Appraiser Iii - Td Insurance Pca jobs at Td Bank in Canada, Toronto

The primary accountabilities for this position are:

• Design and develop new and existing applications
• Responsiblefor producing technical deliverables frominception through to development
• Leverage best practices in development, architecturalprinciples, continuousintegration and delivery
• Assist in technical discussions todrive robust modernizedsolutions for existing and future projects
• Write clean code that ismaintainable, optimized andaligns to best practices
• Ensure that code is properly unit testedand has significant codecoverage
• Proactively explorenew capabilities to drive technology innovations
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to transform requirements into technical requirements
• Work closely withother developers,architects,and SMEs toproduce quality technical solutions that meets the business requirements
• Comply with agile methodology, system development life cycle (SDLC) and project management methodology (PMLC)
• Work effectively as a team, supporting other members of the team
• Adhereto application security standardsand best practices to ensure application is secureand free of

OtherQualifications/Skills/Experience:

• Strong Java and problem solving skills
• 2+ years ofexperience developingjava web applicationsusing Java, Springboot, Spring framework
• Good understanding of RESTful API concept and best practices
• Experience in using web and application servers such as Apache Tomcat
• Good knowledgeofSQL and experiencein using database engines such as MySQL, SQL Server or DB2
• Working experience with testing tools such as:
• Unit testing framework: JUnit, Spring test, Mockito
• Integration testing tools: Postman, SOAP UI
• Ability to understand, develop, enhance, and support highly customizedapplications andAPIs
• Experience inbuilding secure webapplications (Oauth2, JWT and/or Spring security)
• Knowledge of version control systems such as Git or SVN
• Experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies
• Strong verbal and written communication skills are essential
• Effective time and task management skills, including the ability to manage concurrentdeliverables and workin a fast paced,deadline-oriented environment
• Self-starter, demonstrated ability to take independent action to achieve results
• Ability assist intranslating businessrequirements intotechnical requirements
• A positive can-do attitude with openness to promoting knowledge sharing
• Self-motivated team player with high energy and ability to work independently as well as within a team
• Ability to self-learn new tools quickly to innovate work and success

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Azure Cloud Service
• Experience in working with modern CI/CD tools
• Experience with Kafka

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.

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.

We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

CUSTOMER

• Execute on Engineering strategy as it relates to the introduction of tools and the automation of build, test, release and configure activities across Application, Platform and Infrastructure
• Lead the creation of solution options and ultimately a comprehensive end-to-end solution and coordinate relevant stakeholders, as required to support development initiatives; following a "build it, break it, fix it mentality".
• Responsible for developing and documenting detailed solution design and act as an application SME through the design and development lifecycle ensuring alignment with Architecture
• Accountable for complex applications/systems development, programming /coding
• Develop functional, technical and user interface designs for an application / system that meets the defined requirements (business, enterprise architecture direction, system performance and development standards)
• Consult on development of requirements and specifications and apply functional knowledge of business functions to design optimal software / systems
• Review technical deliverables throughout detailed design and development phase to ensure quality adherence and identify gaps or redesign requirements as needed
• Identify, recommend, source, negotiate and implement improvements/ solutions (buy/build/reuse) to enhance customer experience, availability, and/or reduce cost in support of client needs
• Work with Technology partners to define metrics and performance goals for the application
• Identify and address application and data issues and cross-capability and cross-release issues that affect application integrity
• Research/analyze business requirements to evaluate and recommend optimal solutions within business technology architecture; collect environment requirements for infrastructure implementation by analyzing the current system environment, using technical tools and utilities
• Work with Architects to ensure that environment modifications interact appropriately, data conversion impacts are considered, and other areas of impact are addressed and meet performance requirements of the project
• Contribute to the advancement of the TD engineering practice through strong collaboration, research, analytic, and problem-solving skills

SHAREHOLDER

• Adhere to enterprise frameworks or methodologies that relate to software engineering activities
• Ensure respective programs/ policies/practices are well managed, meets business needs, complies with internal and external requirements, and aligns 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 to enhance stakeholder experience
• Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to quality, standards compliance, reusability and ease of maintenance, Operational Readiness Reviews, and supporting gating and review sign-offs for solution design
• Monitor service, productivity and assess efficiency levels within own function and implement continuous process / performance improvements where opportunities exists
• 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 escalate 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

