VP, Platform/Dev Ops Engineer - Automated Trading, TD Securities

Work Location:

Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Hours:

40

Line of Business:

TD Securities

Pay Detail:

$225,000 - $225,000 USD

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Job Description:

The VP Sales and Trading TDS develops an institutional investor base in the U.S. to fund the Bank and to place U.S. and Canadian money market positions. The position liaises closely with the Bank's other operations in Canada, Europe, and the U.S. to assist in meeting the Bank's objectives.

Core Responsibilities:

• Architect and deploy self-service development workflows and operations to internal development teams.

• Automate all kinds of operational tasks, monitoring, alerting, fetching data (e.g. SFTP, REST, S3), resource management, regulatory, reporting, audit, etc.

• Own and maintain C++ CI/CD pipeline and dependency management.

• Collaborate with Development team to design and build a next-generation operational system for task scheduling, data pipelining, and service orchestration.

• Collaborate with Infrastructure team to administer Linux/Windows hosts and for capacity planning, scaling, and tuning of physical/virtual resources.

Depth & Scope:

• Position liaises closely with the Banks other operations in Canada, Europe and the U.S. to assist in meeting the Banks objectives

• Develops an institutional investor base in the U.S. to fund the Bank and to place U.S. and Canadian money market positions

• Strict adherence personally and at a desk level to the firm's procedures

• Understands and complies with TD Policies, regulatory and compliance requirements

• Ensures that transactions are fully documented and processed accurately and in a timely manner

• Communicates bank policy information and strategy between the product head and relevant trading personnel

• Fully informed on market data, economic information and key industry developments as well as regulatory standards at all times to assist in maximizing profitability through sound trading decisions

• Develops and maintains contacts

• Responsible for executing the ongoing trading exception report reviews for Money Markets Sales NY

• Understands the approved Business Strategies (Strategic Business Reviews SBRs), applicable to the business, and ensures that all of your business dealings are in alignment with these strategies

• Follows Credit Risk Policies and procedures, as they apply to the business and is responsible for being aware of and understanding such policies and procedures and ensuring that applicable sales and trading activity is in line with those policies

• Demonstrates governance, control and risk management behaviors in alignment with TD policies and practices

Education & Experience:

• Undergraduate degree in Business (Accounting or Finance) or Mathematics/Economics.

• Series 7 and 63

• 5-7 Years of related experience

• Must be detail oriented and possess problem-solving skills

• Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision and establish priorities

• Proficient in interpersonal communication (both oral and written), and have the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of staff and management

Preferred Qualifications:

• Mastery of Linux command-line (& Bash scripting)

• Python programming, Python environment and package administration

• Containerization (bonus: rootless Podman)

• Container orchestration (Kubernetes via EKS/GKE/GKEE or OpenShift, etc.)

• Linux (RHEL) administration (systemd, Satellite)

• Public cloud infrastructure (one of: GCP preferred, AWS, Azure)

• Developer tools, CI/CD (Git, Bazel, Github Actions, Atlassian suite)

• Monitoring and metrics (PagerDuty, Beats, ELK, Prometheus, AlertManager, Grafana, Da