IT Support Specialist

Work Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:

37.5

Line of Business:

Technology Solutions

Pay Details:

$96,900 - $136,800 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

TD Securities provides a wide range of capital market products and services to corporate, government and institutional clients who choose us for our knowledge and experience in six key areas of finance: Investment Banking, Debt Capital Markets, Institutional Equities, Private Equity, Precious Metals and Foreign Exchange & Money Market. Our services include the underwriting and distribution of new debt and equity issues, providing advice on strategic acquisitions and divestitures, and executing daily trading and investment needs.

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 for our clients every day.

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 elevate issues as required.
• Comply with both disaster and business recove