Work Location:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hours:
37.5
Line of Business:
Technology Solutions
Pay Details:
$81,600 - $115,200 CAD
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Job Description:
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.
Within TD Technology, the Treasury Analytics Group (TAG) is dedicated to support the Treasury and Balance Sheet Management (TBSM) department in measuring and managing liquidity and market risk (interest rate, equity, and foreign exchange) for the Bank's investment portfolio, both in Canada and the US. TAG creates models, financial systems, applications, and processes required to support various functional teams in TBSM including FO Investments, Liquidity Risk Management (both Retail and Wholesale), Non-Trading Market Risk and Cash Management.
As regulators and the industry significantly ratchet up the focus and investment in Liquidity Reporting, this opportunity provides the one with the ability to be in at the ground level and to help lead and architect the bank wide TD Wholesale Liquidity program forward. This team operates like a small tech company within a large financial institution. The ideal candidate is an engineer passionate about all things technology and resilient, scalable & stable applications.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
We are looking for someone armed with a strong tool-kit to develop and maintain technical solutions that adhere to engineering and architectural design principles while meeting business requirements. You’ll be a technology owner providing technical expertise with a focus on efficiency, reliability, scalability, and security which includes planning, evaluating, designing, operationalizing, and supporting solutions in compliance with enterprise and industry standards. The ideal candidate is willing, and able to research, maintain, configure, administer, and provision infrastructure, applications, and services across our platforms.
- Understand architecture diagrams and provide input into application design
- Perform systems administration: monitor, configure, back-up, authenticate, tune, maintain, install, script, monitor applications, services, and systems.
- Script installs and stand up infrastructure in both private/public Cloud
- Identify issues, develop, and maintain processes that address and resolve them, (and be sure to communicate/alert stakeholders as needed).
- Design, implement and maintain an automated build and install/deploy process; develop and maintain build scripts of projects and/or products.
- Perform Release Engineering functions for either cloud or non-cloud services, products and platforms
- Ensure effective change management (using ServiceNow).
- Give specialized support (like research, installation, configuration, L3 support) and meets or exceeds established standards/service levels, while minimizing operational risk.
- Design, review, integrate infrastructure and application requirements (non-functional, security, integration, performance, quality, operations etc.).
- ·Build/deploy base infrastructure components (e.g. Azure capabilities including Virtual Machines, ASE, AKS, Blob storage, geo-replication, databricks, etc.) and application services for all environments. Help evolve the base infrastructure and operational environment, deploy new technologies in Azure and other cloud providers.
- Maintain base infrastructure components, work with vendors (Azure) to report problems, and receive fixes.
- Create and document disaster and business recovery plans and procedures.
- Gain knowledge of TD services, applications, infrastructure, analytical tools and techniques, industry trend
CUSTOMER
- Leverage deep technology expertise for own area of specialization to deliver and ensure that all areas across the organization that provision, manage and support various technologies have the necessary tools, processes and documentation required to effectively execute on their respective mandates
- Execute on Engineering strategy as it relates to the introduction of tools and the automation of build, test, release and configure activities across Application, Platform and Infrastructure
- Partner with the Operations team to automatically integrate with appropriate tools and processes as part of automated/self-serve Application, Platform or Infrastructure releases
- Work with partners across Technology and apply in-depth understanding of relevant business needs to identify and leverage synergies across the various areas
- Act as the expert or lead innovator and agent of change for the programs and services under management
- Work with other teams to implement best practices for engineering and management
- Work with vendor platform providers and engineering peers to keep abreast of trends, products, frameworks, and applications
- Identify and effectively manage stakeholder engagement and impacts across the enterprise
- Interpret client needs, assess engineering related requirements and identify solutions to non-standard requests
SHAREHOLDER
- Apply best practices and knowledge of internal / external business issues to improve products or services in own discipline
- Monitor and control costs within own work
- May interact with governance and control groups, (e.g. regulatory / operational risk, compliance and audit) to provide subject matter expertise and consult on risk issues / items related to Engineering technology and tools
- May develop and/or contribute to negotiations of third party contracts/agreements
- Maintain knowledge and understanding of external development, engineering and emerging solutions, market conditions and their impact
- Proactively identify emerging technologies and innovative solutions for building more robust platform domains
EMPLOYEE / TEAM
- Continuously enhance knowledge/expertise in own area and keep current with emerging industry trends, new technologies and best practices in the external market that can contribute to delivering effective client solutions
- Prioritize and manage own workload in order to deliver quality results and meet timelines
- Support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest
- Participate in knowledge transfer with senior management, the team, other technical areas and business units
- Work effectively as a team, supporting other members of the team in achieving business objectives and providing client services
- Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency of the business unit and/or team
BREADTH & DEPTH
- Advanced knowledge of specific domain or range of engineering frameworks, technology, tools, processes and procedures, as well as organization issues
- Advanced knowledge of TD applications, systems, networks, innovation, design activities, best practices, business / organization, Bank standards
- Advance experience, knowledge and skills in own discipline
- Works independently with minimal guidance
- Acts as a SME resource for colleagues with less experience
- Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions
- Generally reports to a Manager or above
EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION
- Looking for an individual with a strong engineering mindset, sense of ownership - strong organizational, follow-up and priority-setting skills to handle highly-complex and multi-faceted assignments and to work independently
- Undergraduate Degree or Technical Certificate
- 4-10 years relevant experience
- Appetite for contributing within a complex and critical environment
- Expert knowledge of specific domain or range of engineering frameworks, development, technology, tools, processes, standards and procedures, as well as organizational issues. Experience as a primary subject matter expert in multiple areas and a consultant on all aspects of technology and solutions
- Experience deploying, managing and operating complex applications in a Cloud environment e.g. Azure, Databricks
- Understanding of shell script, powershell, Python and the ability to code for automation
- Understanding of critical concepts in DevOps (CI, CD, CM, IaC etc) and Agile principles
- Readiness and motivation (as senior or lead developer and valued subject matter expert) to address and resolve highly complex and multifaceted development-related issues, often independently.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills
- Experience in infrastructure, services and application monitoring and logging
- Configuring and managing big data technologies / databases and understanding of various approaches to data storage and indexing is an asset
Must-have:
- Cloud experience e.g. Azure Services including IaaS, IaC, Databricks
- Configuration management tools e.g. SALT, terraform, Ansible or CHEF
- Development/Engineering experience e.g. Powershell, Bash, Shell, Python
- Windows administration and powershell experience
- Excellent problem-solving skills, engineering mindset (must be able to demonstrate this in interviews)
Nice to have:
- Splunk, DataDog, ITRS, Sensu, Foglight, ELK
- AutoSys, ServiceNow, JIRA, Confluence
- Jenkins, Github, Bitbucket, Nexus or similar toolsets
