Principal Engineer- Data Platform, TD Securities

Work Location:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:
37.5

Line of Business:
Technology Solutions

Pay Details:
$126,800 - $164,100 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:

Department Overview:

Building a World-Class, Diverse and Inclusive Technology Team

Think "TD Securities" if you crave meaningful work and the excitement of capital markets. Tech is constantly evolving, and we are evolving with it. We foster an entrepreneurial, start-up environment that uses the latest technology to change the future of TD Securities. The impact of your work will be felt as we collaborate to solve problems, embrace change, and help our customers around the globe work smarter.

Data Platform and Analytics: Velocity Team

At the Velocity team, we are dedicated to driving change with speed and precision, striving to revolutionize the way data is consumed and managed.

As a Principal Engineer, you'll draw on your extensive technical development experience to take full ownership of data platform operations and customer delivery. You'll have autonomy to ensure the platform is stable, and value is delivered to its tenants.

This position is hands-on and technical, involving direct guidance to a small team of solution engineers as they address various data platform challenges. Your responsibilities will include technical guidance and/or creative work arounds for platform temporary limitations. In addition, monitor health and user FinOps statistics, cost optimization and customer satisfaction. Technical expertise in areas like cloud native infrastructure management, full stack software development, AKS, Azure, and related subjects are essential. If we have a problem, lets use code to solve it !

Role & Responsibilities

What are we looking for:

• You enjoy high exposure program that have difficult problems to solve.
• Experience in designing and operating a Data Platform from ingestion to consumption.
• Expert level in one or more programming languages (i.e. Java, Python, Javascript, Scala).
• Exposure with AKS/Docker, Virtual Machines, streaming, API development and more.
• Design/Research/Implement required process components to enable TD Azure functionalities (i.e. Unity Catalog, Azure Purview ..)
• Experience with 3rd party vendors is a plus (i.e. Dremio / Confluent Kafka)
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to coordinate and liaison with multiple parties involved to align to strategic data platform and execution of needed components.
• Ability to create Architectural diagrams with networking focus and system design.
• Experience in PaaS offerings from Azure / GCP / Databricks
• Must be able to lead complex projects and competing priorities with a high level of technical acumen and strong communication skills.
• You'll also analyze all platform level changes, monitor application impact, and provide appropriate technical solutions to resolve all issues quickly and efficiently.
• Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.
• Achieves product commitments (and influences others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills and contributes to or led technology communities.
• Uses automation, system tools, open-source solutions, observability and 'security first' principles in daily work.
• Contributes to team agile ceremonies, leads demos and presentations, helps new engineers learn established norms
• Initiates high level solution design approaches, and guides team to achieve desired key software delivery capabilities using automated, coded enterprise and observability.
• Participates in internal speaking and advocacy events.

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 in Engineering or Technical Certificate.
• Expert knowledge one or many of the follow (Java, Python, JavaScript)
• Experience operating in a cloud environment.
• 8+ years relevant experience.
• Willingness and strength in providing guidance and influencing multiple teams across a broad spectrum of initiatives and functional domains.

Core Skills/Experiences:

• Azure Cloud Knowledge (Azure Data Lake, Managed Identities, Service Principals)
• Experience with CI/CD or DevOPs working with Azure
• Databricks
• Terraform
• Kubernetes

Nice to have:

• Azure Databricks CLI
• Azure Resource Management REST API experience
• Past TD Experience + EDP (GT/XL) ++++
• Github Actions CI/CD

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.
• Embrace change and witness amazing things happen - from the inside.

#LI-Tech

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 strive to make every interaction, product and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple. 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.

Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.

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.

If you're passionate about helping clients and building deep, lasting relationships, TD offers diverse career paths where you can grow your expertise and make a meaningful impact.

We're committed to your success and foster a respectful workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, everyone has fair opportunities to grow, and you can unlock your full potential to achieve your career goals. Here at TD, we hire and develop the best.

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):
Sans Objet