Solutions Design IT Specialist

Solutions Design IT Specialist Work Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Hours: 37.5 per week Line of Business: Technology Solutions Pay: $125,000 – $156,000 CAD (base salary. Variable compensation eligible.) Company Description With more than 3,500 people in 13 offices around the world, TD Securities provides a wide range of capital market products and services to corporate, government and institutional clients. TD Securities offers expertise in investment banking, capital markets, interest rate, currency and derivative products, and commodities. Our services include underwriting and distribution of new debt and equity issues, advice on strategic acquisitions and divestitures, and executing daily trading and investment needs. Being part of the TD Bank Group, we draw on the strengths, resources and network of one of the largest North American financial institutions to deliver value to our clients every day. Role Overview The Mass and Core Payment Technology Team is looking for a Senior Solutions Design IT Specialist to contribute to the build of applications from scratch as well as maintain them. The team is responsible for creating new payment rails such as Visa Money Transfer, North Bound Money Movement, Domestic Account‑to‑Account, Domestic Bill payments, EFTs, ACHs, and enhancing shared services like file transformations interfacing mailboxes/kafka. The core dev team is in Toronto with support from onshore and Singapore resources. The ideal candidate is a self‑starting, motivated, high‑performing professional who will be a strong contributor in a dynamic technology organization at a major bank. The role involves building upon the intraday platform and collaborating closely with the TDS Data Platform and various valuation data producers. Responsibilities Application design and development activities. Hands‑on experience with Java/Spring Boot applications. Develop and document a detailed solution design within SDS; impart subject‑matter expertise throughout the lifecycle. Expert knowledge of the business, broader organization, technical environment, standards, processes, tools and procedures; familiarity with multiple programming languages and operating systems. Work autonomously in a lead capacity on a diverse range of activities (e.g., design, support of technical business solutions) and coach, educate and monitor the work of others. Act as the primary subject‑matter expert; counsel clients and project teams on all aspects of research, analysis, design, software support, and development of technical solutions. Strengthen coaching and advising of clients, partners and project teams, acting as an internal expert. Participate in complex application and systems development and programming. Propose solution options and generate stakeholder support. Produce high‑quality functional, technical and user interface designs. Translate business, Enterprise Architecture, system performance and development standards into functional, technical and UI designs for an application or system. Review technical deliverables for quality; identify gaps or redesign as needed. Define metrics and performance goals with technology partners and peers. Respect TD's technology delivery practices and standards, project management disciplines, business technology architecture, and risk and production capacity – encompassing requirements, documentation, scope estimates and costs. Deliver effective solutions by meeting milestones and ensuring project deliverables are on time, within budget, and meet corporate quality and security standards. Conduct code reviews to address quality, standards compliance, reusability, and ease of maintenance; perform operational readiness reviews and L3 production troubleshooting support. Support knowledge management processes and ensure knowledge is codified, monitored, tracked and managed. Ensure design leverages reusable components, traces back to business requirements, and new modules are designed with reusability. Identify and address issues that affect application integrity (e.g., cross‑capability/release issues). Lead, inspire, and mentor team members on software development best practices and Agile practices. Qualifications & Skills Must Have Skills: 10+ years of end‑to‑end development and design experience (J2EE, Java 8) 10+ years with frameworks like Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring Security (OAuth, LDAP) 5+ years of RESTful API development 5+ years of database knowledge, preferably Oracle Hands‑on experience with Maven, Jenkins, Gradle, Git, Nexus 3+ years building Kafka‑based applications (KStream/producer‑consumer) / MQ Strong knowledge of core Java Experience with banking domain projects Engagement, coordination, and change management across multiple groups Leadership of junior team members Good to Have: Experience building or working on file processing applications Agile/Waterfall and SDLC/PMBC processes Hands‑on experience with SSO, MFA, PingFederate, OIDC, OAuth, API gateway Experience with continuous integration and test‑driven methodologies Education BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent work experience. Additional Information Inspire a positive work environment and 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. Build trust with business and technology partners and cultivate winning relationships. Commit to productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency. Training & Onboarding We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure you have 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 (e.g., 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 Seniority Level Mid‑Senior level Employment Type Full‑time Job Function Sales and Business Development Industries Investment Banking #J-18808-Ljbffr