Software Engineer III (US) 2

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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 candidates 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.

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Preferred Qualifications

We cant 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. TDs 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.

TD Securities is the wholesale banking arm of TD Bank Financial Group one of Canadas largest financial institutions and a global leader in on-line financial services. 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.

The Market Risk Technology Engineering Team (in TD Securities) is responsible for the development and support of our derivatives (Interest Rate FX Credit Commodity) valuation trading risk and enterprise market risk for our organization. Our applications are hybrid cloud based and consist of: Risk & Capital Studio Valuation Services and Curve & Volatility Generation. The main team is in Toronto and New York.

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About This Role

The Market Risk Technology Engineering Team is looking to on-board a self-starting high-performing Java software engineer with a strong engineering mindset to help us grow our risk & valuation applications through software design and its implementation in Java.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to the strategic growth and implementation of our risk & valuation applications

Development Opportunities include:

• Migrating to a new cloud environment
• Building new and refactoring legacy applications
• Influencing the overall architectural direction
• Assist in our software evolution from batch orientated end of day to intra-day
• Leading development of crucial software components

• Inspiring and mentoring team members on the use of software development best practices

Job Requirements:

Technical Skills

• Undergraduate Degree or Technical Certificate
• 10-15 years of Java experience
• Experience in the Spring tech stack and building microservices using Spring Boot
• Experience in designing and integrating with REST APIs gRPC endpoints.
• Experience working with messaging technologies (Kafka) (ZeroMQ Google ProtoBuf a plus)
• Experience with Hadoop Spark Parquet or similar Big Data technologies
• Experience with RDBMS demonstrable fluency in SQL
• Experience of Git CI/CD toolset (Maven / Gradle) Jenkins working within an Agile environment
• Strong understanding of clean coding practices
• Experience working with scalable and low latency systems
• A passion for simplifying and automating work for making things better for being efficient and helping others

Business Skills

• Strong communication skills. Experience in collaborating efficiently within a global team.
• Demonstrable experience working in a fast-paced environment working with PMs and our business sponsors.
• Knowledge of capital markets products including derivatives and cross-asset products
• Hands-on experience with market risk trade valuations FRTB VaR and stress testing processes a huge plus

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.

The Software Engineer III leads the creation of comprehensive end-to-end detailed solutions for projects and platforms with overall accountability for the technical design and delivery of a specific technical solution based on requirements from stakeholders.

Develops and maintains technical solutions ensuring adherence to engineering and architectural design principles while meeting business requirements. Provides technical expertise with a focus on efficiency reliability scalability and security; includes planning evaluating recommending designing operationalizing and supporting solutions in compliance with enterprise and industry standards.

Ultimately providing expert advice and lead in system / application administration installation configuration / provisioning platform planning and design integration and release / deployment management.

Depth & Scope:

• Expert knowledge of the business the broader organization technical environment processes procedures tools and other relevant technology areas (e.g. Architecture Infrastructure Security etc.) from a design / support / solutions perspective
• Primary subject matter expert in multiple areas and consults with clients/or project teams with respect to all aspects of research analysis design hardware / software support
• Expert knowledge of specific domain or range of engineering frameworks technology tools processes and procedures as well as organization issues
• Works independently and/or autonomously as a senior/ lead on a diverse range of tasks / operational support of solutions

Education & Experience:

• Undergraduate degree Post Graduate degree or Technical Certificate
• Strong academic background (e.g. computer science engineering)
• Graduate degree nice to have
• 5-7 years relevant experience

Customer Accountabilities:

• Executes on Engineering strategy as it relates to the introduction of tools and the automation of build test release and configures activities across Application Platform and Infrastructure
• Leads the creation of solution options and ultimately a comprehensive end-to-end solution and coordinate relevant stakeholders as required to support development initiatives; following a build it break it fix it mentality.
• Is responsible for developing and documenting detailed solution design and act as an application SME through the design and development lifecycle ensuring alignment with Architecture
• Is accountable for complex applications/systems development programming /coding
• Develops functional technical and user interface designs for an application / system that meets the defined requirements (business enterprise architecture direction system performance and development standards)
• Consults on development of requirements and specifications and apply functional knowledge of business functions to design optimal software / systems
• Reviews technical deliverables throughout detailed design and development phase to ensure quality adherence and identify gaps or redesign requirements as needed
• Identifies recommends sources negotiates and implements improvements/ solutions (buy/build/reuse) to enhance customer experience availability and/or reduce cost in support of client needs
• Works with Technology partners to define metrics and performance goals for the application
• Identifies and addresses application and data issues and cross-capability and cross-release issues that affect application integrity
• Researches/analyzes business requirements to evaluate and recommend optimal solutions within business technology architecture; collects environment requirements for infrastructure implementation by analyzing the current system environment using technical tools and utilities
• Works with Architects to ensure that environment modifications interact appropriately data conversion impacts are considered and other areas of impact are addressed and meet performance requirements of the project
• Contributes to the advancement of the TD engineering practice through strong collaboration research analytic and problem-solving skills