• Participate fully as a member of the team, support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest
• 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
• Keep others informed and up-to-date about the status / progress of projects and / or all relevant or useful information related to day-to-day activities
• Actively mentors and enables team members by sharing knowledge and leveraging engineering best practices.
• Supports the team by providing guidance and proactively identifying and resolving issues
• 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

• Expert knowledge of the business, the broader organization, technical environment, processes, procedures, tools and other relevant technology areas (e.g. Architecture, Infrastructure, Security etc.) from a design / support / solutions perspective
• Primary subject matter expert in multiple areas and consults with clients/or project teams with respect to all aspects of research, analysis, design, hardware / software support
• Expert knowledge of specific domain or range of engineering frameworks, technology, tools, processes and procedures, as well as organization issues
• Works independently and/or autonomously as a senior/ lead on a diverse range of tasks / operational support of solutions
• Generally reports to a Practice Lead

EXPERIENCE AND / OR EDUCATION

• University or Graduate / post graduate degree in Computer Science or related Engineering discipline; or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of experience in hands on software development, using Java Springboot, microservice architecture / RESTful APIs / JSON/GraphQL, relational database development (SQL Server) in cloud CI/CD based deployment environment
• Full-stack development experience is a bonus.
• Experience working in fast paced agile environment teams.
• Demonstrated track record in addressing and resolving highly complex and multifaceted development-related issues, and coaching the team of software developers toward target state solution designs

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.

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.

We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Job Responsibilities:

• Independently assess litigation files, prepare litigation documents, correspondence, organize and catalogue legal documents, correspond directly with customers, internal and external lawyers and other professionals, other TD staff and agents, collect and track data and appropriately manage the litigation as necessary, including independently managing a portfolio of small claims court cases.

• Assist with the creation and delivery of business, enterprise and board level reports relating tolitigation.

• Provide wide range of support to litigation team, as well as other individual counsel within TD Legal.

• Resolve, under supervision of counsel, a wide range of legal issues incidental to management of litigation matters.

• Assist in the creation and maintenance of discovery indexes, organize case files, review and analyze documents for production and coordination with eDiscovery support.

• Participate in the retrieval and/or preparation of information, witnesses and legal documents for internal and external counsel.

• Create/develop forms/tools and templates.

• Use software programs and other departmental tools or equipment with ease, efficiency and provide appropriatedocuments/informationthat legal counsel team members require.

Job Requirements :

Specific EducationalRequirements/Accreditations:

• Law Clerk or Paralegal designation.

• At least five years previous litigation experience gained in a law firm or financial institution is required.

• This position requires you to be detail oriented, well organized, have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Advanced computer literacy (MS Office, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Internet Explorer, legal research tools, data mining on a variety of internal and external systems, familiarity with e-Discovery process, procedure and tools a plus.)

• Must be able to work independently, with limited supervision and cooperatively with other staff members and have the flexibility to take on tasks assigned to meet Department needs.

• Must be able to multi-task, prioritize and manage workflow of a large and diverse portfolio of litigation and administrative tasks to ensure quality and efficiency, meet deadlines and be flexible in adjusting to changing work priorities.

• You must be an enthusiastic team player continually striving for service excellence.

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.

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.

We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a primary liaison between portfolio management and distribution teams/business development teams to identify opportunities and lead the delivery of investment insights to clients.
• Represent TDAM's fixed income investment team in client, consultant and advisor meetings
• Communicate TDAM’s competitive advantages effectively through client-facing activities, investment solution analysis, presentation design, and investment writing.
• Maintain comprehensive knowledge of the competitor landscape and keep distribution teams informed of industry trends.
• Collaborate with distribution, investment and product teams to identify trends and propose new strategies and products to internal and external stakeholders.
• Act as a subject matter expert in the creation of communication content.
• Provide updates on market performance, draft opinion pieces, maintain template presentation materials, and write quarterly portfolio commentaries.
• Collaborate with fellow Client Portfolio Managers to ensure consistent and high standards of quality and efficiency in the content delivered to clients and stakeholders.

