Solutions Design IT Specialist Full-time Job

TD Terrace - 160 Front Street West Corporate, Toronto, Ontario

 

Work Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 

Hours:

37.5

 

Line of Business:

Technology Solutions

 

Pay Details:

$125,000 - $156,000 CAD

 

 

This role is eligible for a discretionary variable compensation award that considers business and individual performance.

 

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 candidate's 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.

 

Job Description:

Company Description:

 

With more than 3,500 people in 13 offices around the world, TD Securities provides a wide range of capital market products and services to corporate, government and institutional clients who choose us for our knowledge, innovation and experience in the following key areas of finance:

•             Investment and Corporate Banking

•             Capital Markets

•             Interest Rate, Currency and Derivative Products

•             Commodities

Our services include the underwriting and distribution of new debt and equity issues, providing advice on strategic acquisitions and divestitures, and executing daily trading and investment needs.

Being part of the TD Bank Group, we are able to draw on the strengths, the resources and the network of one of the largest North American financial institutions to consistently deliver value for our clients, every day, in every team on every assignment.

 

Job Description:

 

The Mass and Core Payment Technology Team is looking for a Senior Solutions Design IT Specialist to contribute to the build of applications from scratch as well as to maintain them.

 

The Mass and Core Payment team is responsible for creating new payment rails like mentioned in #2 and #3 Enhancing current payment rails like Visa Money Transfer, North bound Money Movement, Domestic Account to account, Domestic Bill payments, EFT's, ACH's Enhancing shared services like File transformations app interfacing mailboxes/kafka

 

The core dev team is in Toronto with support being provided by onshore and Singapore resources.

 

The ideal candidate would be a self-starting, motivated and high-performing individual who looks forward to being a strong contributor in a dynamic technology organization at a major bank. This complex role is on a team of highly talented technologists delivering solutions to the global markets business, risk managers, as well as other functions within the dealer. The candidate will be required to effectively build upon the intraday platform and collaborate closely with the TDS Data Platform and various valuation data producers.

 

Role Responsibilities:

 

• Application design and development activities. Hands-on experience with Java/Springboot applications.

• Develop and document a detailed solution design within SDS, impart your subject matter expertise throughout life cycle.

• Expert knowledge of the business, broader organization, technical environment, standards, processes, tools, procedures, multiple programming languages, operating systems, solutions design and other relevant technology areas from a design/support/solutions perspective.

• Readiness and motivation to work autonomously in a lead capacity on a diverse range of activities (e.g. design, support of technical business solutions) and can be relied on to coach, educate and monitor the work of others.

• Primary subject matter expertise in multiple areas; you're seasoned in counselling clients and project teams on all aspects of research, analysis, design, software support, development of technical solutions.

• Strength coaching and advising clients, partners and project teams, capable of being an internal expert.

• Participate in complex applications and systems development, programming.

• Propose solution options; generate stakeholder support.

• Produce top-notch functional, technical and user interface designs.

• Take business, Enterprise Architecture, system performance and development standards requirements, then develop functional, technical and user interface designs for an application and/or system.

• Review technical deliverables for quality throughout detailed design and development phase, identify gaps or redesign as needed.

• Define metrics and performance goals with technology partners and peers.

• Respect TD's technology delivery practices and standards, project management disciplines, business technology architecture, and risk and production capacity – this includes thorough project requirements, documentation, scope estimates and costs.

• Deliver effective and efficient solutions by meeting milestones and ensuring project deliverables are on time, within budget, and adhere to the corporate quality and security standards.

• Conduct code reviews to address quality, standards compliance, reusability and ease of maintenance, Operational Readiness Reviews, and L3 production troubleshooting support.

• Support knowledge management processes and ensure knowledge is codified, monitored, tracked and managed.

• Ensure design leverages existing reusable components, traces back to business requirements, and that new modules are designed with reusability in mind.

• Identify and address any issue that affects the integrity of the application (e.g. cross-capability/release issues).

• Lead, Inspire and Mentor team members on the use of Software Development best practices and Agile practices.

 

 

Qualifications and Skills:

Must Have Skills:

• 10+ years development and End to End design experience (J2EE, Java 8)

• 10+ frameworks like Spring, Spring MVC, Spring boot, Spring Security (OAuth, LDAP)

• 5+ years RESTful API

• 5+ years database knowledge preferred oracle

• Hands- on experience with development tools and frameworks such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle, Git, and Nexus.

• 3+ years building kafka based application (Kstream/producer-consumer)/MQ

• Strong knowledge of core Java

• Experience working on Banking Domain projects

• Engage, coordinate, and manage change across multiple groups

• Act as a leader to junior members of the team

Good to Have:

• Building/Worked on File Processing applications

• Agile/Waterfall and SDLC/PMLC processes

• Hands- on experience of SSO, MFA, PingFed, OIDC, OAuth, API gateway

• Continuous Integration and Test-Driven Methodologies

 

 

Education

 

BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent work experience.

 

Additional Information:

 

Join in on what others in TDS Technology 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

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