on own initiative without direction for most activities
- Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.
- Driving an Agile culture and mindset throughout the organization.
- Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
Required Skills A successful candidate will possess:
- Strong hands-on experience in coding commonly used languages like Java and Python
- Hands-on experience in architecting and delivering RESTful/GraphQL APIs using popular frameworks like Spring Boot.
- Extensive hands-on experience in Oracle/SQL, NoSQL - MongoDB and Neo4J
- Extensive experience in data modelling, including graph-based models
- Extensive experience in designing, developing, deploying and big data applications on platforms such as Apache Spark or Databricks.
- Extensive experience architecting and delivering Event-Driven Architectures and Systems - Kafka, Solace, MQ, Confluent
- Experience architecting and delivering stream compute bases systems, such as Apache Flink
- Experience with non-functional requirements such as security, performance, scalability, and optimization
- Experience working with large-scale distributed systems and modern backend architecture
- Good understanding of containerization technologies (ECS, Kubernetes, OpenShift etc.)
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
- Understanding of GenAI, LLMs to employ AI in architecture and coding practices
- Able to independently work in fast paced and rapidly changing environment
- Extensive experience in system analysis and design
- Experience working in an agile environment using Scrum methodologies
- Experience troubleshooting issues using different logging/monitoring tools - Splunk, Kibana, Dynatrace, Datadog etc.
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Experience in working in multiple cloud environments, preferably Microsoft Azure
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Education/Experience: - Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
- Master's degree preferred
- 7+ years of relevant experience
Nice to have - Cash Management/Transaction Banking experience