Qualifications/Skills/Experience:

• CFA designation, along with a relevant undergraduate degree.
• Minimum of 10 years' experience in fixed income investments
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to effectively convey complex solutions and influence stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Exceptional organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects concurrently.
• Strong business acumen and demonstrated ability to propel business growth
• Proficiency in technology and its application in analytical and portfolio management settings.
• Self-starter with the ability to function with minimal supervision and work effectively both independently and collaboratively within a team environment.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, time-sensitive, and dynamic team environment.
• Understanding of the needs across a broad range of client channels, including retail and institutional investors.
• Acumen in identifying process improvements and developing compelling value propositions for investment strategies.

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.

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.

We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Job Description:

This role is reporting into the Senior Manager, Compensation, TD Securities Finance, and will be responsible for the reporting of compensation related matters, advice and analysis.

• Lead the production i.e. end-to-end process of booking entries for Wholesale Banking variable compensation accruals with a focus on highlighting key drivers of results and ongoing impacts driving changes to the business.

• Serve as a first point of contact to stakeholders for commentaries, supporting documentation, and team administrative requests.

• Understand and revise the single rate funding model to determine variable compensation pool for monthly accruals, plan and forecast cycles.

• Liaise with our finance and HR partners to gather relevant information to understand and prepare relevant financial commentary.

• Perform G/L reconciliations and attest to the variable compensation, severance and restructuring string balances.

• Process ad-hoc requests and implement updates to legacy processes.

• Identify innovative ideas to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the team's processes and participate in the remediation efforts in streamlining account attestation processes.

• Continuously develop value added management reporting and build a fundamental understanding of business strategies and the impacts and drivers of financial results for TD Securities.

• Ability to develop and maintain good relationships with key business and finance partners, and other stakeholders, and effectively communicate relevant / meaningful recommendations to senior management.

• Strong analytical and financial modelling capabilities required to understand and interpret financial results.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.

• Strong organizational, prioritization, and time management skills to meet deadlines with the ability to multi-task and work independently.

• You are required to demonstrate governance, control and risk management behaviors in alignment with TD policies and practices.

• Undergraduate degree

• 3+ years relevant experience

• Accounting or industry specific designation is preferred (i.e. CA, CMA, CGA, CFA, MBA)

• High level proficiency in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

• Understanding of the Bank’s management and financial reporting processes

• Knowledge of the Bank’s financial reporting system (i.e. Hyperion and prior experience in running Hyperion queries is preferred)

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.

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.

We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

• Develop high quality codes based on requirements for web UI, RestAPI and data pipeline (ETL).

• Perform unit testing & integration testing.

• Find opportunities to optimize current codes.

• Ability to pinpoint of root cause and resolve production issues.

• Leverage best practices in continuous integration and delivery.

• Drive transformation by continuously looking for ways to improve existing processes, architecture , and software quality.

• Explore new capabilities and technologies to drive innovation.

• Java/JEE

• Spark/Scala

• Big Data/Hadoop/Hive

• Spring Boot/Angular/RestAPI

• Cassandra/No SQL database

• MS SQL Server

• Git

• 7+ years of Java/JEE experience

• Experience in the Spring tech stack and building microservices using Spring Boot.

• Experience in Spark/Scala.

• Experience in Linux environment.

• Experience in designing and integrating with REST API.

• Experience working with messaging technologies.

• Experience with Hadoop, Spark, Parquet or similar Big Data technologies.

• Experience with RDBMS, demonstrable fluency in SQL and any non-relational db such as Cassandra (is preferred).

• Experience of Git, CI/CD toolset (Maven), Jenkins, working within an Agile environment

• Strong understanding of design patterns and coding practices

• Experience working with scalable and low latency systems.

• A passion for simplifying and automating work, for making things better, for being efficient and helping others.

• Good communication skills. Experience in collaborating efficiently within a global team

• Demonstrable experience working in a fast-paced environment, working with PMs and our business sponsors

• Nice to have - Knowledge of capital markets products including derivatives and cross-asset products

• Nice to have - Hands-on experience with market risk and/or PnL (profit and loss)

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.

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.

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.

