Senior Solution Architect - Capital Markets

at  TD Bank

EXPERIENCE IN CAPITAL MARKETS ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:

• Global Markets Trading
• Capital and Investment Banking
• Prime Services
• E-Trading
• Global Transaction Banking
• Market and Credit Risk
• Demonstrable experience in the design of large-scale risk engines, both batch and intraday, serving multiple regions
• An understanding of valuation and risk measures. An understanding of data dimensionality for different risk measures
• Experience in building reporting solutions for stakeholders (FO, Market Risk Management…)
• An understanding of trade lifecycle and trade modelling for risk analytics
• An understanding of market data lifecycle (curve rolls, bootstrapping) and modelling for risk analytics
• A high-level understanding of risk analytics and how they operate internally.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Certification in TOGAF 9 or 10;
• Financial experience and capital markets experience.
• Proficiency and Certification in GCP and GKE or Azure.
• Solid understanding of data and analytics principles and methodologies.
• Experience implementing foundational cloud services (networking, security, account/organizations, logging & monitoring, identity access management, etc.).
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools.
• Experience in software development using languages such as Java, Python, C++, Go, or Ruby.
• Experience in large-scale migration of application workloads from on-prem or collocated data centers to a cloud platform.
• Experience working with GCP, AWS, Azure, and private cloud compute, storage, micro-service applications, platform serverless frameworks, API gateway, CI/CD, and cloud-based services.
• Experience implementing cloud controls, security, monitoring technologies, as well as hands-on experience instrumenting alerts based on aggregated logs and analytics output and audit services.
• Experience with infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform or Cloud Formation.
• Experience managing container orchestrated workloads such as Kubernetes/Docker.
• Experience developing DevOps, Site Reliability, and Solutions Architecture methodologies and practices.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

WHO WE ARE:

TD is one of the world’s leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Every day, we deliver legendary customer experiences to over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world. More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to the Bank, those we serve, and the economies we support. We are guided by our vision to Be the Better Bank and our purpose to enrich the lives of our customers, communities and colleagues.
TD is deeply committed to being a leader in customer experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are customer facing. As we build our business and deliver on our strategy, we are innovating to enhance the customer experience and build capabilities to shape the future of banking. Whether you’ve got years of banking experience or are just starting your career in financial services, we can help you realize your potential. Through regular leadership and development conversations to mentorship and training programs, we’re here to support you towards your goals. As an organization, we keep growing – and so will you.

• Design and architect robust solutions
• Strong communications / presentation skills. Strong collaboration skills and able to demonstrate a pragmatic approach.
• Collaborate with project managers and solution architects to accurately deliver cloud architecture projects on time and within budget.
• Assess and develop current architecture and readiness for cloud implementation, introducing new solutions and modernization strategies for the platforms.
• Develop detailed-level design requirements for architecture implementations, optimizing platform and integration strategies for cost-effective delivery of scalable and reliable distributed systems.
• Create delivery guides, assessments, and common architecture patterns for cloud architecture projects.
• Collaborate with cloud engineers and developers to deliver end-to-end solutions for clients.
• Implement best practices for backup and recovery techniques for applications in GCP, Azure private cloud focusing on continuous deployment, cloud security, governance, configuration management, and continuous integration.
• Design systems integrations, ingestion patterns, target and transition architectures, and roadmaps.
• Resolve Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return on Investment (ROI) for the data platform and data products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement scalable and efficient solutions.
• Drive the adoption of DevOps best practices to streamline data pipeline implementation and maintenance.
• Provide expertise in API integration and data governance for smooth data flows across systems.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends in engineering and analytics.
• Mentor and guide junior team members, fostering a culture of learning and growth.