Software Engineer II in Toronto

Work Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours: 37.5

Line Of Business: Technology Solutions

Pay Details: $81,600 - $115,200 CAD

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.

Job Description:

• Develop new solutions as required for engineering programs and projects within assigned area.
• Develop new features and perform unit/component tests for new application development initiatives aligned to business needs and in accordance with technology architecture standards.
• Support business enquiries and activities through execution of small enhancements and break/fix implementations (e.g., source code changes).
• May also be responsible for peer code review.
• Work with technology partners to ensure the configuration and custom components meet application requirements and performance goals.
• Analyze the technical requirements to recommend pragmatic and sound engineering specific solutions for own area; may be involved in coding/story estimates.
• Monitor product lifecycles, ensuring specifications and functionality support business objectives and engineering decisions, undertaking re-development where required.
• Document and verify system components, applications, system infrastructure, security, integration, operability and engineering related architecture designs associated with a program or project.
• Participate in quality management reviews, particularly reviews of the designs, prototypes and other requirements work products to ensure they fulfill the requirements.
• Create and maintain quality code, ensure defect-free programming consistent with standards; provide code maintenance and support during testing cycles and post-production deployment.
• Provide technical expertise during incident management, analyze incident reports and outages, perform impact assessment for incidents and facilitate internal and external communication throughout incident resolution.
• Participate in identifying and recommending development/testing solutions/tools in support of project/application objectives.
• Assist 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.

Shareholder Responsibilities:

• Adhere to enterprise frameworks or methodologies that relate to software engineering activities.
• Ensure respective programs/policies/practices are well managed, meet business needs, comply with internal and external requirements, and align with business priorities.
• Collaboratively engage with relevant stakeholders at all levels, both internal and external, to shift from finding defects to proactively preventing defects.
• Actively seek and support continuous improvement and automation opportunities within the engineering practice.
• Conduct meaningful analysis at the functional or enterprise level using results to draw conclusions, make recommendations, assess the effectiveness of programs/policies/practices.
• Identify opportunities to minimize cost, provide recommendations and/or deliver corresponding strategic solutions to support cost effectiveness and enhance stakeholder experience.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to quality, standards compliance, reusability and ease of maintenance.
• Monitor service, productivity and assess efficiency levels within own function and implement continuous process/performance improvements where opportunities exist.
• Lead/facilitate and/or implement actions/remediation plans to address performance/risk/governance issues.
• Actively manage relationships within and across various business lines, corporate and/or control functions and ensure alignment with enterprise and/or regulatory requirements.
• Protect the interests of the organization – identify and manage risks, and elevate non-standard, high-risk activities as necessary.
• Keep abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts.
• Maintain a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite.

Employee/Team Responsibilities:

• Participate fully as a member of the team, support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork.
• Provide thought leadership and/or industry knowledge for quality engineering best practices and participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit.
• Keep current on emerging trends/developments and grow knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques.
• Participate in personal performance management and development activities, including cross-training within own team.
• Actively mentor and enable team members by sharing knowledge and leveraging engineering best practices.
• Lead, motivate and develop relationships with internal and external business partners/stakeholders to develop productive working relationships.
• Contribute to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce.
• Act as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the bank, both internally and/or externally.

Breadth & Depth:

• Advanced knowledge of specific domain or range of engineering frameworks, technology, tools, processes and procedures, as well as organization issues.
• Performs complex to difficult technical tasks independently.
• Advanced knowledge of technology, tools, various programming languages, processes, and procedures.
• Develops program specifications; adapts, integrates, codes, tests and debugs programs; and is responsible for executing.
• Uses existing procedures to solve routine problems; makes limited exceptions.
• Generally reports to a Practice lead.

Experience And / Or Education:

• Undergraduate degree, Postgraduate degree or Technical Certificate.
• Strong academic background (e.g., computer science, engineering).
• 3-5 years relevant experience.