We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW

The Architect will design the solution architecture end-to-end, follow enterprise architecture guidelines, work primarily within projects/products, contribute to strategic plans as needed, and lead project/product architecture blueprints at high and low level.

CUSTOMER

• Apply a multi-disciplined expertise with database, application, client tiers, layering of software, build, test and deploy strategies to create the overall design of software (including applications, infrastructure, middleware) and guide how the sub-components are developed by different teams
• Elevate focus on applications and data as differentiators for the customer experience, anchored in sound foundational elements of Infrastructure and Platforms
• Advise on suitability of technology stacks todefine principles/ key constraints for solution components; rallies the team around these principles to determine security / scalability approach, and impact assessments for future design
• Monitor and report on progress and collaborate broadly with other practitioners, including designers, engineers, and other applicable business stakeholders to ensure the necessary features for the products and applications are developed within assigned portfolio
• Design tests that will be implemented to keep the software functional; supports issue analysis and fix activities during test phases, as well as production issue resolution
• Collaborate with Practices, actively driving capability creation; mentoring and training junior colleagues to be adaptive, staying on top of expanding technologies and engineering trends and creating highly visual and functional solutions

SHAREHOLDER

• Set service-level objectives (SLO) and exercise key decision rights of the FSA role
• Focus on reliability, scalability, and the development of the architectural infrastructure; including highly complex and scalable systems​
• Develop observability standards to ensure that production systems operate under known conditions and transparently provides these measurements to anticipate when errors or failures can arise
• Lead interaction with governance and control groups, (e.g. regulatory / operational risk, compliance and audit) to provide subject matter expertise and consult on risk issues related to architectural technology and tools
• Lead or contribute to cross-functional / enterprise initiatives as an organizational or subject matter expert helping to identify risk / provide guidance for significant and complex situations
• Monitor and report on the status of the products / projects and applications within assigned product, ensuring projects are compliant with technology domain architecture, and review in-progress activity against technology architecture and development standards
• Foresee architectural issues / gaps and identify emerging industry trends to recommend value-added architectural improvements that will alleviate technology debt and build resilient solutions
• Map processes and sub-processes that bridge the gap between business problems and technology solutions
• Collaborate within practices, platforms or journeys comprised of diverse and complementary skills; inspiring the team to embrace changes and continually advance collective knowledge of technical tools / trends
• Protect the interests of the organization – identify and manage risks, and escalate 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

• Participate fully as a member of the team, support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest
• 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
• Keep others informed and up-to-date about the status / progress of projects and / or all relevant or useful information related to day-to-day activities
• Contribute to team development of skills and capabilities through mentorship of others, by sharing knowledge and experiences and leveraging best practices
• Work collaboratively with the team and leadership to proactively identify and resolve issues related to product quality
• 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 Architecture and the bank, both internally and/or externally

BREADTH & DEPTH

• Seasoned individual contributor role with expert knowledge of specific enterprise and/or functional domain(s) and a demonstrated track record working with a broad range of architecture frameworks, technology, tools, processes and procedures
• Exceptional collaboration, communication, negotiation and client-facing skills (written and verbal)
• Big-picture thinker, with ability to anticipate architectural gaps and identify emerging trends through both advanced business acumen and highly specialized technical knowledge of TD and its applications, programming languages, industry best practices, Bank standards, infrastructure and architectural design / solutions
• Architect assigned to work autonomously on high profile, complex and/or high-risk technology projects with significant impact to the organization

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

• Undergraduate degree or Technical Certificate (Graduate degree preferred)
• 10+ years relevant experience developing a variety of platforms
• 7+ years of solution architecture experience ideally in the Insurance industry
• Demonstrated experience with owning and leading architectural solutions in a complex environment
• Strong knowledge of Guidewire Suite, including Guidewire Cloud Platform, Policy Center, Billing Center, ideally with relevant certifications with prior experience integrating with Guidewire
• Understanding of DevSecOps and experience with Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Pair programming and / or Test-Driven Development is an asset (i.e., ability to review or provide feedback to Unit, Integration and Functional Tests)
• Familiarity with SAFe agile methodology an asset
• Knowledge of AWS/Azure an asset

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.

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.

We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.