דרושים Applied Machine Learning Scientist Ii ב-Td Bank ב-Canada, Toronto

Job Description:

The Client Due Diligence (CDD) team conducts due diligence on TD Securities clients during onboarding, periodic reviews, and on an ongoing basis. The team ensures compliance with Global AML and other regulatory requirements, mitigating operational, regulatory, and reputational risks.

JobDescription/Accountabilities:

- Conduct AML reviews: Verify AML requirements (KYC, FATCA, CIRO, CRS), ensuring compliance during onboarding, periodic reviews, and ad-hoc events.

- Conduct in-depth research using independent online sources to gather requisite information for client due diligence.

- Maintain audit trails: Ensure accurate tracking of incoming requests and documentation throughout the process.

- Deliver exceptional quality: Perform accurate data entry, mitigating risks related to regulatory, financial, operational, or reputational exposure.

- Identify opportunities for improvement: Engage in process enhancement initiatives to improve efficiency.

- Assist with strategic initiatives and participate in the rollout and adoption of new operational and regulatory initiatives.

Job Requirements:

- Ability to work on routine and ad-hoc requests within defined parameters, while handling operational and reporting functions.

- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills to meet deadlines in a high-volume environment.

- Proficiency with MS Office tools, particularly Excel, and experience with Bloomberg/Impact. Technical skills in UI Path, Alteryx, VBA are a plus.

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

• Develop new solutions as required for engineering programs and projects within assigned area, utilizing Azure Databricks for data processing and analytics.
• Develop new features and perform unit/component testing for new application development initiatives aligned to business needs and in accordance with Azure architecture standards.
• Support business inquiries and activities through execution of small enhancements and break/fix implementations (e.g., source code changes) using Azure Data Factory pipelines and Synapse Analytics.
• Work with technology partners to ensure the configuration and custom components meet application requirements and performance goals, particularly in Azure environments.
• Analyze technical requirements to recommend pragmatic and sound Azure-specific solutions for own area, including coding/story estimates.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and internal technology partners to ensure Azure engineering solutions meet technical direction, requirements, performance, time-to-market, and innovation goals.
• Monitor Azure product lifecycles, ensuring specifications and functionality support business objectives and engineering decisions, undertaking re-development where required.
• Document and verify Azure 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 Azure designs, prototypes, and other requirements work products to ensure they fulfill the requirements.
• Create and maintain quality code, ensuring defect-free programming consistent with Azure standards; provide code maintenance and support during testing cycles and post-production deployment and participate in reviewing peer coding.
• 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.
• Assist in thedevelopment/maintenanceof comprehensive processes for prevention of issues and participate in problem determination and timely resolution of incidents applying appropriate quality measures.

SHAREHOLDER

• Adhere to enterprise frameworks or methodologies that relate to Azure software engineering activities.
• Ensure respectiveprograms/policies/practicesare 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 in Azure solutions.
• Actively seek and support continuous improvement and automation opportunities within Azure engineering practices.
• Conduct meaningful analysis at the functional or enterprise level using results to draw conclusions, make recommendations, assess the effectiveness ofprograms/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, Operational Readiness Reviews, and supporting gating and review sign-offs for Azure solution design.
• 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 addressperformance/risk/governanceissues.
• 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 Azure 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 Azure engineering best practices and participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit.
• Keep current on emerging Azure 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 mentor and enable team members by sharing knowledge and leveraging Azure engineering best practices.
• Support the team by providing guidance and proactively identifying and resolving Azure-related issues.
• Lead, motivate, and develop relationships with internal and external businesspartners/stakeholdersto 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 Azure engineering frameworks, tools, processes, and procedures, as well as organization issues.
• Performs complex to difficult Azure technical tasks independently.
• Advanced knowledge of Azure technologies, tools, various programming languages, processes, and procedures.
• Develops program specifications; adapts, integrates, codes, tests, and debugs Azure 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 in Azure technologies, including Databricks, ADLS, ADF, and Synapse Analytics.