Shareholder Accountabilities:

• Adheres to enterprise frameworks or methodologies that relate to software engineering activities
• Ensures respective programs/ policies/practices are well managed meets business needs complies with internal and external requirements and aligns with business priorities
• Collaboratively engages with relevant stakeholders at all levels both internal and external to shift from finding defects to proactively preventing defects
• Actively seeks and supports continuous improvement and automation opportunities within the engineering practice
• Conducts meaningful analysis at the functional or enterprise level using results to draw conclusions make recommendations assess the effectiveness of programs/ policies/ practices
• Identify opportunities to minimize cost provide recommendations and/or deliver corresponding strategic solutions to support cost effectiveness and to enhance stakeholder experience
• Conducts code reviews to ensure adherence to quality standards compliance reusability and ease of maintenance Operational Readiness Reviews and supporting gating and review sign-offs for solution design
• Monitors service productivity and assesses efficiency levels within own function and implement continuous process / performance improvements where opportunities exists
• Leads / facilitates and/or implements actions / remediation plans to address performance / risk /governance issues
• Actively manages relationships within and across various business lines corporate and/or control functions and ensures alignment with enterprise and/or regulatory requirements
• Protects the interests of the organization identifies and manage risks and escalates non-standard high risk activities as necessary
• Keeps abreast of emerging issues trends and evolving regulatory requirements and assesses potential impacts
• Maintains a culture of risk management and control supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite

Employee/Team Accountabilities:

• Participates fully as a member of the team supports a positive work environment that promotes service to the business quality innovation and teamwork and ensures timely communication of issues/ points of interest
• Provides thought leadership and/ or industry knowledge for quality engineering best practices and participates in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit
• Keeps current on emerging trends/ developments and grows knowledge of the business related tools and techniques
• Participates in personal performance management and development activities including cross training within own team
• Keeps others informed and up-to-date about the status / progress of projects and / or all relevant or useful information related to day-to-day activities
• Actively mentors and enables team members by sharing knowledge and leveraging engineering best practices
• Supports the team by providing guidance and proactively identifying and resolving issues
• Leads motivates and develops relationships with internal and external business partners / stakeholders to develop productive working relationships
• Contributes to a fair positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce
• Acts as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the bank both internally and/or externally

Physical Requirements:

Never: 0%; Occasional: 1-33%; Frequent: 34-66%; Continuous: 67-100%

• Domestic Travel Occasional
• International Travel Never
• Performing sedentary work Continuous
• Performing multiple tasks Continuous
• Operating standard office equipment - Continuous
• Responding quickly to sounds Occasional
• Sitting Continuous
• Standing Occasional
• Walking Occasional
• Moving safely in confined spaces Occasional
• Lifting/Carrying (under 25 lbs.) Occasional
• Lifting/Carrying (over 25 lbs.) Never
• Squatting Occasional
• Bending Occasional
• Kneeling Never
• Crawling Never
• Climbing Never
• Reaching overhead Never
• Reaching forward Occasional
• Pushing Never
• Pulling Never
• Twisting Never
• Concentrating for long periods of time Continuous
• Applying common sense to deal with problems involving standardized situations Continuous
• Reading writing and comprehending instructions Continuous
• Adding subtracting multiplying and dividing Continuous

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required. The listed or specified responsibilities & duties are considered essential functions for ADA purposes.

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 6500 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 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 base salary and variable compensation/incentive awards (e.g. eligibility for cash and/or equity incentive awards generally through participation in an incentive plan) and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits savings and retirement programs paid time off (including Vacation PTO Flex PTO and Holiday PTO) banking benefits and discounts career development and reward and recognition. Learn more

Additional Information:
Were delighted that youre considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations training programs and a competitive benefits plan were committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.

Colleague Development
If youre interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills we want to help you succeed. Youll 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 were committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.

Training & Onboarding
We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that youve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Interview Process
Well 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

TD Bank is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal state or local law.

If you are an applicant with a disability and need accommodations to complete the application process please email TD Bank US Workplace Accommodations Program at . Include your full name best way to reach you and the accommodation needed to assist you with the applicant process.