Solutions Design IT Specialist

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Job Description:

About this Role

Come build High Value Payments with us! We are looking for a Senior Engineer / Solutions Designer to work on a broad range of features. You'll be exposed to stretch assignments as you take on large-scale, complex, enterprise projects.

Here's some of what you may be asked to perform.

In this position, you will:

• Transform Business Requirements and conduct research into winning delivery solutions that meet performance goals.

• Coordinate from a technical perspective large projects that span multiple teams and cover a diverse spectrum of technologies

• Provide technical guidance to technical leads and to Product Teams (Pods) consisting of Product Owners, Business Systems Analysts, Scrum Masters, Developers and of course our QA engineering group.

As an Engineer, you will:

• Create and maintain quality system and infrastructure designs that are maintainable, performant, reliable, scalable, and secure.

• Define our next unit and integration test frameworks and standards.

• Ensure we have the proper tools in place so that we can ensure our applications are free of common coding vulnerabilities and we follow standard security practices.

• Design and develop highly complex and custom components.

• Work closely with other Developers, Designers, Solution Architects and Engineers to design solutions and deliver extraordinary products.

• Apply and share your technical expertise and experience.

As a Pod Leader and Team-member, you will:

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

• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies

• Contribute to project management activities such as: scope assessment and analysis (e.g. T-shirt sizing and Story Mapping), identifying risks and recommending mitigation measures, as well as escalating and communicating possible issues.

• Communicate and collaborate with the broader product team to develop and refine features.

• Lead and mentor team members

Department Overview

Building a World-Class, Diverse and Inclusive Technology Team

We can't afford to be boring, and 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.

The High Value Payments Engineering Team is under the Payments Technology division. You'll be joining a mature team with strong Agile practices, pioneering the way for TD in Agile.

This team builds and supports the US Wires Technology stack, a grouping of multipurpose microservice clusters gravitating around a centralized payment engine. Our clients are multiple divisions within AMCB business that funnel all their high value payments via our systems.

We function in a hybrid model with two days in the office and three work from home.

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

Role Requirements

Essentials:

• Experience as a Senior Software Engineer / Designer delivering scalable and high throughput projects 10+ years.

• Experience in:

• React, Angular or similar technologies

• Know your Java / Spring / Spring Boot very well

• RESTful APIs

• Microservices and their architecture

• Messaging Queues

• Large mission critical online applications design and infrastructure configuration

• Relational and non-relational databases (MS SQL / Oracle / Mongo DB)

• Kafka cloud or local.

• Infrastructure Design and Performance Engineering

• Know your SCM and task trackers - Bitbucket/Git, JIRA and Confluence

• Ability to deconstruct high lever requirements into sizeable designs for pods to consume.

• Ability to communicate with non-technical members of the team.

• Effective time and task management skills, including the ability to manage concurrent deliverables at the personal and team level.

• Self-motivated team player with high energy and ability to work independently as well as within teams.

• Creative problem-solving skills

• Readiness and motivation (as a Senior / Lead Developer) to address and resolve complex and multi-faceted development-related issues, often independently.

• Ability to work autonomously in a lead capacity on a diverse range of activities (e.g. design, support of technical business solutions).

• Strength in collaborating with clients, partners, and peer project teams.

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

• Undergraduate Degree

Nice to have:

• Working experience in Agile methodology.

• Familiarity with Maven, Jenkins, Nexus

• Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.

• Elasticsearch and AI generative models experience

• Network Layer Design Experience / Knowledge

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

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 (Quebec only):
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