Director of Technology: Liquidity Risk Engineering, TD Securities

Work Location:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:
37.5

Line of Business:
Technology Solutions

Pay Details:
$145,000 - $180,000 CAD

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

Job Description:

Department Overview :

Building a World-Class, Diverse and Inclusive Technology Team

Our mission in the Equity Derivatives Technology team is to provide best in class solutions and support to the front office and many downstream partners. We use a mixture of proprietary and bespoke tech to provide timely solutions to the business.

Team Overview

The Liquidity Risk Technology group at TD Securities is seeking a business-facing technical leader at the Director level, to build the next generation of risk computation platforms. The core mission of the applications we build is to help the firm quantify, understand, and reduce our external total exposure in case of adverse market conditions.

Responsibilities

Working closely with our business partners across trading, finance and risk management, the successful candidate will own the following responsibilities:

1. Architect our risk applications in line with microservices patterns, distributed caching, and stream processing with a view to scale to hundreds of billions of computations daily
2. Manage a team of 5+ Developers working primarily in Java
3. Develop an organization supporting the growth plans for the Front-Office as well as aligning with Risk Management and Finance risk, control and regulatory reporting requirements
4. Develop and execute on a large-scale Data strategy for the group (including ingestion, reporting and dashboarding)
5. Develop tooling and processes to enhance the efficiency of the team

Technical Skills

1. 10+ years of technical leadership experience with direct people management responsibilities
2. Demonstrable architecture experience, with a focus on the design of large-scale distributed risk engines (liquidity risk, market risk or counterparty credit risk)
3. Demonstrable experience managing teams developing components in Java
4. Experience of NoSQL databases, Hadoop, distributed caching (Redis preferable), Big Data streaming technologies (Flink, Kafka Streams, Spring Cloud Stream), experience with RDBMS packages, demonstrable fluency in SQL, messaging (Kafka)
5. Experience of Azure (preferable) or AWS, Google Cloud
6. Experience of git, CI/CD toolset (Maven, Gradle), Jenkins, working within an Agile environment
7. Knowledge of the following would be a plus: Scala, Angular, React, Excel integration, ELK, TypeScript

Non-Technical Skills

1. Experience in working within a global team
2. Strong communication skills
3. Demonstrable experience working in a fast-paced environment, and supportive of flexible goals aligned with business priorities
4. Knowledge of derivatives pricing and capital markets is a strong plus

Additional Information :

Join in on what others in TD Technology Solutions are doing:

1. Inspire a positive work environment and help champion quality, innovation, teamwork and service to the business.
2. Learn voraciously, stretch your thinking, share your knowledge and educate others.
3. Communicate and collaborate with both technical and non-technical professionals.

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