TD Securities Risk/Pricing Engineer

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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:

TD Bank Group Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with more than 85,000 employees in offices around the world, The Toronto-Dominion Bank and its subsidiaries are collectively known as TD Bank Group (TD). TD offers a full range of financial products and services more than 25 million customers worldwide through three key business lines: 

• Canadian Retail including TD Canada Trust, Business Banking, TD Auto Finance (Canada), TD Wealth (Canada), TD Direct Investing and TD Insurance
• U.S. Retail including TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank, TD Auto Finance (U.S.), TD Wealth (U.S.) and TD’s investment in TD Ameritrade
• Wholesale Banking including TD Securities 

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.    

We are growth-oriented, people-focused, and community-minded. As a team, we work to deliver value to our clients every day. 

Business Context

The Transparency team is a Front Office development team responsible for the development of cross-asset automated pricing and risk systems, primarily focused on FICC derivatives. The Transparency team works directly with global sales/trading/quant teams on the development of applications incorporating pricing and risk models used for electronic trading. These applications are used globally by Front Office sales and traders and are critical to TD’s trading activities. This is a global team with engineers in Toronto, London, New York, and Singapore. 

We use the following technology stack:

• Java 17+
• React/JavaScript/TypeScript
• Solace and Kafka event brokers
• Hazelcast caching and distributed computing
• ZeroMQ for remote socket communication
• Google Protocol Buffers/JSON/SBE for serialization
• Graphite/Grafana/Dynatrace for metrics
• RHEL Linux 8+

Job Description

The Transparency Team is looking for a Mid-Level Engineer to join our core pricing/risk services development team. The ideal candidate has the following:

Technical Skills 

• 5+ years of strong Core Java knowledge, JDK 17+
• Proficient in web application development (JavaScript/TypeScript/React)
• Proficient in multi-threaded programming.
• Proficient in developing high throughput and low latency event-driven messaging systems.
• Proficient in implementing automated unit/integration/regression testing into CI/CD development pipelines.
• Proficient in developing event-driven architecture for data-intensive distributed computing solutions.

Highly desirable 

• Experience working with sales/trading/quant teams on implementing pricing/trading/risk solutions.
• Strong knowledge of Interest Rate Swap products (FRA/IRS/XCCY)
• Experience working with Bloomberg APIs (i.e., BPIPE, SAPI, DAPI)
• Proficient in Java performance testing.

Business Skills 

• Experience in technical design and solutions providing technical expertise with a focus on efficiency, reliability, scalability, and security; including planning, evaluating, recommending, designing, operationalization , and supporting solutions in compliance with enterprise and industry standards.
• Support planning, evaluating, recommending, designing, operationalization, and support solutions in compliance with enterprise and industry standards.
• Ability to help teammates with technical implementations.
• Ability to work on multiple initiatives at the same time.
• Familiar with Agile, and SDLC processes

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. 

The Engineer I develops and maintains technical solutions that adhere to engineering and architectural design principles while meeting business requirements. Provides technical expertise with a focus on efficiency, reliability, scalability, and security; includes planning, evaluating, recommending, designing, operationalizing, and supporting solutions in compliance with enterprise and industry standards.

Depth & Scope:

• Advanced knowledge of specific domain or range of engineering frameworks, technology, tools, processes and procedures, as well as organization issues
• Advanced knowledge of TD applications, systems, networks, innovation, design activities, best practices, business/organization, Bank standards
• Advanced experience, knowledge and skills in own discipline
• Works independently with minimal guidance
• Acts as a SME resource for colleagues with less experience
• Solves complex problems; Takes a new perspective on existing solutions

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's or Graduate degree
• Strong academic background (e.g., computer science, engineering)
• 5-7 years relevant experience

Physical Requirements:

Never: 0%; Occasional: 1-33%; Frequent: 34-66%; Continuous: 67-100%

• Domestic Travel – Occasional
• International Travel – Never
• Performing sedentary work – Continuous
• Performing multiple tasks – Continuous
• Operating standard office equipment - Continuous
• Responding quickly to sounds – Occasional
• Sitting – Continuous
• Standing – Occasional
• Walking – Occasional
• Moving safely in confined spaces – Occasional
• Lifting/Carrying (under 25 lbs.) – Never
• Lifting/Carrying (over 25 lbs.) – Never
• Squatting – Never
• Bending – Never
• Kneeling – Never
• Crawling – Never
• Climbing – Never
• Reaching overhead – Never
• Reaching forward – Never
• Pushing – Never
• Pulling – Never
• Twisting – Never
• Concentrating for long periods of time – Continuous
• Applying common sense to deal with problems involving standardized situations – Continuous
• Reading, writing and comprehending instructions – Continuous
• Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing – Continuous

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. The listed or specified responsibilities & duties are considered essential functions for ADA purposes.

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 strive to make every interaction, product and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple.  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. 

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 base salary and variable compensation/incentive awards (e.g., eligibility for cash and/or equity incentive awards, generally through participation in an incentive plan) and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off (including Vacation PTO, Flex PTO, and Holiday PTO), banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition. 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.
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. 

If you’re passionate about helping clients and building deep, lasting relationships, TD offers diverse career paths where you can grow your expertise and make a meaningful impact.  

We're committed to your success and foster a respectful workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, everyone has fair opportunities to grow, and you can unlock your full potential to achieve your career goals. Here at TD, we hire and develop the best.
 

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

TD Bank is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

If you are an applicant with a disability and need accommodations to complete the application process, please email TD Bank US Workplace Accommodations Program at [email protected].  Include your full name, best way to reach you and the accommodation needed to assist you with the applicant process.