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.

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.

Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if you’d like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.

Depth & Scope:

• Expert knowledge of specific domain or range of engineering frameworks, technology, tools, processes and procedures, as well as organization issues
• Expert knowledge of TD applications, systems, networks, innovation, design activities, best practices,business/organization,Bank standards, and may fulfill a governance role
• Expert knowledge and experience in own discipline; integrates knowledge of business and functional priorities
• Acts as a key contributor in a complex and critical environment
• May provide leadership to teams or projects; shares expertise
• Applies in-depth skills and broad knowledge of the business to address complex problems and non-standard situations

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's or Graduate degree
• Strong academic background (e.g., computer science, engineering)

Preferred Qualifications :

• 7 + years relevant experience in cyber security/ data protection.
• Expertise with network, email, and endpoint DLP.
• Expertise in DLP policy creation life cycle.
• Expert knowledge of Win Server 2016/2019 and/or RHEL/Unix
• Knowledge of PCI and other regulatory requirements for Data protection
• Understanding of firewalls, intrusion detection systems, authentication mechanisms, and networking protocols including SMTP, HTTP(s), DNS, TCP/IP, and SNMP as they pertain to security solutions.
• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical capabilities.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Skills in scripting and RegEx is nice to have

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.

Pay Details:

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. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.

As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.

Department Overview

The TDS Governance and Control team is a first line of defense team responsible for providing risk and compliance advice and oversight to ensure our TDS business partners have adequately considered, managed, and mitigated risks in day-to-day activities, operations, products and services, and are operating within risk appetite in compliance with regulatory requirements, Bank policies and risk appetite.

Members of TDS Governance & Control require sufficient expertise to review and assess whether the Business is adhering to internal (risk management, oversight function and audit) and regulatory requirements, requests, and expectations.

Job Description

The Vice President supports Volcker Program Governance across TD Securities (Globally) ensuring a strategic, risk-based approach for alignment with Volcker Rule standards.

The position has a high level of direct interaction with stakeholders across various functions including the Business, Risk, Product Control, Technology, and Compliance. This position will require an individual who can collaborate and engage effectively in terms of enhancing Volcker Program procedures, monitoring processes, controls, policies and developing and communicating a project plan/tracker and associated updates to a variety of stakeholders.

Job Accountabilities

The general accountabilities of this role include but are not limited to the following:

• Build and maintain constructive relationships with 1st and 2nd line partners as well as other key stakeholders to ensure Volcker Program governance delivery requirements are understood and met.

• Contribute to an effective, transparent culture of risk awareness, accountability, ethics, integrity, and conduct.

• Partner with stakeholders to ensure risks are adequately identified, assessed, and develop risk mitigation strategies to manage current and emerging risk exposures across the Program.

• Accountability to establish, deliver and support Volcker Program governance across TD Securities and other business segments.

• Support the Business in the design, implementation, and sustainment of controls within key processes and procedures.

• Partner with Business to proactively prepare for internal / regulatory requests, testing engagements, exams, and reviews.

• Ensuring a coordinated approach with other business areas, the broader organization and enterprise control functions.

• Build and cultivate an environment of innovation that leads to working smarter and simpler.

• Instill an attitude of critical thinking, risk management and understanding the needs of TD Securities colleagues.

• Ability to influence change and develop strong interpersonal relationships with team members and key partners.

Job Requirements

• Understanding of a global markets business in general including some product knowledge.

• Strong compliance and/or risk management assessment background.

• Some level of understanding of the Volcker Rule and its applicability to a global markets business and associated required metrics production and monitoring processes.

• Skillful communicator and influencer to build relationships, advance decision making, and effect change over time.

• Initiative-taking individual with a record of successfully assisting with implementing program enhancements.

• Ability to work with a pool of experts and ensures elevated levels of service even when the effort crosses organizational boundaries.

