Software Engineer I - Mainframe

TD Bank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

TD Bank in Toronto is hiring for a mainframe-focused role within Technology Solutions. The position involves contributing to complex application design, planning, and delivery, with emphasis on security and quality.

The candidate will work with analysts, developers and designers to meet project goals. The role requires 3+ years of mainframe experience, strong COBOL/JCL/VSAM/DB2 skills, and familiarity with Jira, Confluence and ServiceNow.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or technical certificate required.
• 3+ years of mainframe development and support experience, financial industry preferred.
• Strong COBOL/JCL/VSAM/TSO/ISPF/DB2 knowledge.
• Experience with source control and job scheduling tools (Endevor, SCM, Changeman; CA-7, Autosys, AWF).
• Familiarity with ITSM tools Jira, Confluence and ServiceNow.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to functional, technical and UI designs for complex applications.
• Participate in development, planning, estimates, and status updates to meet schedules.
• Conduct peer reviews to ensure quality, standards compliance, and reusability.
• Identify and address issues affecting application integrity and cross-capability releases.
• Configure and develop components with partners to meet requirements and goals.
• Ensure security practices and minimize coding vulnerabilities.
• Share technical knowledge during incident management and outages.
• On-call rotation may be required.

Skills

COBOL

JCL

VSAM

TSO

ISPF

IMS/DC/DB

DB2

Endevor

SCM

Changeman

CA-7

Autosys

AWF

Jira

Confluence

ServiceNow

MQ

GitHub Copilot

Education

Undergraduate Degree or Technical Certificate

Tools

Endevor

SCM

Changeman

Jira

Confluence

ServiceNow

MQ

Job description

Work Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours: 37.5

Line of Business: Technology Solutions

Pay Details: $69,700 - $98,400 CAD

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

• Contribute to top-notch functional, technical and user interface designs.
• Participate in complex applications and systems development, project planning, estimates, programming and status update ensuring project deliverables are on time, and adhere to the corporate quality and security standards.
• Participate in peer to peer code reviews to address quality, standards compliance, reusability and ease of maintenance.
• Identify issue, develop, maintain processes and address any issue that affects the integrity of the application (e.g. cross-capability/release issues).
• Make enhancements and troubleshoot.
• Configure and develop custom components with technology partners (analysts, developers, designers etc.) to meet requirements and goals.
• Ensure applications are free of common coding vulnerabilities (and follow standard security practices).
• Proactively put forward ideas that speak to project objectives (e.g. development, testing solutions, and tools).
• Complete unit and integration testing per standards and design specs.
• Respect TD's technology delivery practices and standards, project management disciplines.
• Participate in sharing technical knowledge during incident management life cycle (e.g. analyzes reports and outages, perform impact assessments, facilitate stakeholder communication).
• On call rotation may be required.

Job Requirements

• Undergraduate Degree or Technical Certificate.
• 3+ years of relevant mainframe application development and Support experience (Financial Industry Preferred)
• Working experience mainframe skills with the following:
• Must have
  • COBOL, JCL, VSAM, TSO, ISPF, IMS DC/DB and or DB2
  • Source Control (any of): Endevor, SCM, Changeman
  • Job scheduling tools (any of): CA-7, Autosys, AWF
• Should have
  • Agile experience ITSM tools: Jira, Confluence and Service Now
• Nice to have
  • Mainframe utilities: IDz, ZDT, ADDI, PD tool, IMS Explorer for Development
  • General knowledge to have MQ
  • GitHub Copilot
  • Banking Industry preferred

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 strive to make every interaction, product, and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple for 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 foster deeper relationships, ensure disciplined execution, and build a simpler, faster banking experience. TD is deeply committed to being a leader in client experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are client facing. Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.

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.