Application Support System Engineer Jobs in Toronto, ON

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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 escalate issues as required.

• Comply with both disaster and business recovery plans.

• Identify/implement process improvements to enhance revenue, customer experience and reduce costs.

• Support business case development, RFI/RFP and SLAs with vendors.

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 or Technical Certificate.

• 7+ years relevant experience.

• Knowledge, experience working with trading application technologies (vendors and internal): vendors such as Fidessa and Raptor Trading system

• Experience with monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, ITRS, Autosys. Scripting rules for custom alerting

• Strong understand of the Service Now ITIL: Change, Incident and Problem management

• Team leader, collaborating with members from different regions

• Opportunities to automate and improve current inefficiency, such as monthly manual recons.

• Familiar with FIX trading protocol.

• Strong SQL scripting skills with Oracle and MongoDB.

• Should be comfortable assessing trading systems/components to investigate trade breaks, connectivity and data issues

• Excellent debugging and analytic skills: ability to isolate root cause across infrastructure, application and database stacks

• Highly assertive communication skill with ability to multi-task

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

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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 strive to make every interaction, product and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple. 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.

Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.

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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.

Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.

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.

If you're passionate about helping clients and building deep, lasting relationships, TD offers diverse career paths where you can grow your expertise and make a meaningful impact.

We're committed to your success and foster a respectful workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, everyone has fair opportunities to grow, and you can unlock your full potential to achieve your career goals. Here at TD, we hire and develop the best.

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
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