• Thrives in a challenging environment, managing multiple deadlines and priorities.

• Strategic thinking with solid problem solving and decision-making skills.

• Skilled at “connecting the dots” across issues in support of solutions and development ofstrategies to effectively manage and mitigate risk.

• Excellent interpersonal skills to effectively interact at all levels of the organization, coupled with a passion to build strong working relationships and contribute to a strong team environment.

• Strong organizational/time management skills.

• Flexibility to quickly adapt to changing requirements and execute on non-routine ad-hoc deliverables.

• A positive "can do" attitude with a curiosity and willingness to learn and grow, as well as share knowledge and experience.

• Proficiency in Microsoft applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), and Share Point.

Additional Information

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent work experience

• Graduate degree would be an asset.

• Working knowledge of trade data process flows and technology platforms a plus.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if you’d like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.

Job Description:

Primary job responsibilities include:

• Requirement Gathering:

  • Conduct workshops with stakeholders to understand business needs, gather requirements, and help translate them into user stories for development.

  • Work with the stakeholders to get an understanding of the business/operations.

• Product Backlog Management:

  • Work closely with Product Manager/ Business Partners on prioritizing and maintain the product backlog, ensuring a clear roadmap for development based on business value and user priorities.

  • Determine project goals. Create timelines, determine costs and resources required.

  • Generate a detailed project plan with schedule mapping and tracking.

  • Provide direction and coaching on project specific tasks.

• Collaboration with Development Team:

  • Work closely with Technology/ Development/Vendor Product team/s to communicate requirements, clarify ambiguities, and ensure successful project execution.

  • Work with our internal teams to identify & validate opportunities and develop a roadmap

  • Develop & implement processes for project teams to complete activities to current policies and practices; keep documentation organized; identify process improvements Manage team to create and execute project plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.

  • Ensure that each stage is progressing on time, on budget and to the processes and quality standards of the company.

  • Manage risks and manage to avoid delays.

• Stakeholder Management:

  • Communicate effectively with key stakeholders, including senior management, Internal users, project stakeholders and technical/ product teams to manage expectations and address concerns.

  • Support leadership communications

  • Work with stakeholders to develop the business case.

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate Degree in related field

• Strong computer skills MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook), and Windows

• Good project planning, organizing, communication, team motivation and delegation skills

• Ability to apply technical, business, and PM skills to manage complex, strategic projects.

• Proven track record of the successful management of complex, multifunctional projects/programs.

• Experience in project management in one or more domain of Payment System which would include but not limited to Payment Authorization, Compliance Reporting, Risk Management in Payments, Integration and Payment Tracking.

• Valuable skills to have:

  • Payment Regulations: Up-to-date on current payment regulations and compliance requirements.

  • Payment Technologies: Understanding different payment technologies and their applications.

  • Market Trends: Keeping abreast of emerging payment trends and technologies.

• PMP or similar project management certifications are desired.

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

• Develop new solutions as required for engineering programs and projects within assigned area
• Develop new features and perform unit / component test for new application development initiatives aligned to business needs and in accordance with technology architecture standards
• Support business enquiries and business 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
• Work with other stakeholders, internal technology partners to ensure engineering solutions meet technical direction, requirements, performance, time-to-market and innovation goals
• 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, in particular 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 and participate in reviewing peer coding
• 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

• 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

• 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)
• 5+ years of experience in Python and Python libraries
• 5+ years of experience in Machine learning
• 2+ years of experience in GenAI models – Azure open AI experience is a plus
• Strong knowledge of React, Java, and data structures
• Prompt Engineering experience on tools such as Azure AI Studio would be ideal
• Experience fine-tuning LLMs with latest techniques
• Experience with multiple models including open-source models deployment (LLaMa, Mistral et al)
• Experience with multiple Vector Databases
• Experience in finance industry is a plus

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.