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 Securitization 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.

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join the Securitization Technology team and embrace a broad range of tasks associated with developing application and systems solutions to address business challenges.

The successful applicant will help design and develop technology solutions for stakeholders within the Securitization Technology team. The work is wide-ranging and could include adding business functionality, improving the system's non-functional characteristics (e.g., performance or stability), adding new products support or progress the platform towards our future state architecture.

The team employs an agile development methodology, and work is prioritized by our stakeholders on an ongoing "just in time" basis. A strong emphasis is placed on software engineering skills. Our team is made up of dynamic and strong technical leads, developers, and BSA's who build and maintain critical technology platforms in an Agile environment. You'll be exposed to stretch assignments as you take on large-scale, complex and/or enterprise-wide projects built on the .NET stack.

Teamwork and cooperation are key within this fast-paced environment so good communication skills are essential as well as a collaborative spirit. Candidates are also expected to comply with the bank's in-office requirements.

Sitting in this position will help expand your knowledge, strengthen your expertise and introduce you to the inner workings of a capital markets trading business alongside a team of seasoned, diversely skilled technology and finance professionals.

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:

• Transform business requirements and research into winning delivery solutions that meet performance goals.

• Full stack development from UI (web technologies) to app services.

• Perform systems administration: monitor, configure, back-up, authenticate, tune.

• Aim for defect-free programming, create and maintain quality code, provide support during testing cycles and post-production deployment, engage in peer code reviews.

• Contribute to project plans, estimations and status updates.

• Identify issues, develop and maintain processes that address and resolve them, (and be sure to communicate/alert stakeholders as needed).

• Primarily focus on day-to-day activities.

• Make enhancements and troubleshoot.

• Configure and develop custom components with technology partners (analysts, developers, designers etc.) to meet requirements and goals.

• Ensure applications are free of common coding vulnerabilities (and follow standard security practices).

• Proactively put forward ideas that speak to project objectives (e.g. development, testing solutions, and tools).

• Complete unit and integration testing per standards and design specs.

• Take part in scope assessment, risk and cost analysis.

• Respect TD's technology delivery practices and standards, project management disciplines.

• Stay on top of state-of-health monitoring and monthly SLA targets.

• Apply and share technical expertise during incident management life cycle (e.g. analyzes reports and outages, perform impact assessments, facilitate stakeholder communication).

• Solution design: support the process of determining solutions which meet the needs of our internal clients, using a combination of processes and technologies

• Solution development: in the role of an individual contributor, execute the hands-on work of building the solution designed to meet the identified business needs, often working as part of a team with peers that have a wide range of expertise and skills

• Solution implementation: execute the process of putting the solution to work in producing value for the business, from navigating through our highly regulated processes to providing the highest level of post-implementation support

• Keep the business running smoothly: support team members through a variety of daily tasks and unplanned ad-hoc requests, with every day bringing new challenges and opportunities to deliver innovations.

Some further expectations are:

• Demonstrate high level of proactivity and strong ownership.

• Play technical leadership role and guide other team members.

• Communicate effectively both inside and outside the team to achieve results and build strong relationships.

• Develop a good understanding of Market Risk management processes in the Banking business.

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:

• Undergraduate Degree or Technical Certificate.

• 5+ years of solid hands-on C# programming experience

• Web UI knowledge or experience is beneficial

• DBs: SQL Server

• Middleware exposure is useful e.g. MQ / Caching

• Azure or Google cloud knowledge/experience is also useful since we anticipate more cloud based work in the future.

• Experience in Interest Rate Derivative technology teams and interest rate derivatives knowledge is a big plus

• 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.

• Strength in coaching and advising clients, partners and project teams.

• Commitment to and belief in the quality of your deliverables.

• C# and .NET

• SQL Server, T-SQL, and SSRS

• CI/CD Pipeline fundamentals including git

• Multi-server cloud infrastructure

• UI/UX skills is a bonus

Other Qualifications/Skills/Experience:

• Strong verbal, written, presentation & communication skills.

• Proactive, organized, excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Works well independently, as well as, within a team.

• Financial experience is a strong asset.

• Self-starter: you can see what needs doing, and can take initiative in producing value

• Willing to learn: you realize lack of knowledge is not something to fear, and instead is an opportunity to overcome a challenge and expand your possibilities .

• Goal oriented: you understand why you need to do what you do, and can see the bigger picture

• Highly analytical: presented with an issue, you are able to break it down, and translate it into something others can easily understand

• Technical expertise: we don't expect you to be in expert in all the technologies we use, however, you are expected to have translatable technical expertise to serve as a strong foundation to learn on the fly

• Time management: time is money, and your experience tells you delivering on time is critical especially when others depend on you

• Interpersonal communications: we don't work alone, we work as teams, and we have clients, so be prepared to communicate clearly, often, and effectively