Principal Engineer- Data Platform, Td Securities

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Location:
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaHours:37.5Line of Business:Technology SolutionsPay Details:$126,800
- $164,100 CADThis role is eligible for a discretionary variable compensation award that considers business and individual performance.
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Job Description
Department Overview:Building a World-Class, Diverse and Inclusive Technology TeamThink “TD Securities” if you crave meaningful work and the excitement of capital markets. Tech is constantly evolving, and we are evolving with it. We foster an entrepreneurial, start-up environment that uses the latest technology to change the future of TD Securities. The impact of your work will be felt as we collaborate to solve problems, embrace change, and help our customers around the globe work smarter.
Data Platform and Analytics: Velocity TeamAt the Velocity team, we are dedicated to driving change with speed and precision, striving to revolutionize the way data is consumed and managed.
As a Principal Engineer, you'll draw on your extensive technical development experience to take full ownership of data platform operations and customer delivery. You'll have autonomy to ensure the platform is stable, and value is delivered to its tenants.
This position is hands-on and technical, involving direct guidance to a small team of solution engineers as they address various data platform challenges. Your responsibilities will include technical guidance and/or creative work arounds for platform temporary limitations. In addition, monitor health and user FinOps statistics, cost optimization and customer satisfaction. Technical expertise in areas like cloud native infrastructure management, full stack software development, AKS, Azure, and related subjects are essential. If we have a problem, lets use code to solve it Role & ResponsibilitiesWhat are we looking for:You enjoy high exposure program that have difficult problems to solve.
Experience in designing and operating a Data Platform from ingestion to consumption.
Expert level in one or more programming languages (i.
E. Java, Python, Javascript, Scala).
Exposure with AKS/Docker, Virtual Machines, streaming, API development and more.
Design/Research/Implement required process components to enable TD Azure functionalities (i.
E. Unity Catalog, Azure Purview ..)Experience with 3rd party vendors is a plus (i.
E. Dremio / Confluent Kafka)Exceptional communication skills and ability to coordinate and liaison with multiple parties involved to align to strategic data platform and execution of needed components.
Ability to create Architectural diagrams with networking focus and system design.
Experience in PaaS offerings from Azure / GCP / DatabricksMust be able to lead complex projects and competing priorities with a high level of technical acumen and strong communication skills.
You'll also analyze all platform level changes, monitor application impact, and provide appropriate technical solutions to resolve all issues quickly and efficiently.
Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.
Achieves product commitments (and influences others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills and contributes to or led technology communities.
Uses automation, system tools, open-source solutions, observability and 'security first' principles in daily work.
Contributes to team agile ceremonies, leads demos and presentations, helps new engineers learn established normsInitiates high level solution design approaches, and guides team to achieve desired key software delivery capabilities using automated, coded enterprise and observability.
Participates in internal speaking and advocacy events.
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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 in Engineering or Technical Certificate.
Expert knowledge one or many of the follow (Java, Python, JavaScript)Experience operating in a cloud environment.8+ years relevant experience.
Willingness and strength in providing guidance and influencing multiple teams across a broad spectrum of initiatives and functional domains.
Core Skills/Experiences:Azure Cloud Knowledge (Azure Data Lak