Sr. IT Calypso Support Analyst

at  TD Bank

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 or Technical Certificate.
• 5-7 years relevant experience.
• Experience with SQL Server, UNIX servers, Calypso application
• Experience within the Financial Industry, Capital Markets, PnL preferred.
• Adeptness at configuring, upgrading, and administering business applications, in co-ordination with appropriate stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently in a senior/lead role on a diverse range of tasks and may be relied upon to coach/ educate others.
• Strong subject matter expertise, as you prepare to provide clients, team, and/or project team with technical guidance and assist with highly complex troubleshooting/problem resolution.
• High comfort level in leading the support of highly complex and/or comprehensive applications/systems and/or business lines.
• Strength in identifying root causes and implementing targeted and controlled remediation plans.
• Readiness to review, participate in and implement procedures.
• Strength in consulting with other functional areas to provide technical expertise on area of specialization by acting as a reference on technology, trends and processes related to your own area.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills and can work effectively with vendors to fulfill support requirements.
• Possession of effective change management discipline.
• Willingness to work effectively as a team, helping others to resolve critical service issues.
• Leadership in enhancing knowledge/expertise in TD services, applications, infrastructure, analytical tools and techniques that can contribute to effective solution development/delivery.
• Interest and drive to enhance knowledge/expertise by staying abreast of industry and business trends, research industry standards, best practices and new innovations, make recommendations.
• Confidence acting as a reference for team members or clients.

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.

We are looking for someone to provide a broad range of systems and application support, research and analysis, administration, performance availability monitoring and management.

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:

• Perform controlled incident resolution including prioritization and escalation, involving business and technology partners as appropriate.
• Service applications and systems, provide application, systems, operational availability levels that meet or exceed standards and service levels already established, while minimizing operational risk.
• Promptly schedule packaging and release new applications in a timely manner, reduce change execution times by planning implementations with parallel work streams (while working with stakeholders as appropriate).
• Strive to improve production environment stability by working with others to set up, maintain and monitor applications and systems, while meeting availability targets.
• Provide prompt, effective day-to-day support, accurately identify and resolve issues, perform controlled and timely incident resolution all while making client satisfaction a top priority.
• Deliver effective and defect-free support (application, software and operations), research system issues and opportunities, recommend changes, oversee execution, keep accurate documentation.
• Design, review, integrate application requirements (e.g. functional, security, integration, performance, quality, operations).
• Address application, cross-capability and cross-release issues.
• Gain understanding of technical aspects of project and break-fix development related to the application, advise developers and solution designers.
• Assume incident management role (communicator, tracker, escalator, driver, etc.).
• Monitor system life cycles, ensure both specs and functionality support business objectives and architecture decisions, re-develop as required.
• Use meaningful metrics to monitor environment performance.
• Improve performance and resource utilization by assessing and analyzing opportunities to optimize the operational environment.
• Follow established processes/standards, business technology architecture, risk and production capacity guidelines; plan, monitor and escalate issues as required.
• Comply with both disaster and business recovery plans.
• Identify/implement process improvements to enhance revenue, customer experience and reduce costs.
• Ability to write Stored Procedures, write SQL queries, and ability to analyze the SQL data.
• Ability to navigate in UNIX server