Data Platform Engineer - Cloud

at  TD Bank

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.
We are currently seeking a Data Platform Engineer – Cloud to join our expanding team of Engineers within the Data Platform and Analytics (Velocity) team. The successful candidate will be working towards enabling capabilities offered by Azure PaaS to facilitate a stream focused data platform.
There’s room to grow in all of it.

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:

EDUCATION/ACCREDITATIONS:

Undergraduate Degree or Technical Certificate.

QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• 5+ years relevant experience.
• Experience with Big Data Tools: (HDFS/SPARK/YARN/DREMIO/KAFKA/Azure PaaS)
• Ability to code in one/many (Java / Python / JavaScript)
• Thought leadership and/or industry knowledge specific (but not limited to) your own area of expertise.
• Willingness and strength in providing guidance and influencing multiple teams across a broad spectrum of initiatives and functional domains.
• Experience working on Agile Teams

DESIRED INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

• Takes great personal pride in building robust software
• Strong sense of ownership
• Passionate about programming and computer science
• Enjoys working in a fast-paced environment
• Has excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Has strong customer focus

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.

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:

• Design/Research/Implement required process components to enable TD Azure functionality such as Unity Catalog, Azure Purview.
• Complete TD Public Cloud process components to deploy infrastructure to DEV/PAT/PROD.
• Experience in IaaS infrastructure for a Data Platform. (ex: Spark, HDFS, Airflow, Dremio and more ..)
• Experience in writing java back-end services, deploying and build out self-serve capabilities.
• Experience in PaaS from Azure / GCP (ADF/Databricks..)
• Must be able to lead complex projects and competing priorities with a high level of technical acumen and strong communication skills.
• Familiar with data management Access Control (RBAC / ABAC).
• You’ll deploy programmable, easily customizable infrastructure that embraces change and automates the deployment process to reduce risk.
• 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.Supports research activities to adopt new technology solutions in ways of developing new capabilities