Senior Java Developer - TDS (US)

Senior Developer Role in Zelle and RTP technology team. This role will focus on the design, development, and maintenance of applications that support real time payments products and services offered to our TD customers. You'll be exposed to stretch assignments as you take on large-scale, complex and/or enterprise-wide projects.

Job Responsibilities

• Application design and development activities
• Development and support of Regulatory Reporting applications, either SaaS or TD hosted Java applications.
• Hands-on Java/Springboot development
• Troubleshooting production issues for Java applications as L3 support.
• Analyze and evaluate technical aspects of projects, enhancements, fixes, and infrastructure changes to determine impact on interfacing systems.
• Work with Vendors and internal IT Infrastructure Teams on currency-related upgrades.
• Work with Vendors, internal IT Infrastructure Teams, and Business partners on the remediation of audit findings and vulnerabilities to ensure adhere to TD\'s security controls and standards.
• Support the Business and Operations Teams during UAT testing for the Vendor\'s Production releases.
• Support UAT testing including assisting with lower environment setup between application and downstream systems. Help resolve technical issues and where necessary, log defects on Vendor ticketing system.
• Document and diagram data and process flows as well as infrastructure components.
• Maintenance of proper artifact repositories for audit purposes.
• Coordinate digital certificate renewals in all environments.
• Set the technical direction for the product and influence the overall architectural direction
• Communicate design goals to the developers of the team
• Identify and leverage best practices in continuous integration and delivery
• Help drive transformation by continuously looking for ways to automate existing processes
• Explore new capabilities and technologies to drive innovation
• Continually drive to improve the product and the customer experience
• Provide leadership on the development of a robust and efficient application
• Lead, Inspire and Mentor team members on the use of Software Development best practices and Agile practices

Job 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, Technical Certificate, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years relevant experience and readiness to manage a sizeable group or team of IT professionals responsible for development/solutions design and/or system enhancements, new releases, or project deliverables with increasing complexity of moderate to broad scope.
• Proven success in problem solving and producing strategies and plans for operational improvement.
• Expert knowledge of the business, technology standards, managing people and projects.
• 5+ years of experience programming with Spring Boot 2, Spring Data (JPA, JDBC), Java 8, Scala, Spring Security (OAuth, LDAP).
• Practical experience designing and developing web-services using modern practices/techniques including Domain-Driven Design, Event Storming, Event Sourcing and CQRS.
• Experience with development tools and frameworks such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle, Git, and Nexus.
• A passion for simplifying and automating work, for making things better, for being efficient and helping others
• Knowledge of SSO, MFA, PingFed, OIDC, OAuth.
• Able to keep up to date with emerging technology industry standards.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills as well as the ability to establish a good rapport with stakeholders at various levels.
• Excellent collaboration skills as well as the ability to work efficiently under minimum supervision.
• Demonstrated ability to follow up on issues independently and ensure they are resolved promptly, escalating when necessary.
• Self-starter, detailed-oriented and organized with strong time-management skills and the ability to multi-task effectively within a fast-paced environment.

Nice To Have

• Experience with React.js, React-Native, Redux
• Experience with MQ technologies, like Kafka would be an asset.
• GitHub Workflows/Actions.
• Payment Domain

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

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.
• Embrace change and witness amazing things happen – from the inside.

The IT Senior Developer TD Securities provides a broad range of system solutions development to business problems through the development and programming of applications / systems.

Depth & Scope:

• Responsible for analyzing a broad range of business requirements, conducting program / system research and analysis to identify key components for solutions delivery and problem resolution
• Develops new applications and performs unit / component test for new application development initiatives aligned to business needs and in accordance with technology architecture standards
• Ensures effective communication of solutions development requirements for respective area and contributes to project plans, estimations, timelines and status updates to support management team / clients on prioritizing new and existing projects against IT requirements and business objectives
• Informs key stakeholders of any issues that may impact other areas of the project and resolves or escalates issues as required
• Supports business inquiries and business activities through execution of small enhancements and break / fix implementations (e.g. source code changes)
• Works with Business Analysts / Systems Analysts, other technology Developers / Solution Designers to ensure the configuration and custom components meet application requirements and performance goals
• Creates and maintains quality code, ensures defect free programming consistent with standards; provides code maintenance and supports during testing cycles and post-production deployment and participate in reviewing peer coding
• Adheres to standard security coding practices to ensure application is free of most common coding vulnerabilities
• Participates in identifying and recommending development / testing solutions / tools in support of project / application objectives
• Completes unit and integration testing for conformance to standards and adherence to design specifications
• Complies with well-defined enterprise technology delivery practices and standards and project management disciplines by participating in scope assessment, risk and cost analysis
• Assists in the development / maintenance of comprehensive processes for prevention of issues and participate in problem determination and timely resolution of incidents applying appropriate quality measures
• Perform Systems Administration of applications / environments supported by the LOB, monitors application / service performance, and performs configuration, backup, authentication & tuning
• Ensure both state-of-health monitoring and monthly SLA targets are in place, and are being met
• Provides technical expertise during Incident management, analyzes incident reports and outages, performs impact assessment for incidents and facilitates internal and external communication throughout incident resolution
• Continuously enhances knowledge / expertise in area and keeps current with leading-edge technologies, emerging trends/developments and grows knowledge of the business, applications, infrastructure, analytical tools and techniques
• Prioritizes and manages own workload in order to deliver quality results and meet timelines as assigned
• Supports a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensures timely communication of issues/ points of interest
• Identifies and recommends opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency of the business unit and/or team
• Establishes effective relationships across multiple business and technology partners, program and project managers
• Participates in knowledge transfer within the team and business units
• Impact assessment for incidents and facilitates internal and external communication throughout incident resolution

Education & Experience:

• College degree, or specialized training / equivalent work experience
• 3-5 Years of related experience

Physical Requirements

• 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.) – Occasional
• Lifting/Carrying (over 25 lbs.) – Never
• Squatting – Occasional
• Bending – Occasional
• Kneeling – Never
• Crawling – Never
• Climbing – Never
• Reaching overhead – Never
• Reaching forward – Occasional
• 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 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. 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. We are growth-oriented, people-focused, and community-minded. As a team, we work to deliver value for our clients every day.

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. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience, or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues, there are many different career paths within our organization at TD – and we’re committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.

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 View email address on click.appcast.io. Include your full name, best way to reach you and the accommodation needed to assist you with the applicant process.