Platform Specialist, TD Securities

Work Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours: 37.5

Line of Business: Technology Solutions

Pay Details: $91,200 - $136,800 CAD. This role is temporarily eligible for a pay premium above the posted salary range that is reassessed annually. You are encouraged to have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide more specific pay details for this role.

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.

Job Description:

Building a World-Class, Diverse and Inclusive Technology Team at TD

TD Securities, the wholesale trading subsidiary of TD Bank is seeking a self-starting, motivated and high-performing individual to become a strong contributor in its dynamic technology organization. This is a high impact and complex role that will require the individual to interface with technology, audit, risk management and operations teams regularly.

Job Overview:
We are seeking a proactive Platform Specialist to join the TDS Data Platform team. The ideal candidate will support our engineering team in navigating a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape, ensuring that our data platform complies with audit and risk governance standards and controls. You will play a key role in managing cross-functional initiatives, interpreting enterprise and regulatory standards and policies, and directly supporting risk management and audit deliverables.

You will be successful in this role if you have:

• Confidence and ability to navigate complex processes, oversee and work independently on a variety of initiatives end-to-end requiring specialist knowledge.
• Talent in quickly developing trust in cross-functional relationships, willingness in providing guidance and influencing multiple teams across a broad spectrum of initiatives and functional domains.
• Keen focus on problem solving and ability to quickly learn technical details of data platform's applications, configurations, and workflows.
• Desire in driving changes and shaping the future of how TDS Data Platform operates.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support engineering teams in the completion of audit and compliance deliverables, ensuring that risks are identified, tracked, and mitigated, and all deadlines are met.
• Interpret and apply governance standards, regulatory policies, and procedures, translating them into actionable tasks for engineering teams. Provide guidance to engineering leads and senior stakeholders on how to integrate governance controls into the data platform architecture and workflows.
• Develop deep familiarity with the platform's applications, configurations, and workflows to identify areas that require improvement or additional controls.
• Support implementation and post-implementation planning and activities.
• Collaborate with audit and risk management teams to ensure that all controls and governance requirements are properly documented and fulfilled.
• Coordinate with various internal and external stakeholders including engineering, compliance, and auditors to ensure smooth execution of platform initiatives.
• Lead, facilitate or actively generate action and remediation plans that address performance, risk and governance issues.
• Facilitate regular check-ins and progress updates, ensuring clear communication across teams and partners.
• Advocate for TDS Data Platform team and manage relationships with Enterprise and risk and governance partners.
• Own your reputation as a subject matter expert by identifying risk and providing guidance for complex situations.
• Continuously enhance knowledge/expertise in own area and keep current with leading-edge technology trends/developments and develop expertise in TD services, applications, infrastructure, analytical tools and techniques that can contribute to effective solution development/delivery.
• Continuously enhance knowledge of TD Securities business domains and their products/services.
• Drive operational excellence in Data Platform and Analytics by grounding strategic initiatives in line with governance and control requirements.

EXPERIENCE AND / OR EDUCATION

• Undergraduate degree or Technical Certificate.
• Graduate degree is an asset.
• 7+ years relevant experience.
• Past experience working in ITIL, cloud, and data related domains is an asset.
• Past experience working on/with audit and controls team is an asset.
• Experience working in Agile and working knowledge of SDLC.

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.

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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 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.

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.

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.

Language Requirement (Quebec only): Sans Objet