IT Support Specialist

TD; Toronto; On-site; CAD 76,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an IT Support Specialist to join their dynamic team in Toronto. This role offers an exciting opportunity to engage with cutting-edge technology while providing critical application support. You will be responsible for ensuring system stability, troubleshooting issues, and collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance operational efficiency. The company emphasizes career development, offering a robust rewards package and a supportive work environment that fosters innovation and teamwork. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a meaningful impact, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

Health and Well-being Benefits

Savings and Retirement Programs

Paid Time Off

Career Development Programs

Reward and Recognition Programs

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of relevant experience in IT support.
• Solid understanding of equity derivatives products and their lifecycle.
• Experience with trading systems and operational support.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on support for production engineering and application monitoring.
• Perform incident resolution and ensure operational availability.
• Design and integrate application requirements while addressing issues.

Skills

JavaScript

SQL

Windows

Debugging Skills

Analytic Skills

Automation Tools (Python, Autosys, ITRS)

Education

Undergraduate Degree

Technical Certificate

Tools

Oracle

MongoDB

Trading Applications

Job description

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Work Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:

37.5

Line Of Business:

Technology Solutions

Pay Details:

$76,800 - $115,200 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 at TD

We can't afford to be boring. Neither can you. The scale and scope of what TD does may surprise you. The rapid pace of change makes it a business imperative for us to be smart and open-minded in the way we think about technology. TD's technology and business teams become more intertwined as new opportunities present themselves. This new era in banking does not equal boring. Not at TD, anyway.

TD IT Application Support covers business segment CIO technology areas or shared services technology functions. These experts interact closely with those within the Infrastructure Technology Solutions space. With a heightened focus on developing, implementing standard support models and processes using industry best practices, this role is responsible for production support, troubleshooting incident and problem management, service transition, IT change management and deployment and release management.

There's room to grow in all of it.

Job Description

About This Role

We are looking for someone to provide a broad range of systems and application support, research and analysis, administration, performance availability monitoring and management. Provide hands-on support with production engineering approach for Global Equities Derivatives (BoR) with responsibility for application support, system monitoring, problem escalation, responding to system related user queries and deployment of releases.

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.
• Support business case development, RFI/RFP and SLAs with vendors.
  
  

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.
• Solid financial understanding of common equity derivatives products and their life cycle, including Equity swap, Equity options, Equity linked notes, OTC products
• Intermediate java script knowledge
• Strong SQL scripting skills with Oracle and MongoDB
• Proficiency in Windows
• Experience with trading application
• Experience supporting trading systems and how trades flow front to back
• Should be comfortable assessing trading systems/components to investigate trade breaks, connectivity and data issues
• Excellent debugging and analytic skills: ability to isolate root cause across infrastructure, application and database stacks
• Experience with automation and scheduling tools – Python, Autosys, ITRS
• Highly assertive communication skill with ability to multi-task
  
  

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
  
  

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.

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. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience, or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues, there are many different career paths within our organization at TD – and we’re committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.

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

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Banking

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