Principal Engineer- Data Platform, Securities

Position Overview

Work Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:

37.5 per week
Line of Business:
Technology Solutions
Pay Details: $126,800 - $164,100 CAD
Variable compensation award is discretionary and considers business and individual performance.

• You enjoy high exposure programs that present difficult problems to solve.
• Experience in designing and operating a Data Platform from ingestion to consumption.
• Expert level in one or more programming languages (Java, Python, JavaScript, Scala).
• Exposure with AKS/Docker, Virtual Machines, streaming, API development and more.
• Design, research, and implement required process components to enable TD Azure functionalities (e.g., Unity Catalog, Azure Purview).
• Experience with 3rd‑party vendors is a plus (e.g., Dremio, Confluent Kafka).
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to coordinate and liaise with multiple parties to align to strategic data platform plans.
• Ability to create architectural diagrams with networking focus and system design.
• Experience in PaaS offerings from Azure, GCP, and Databricks.
• Must be able to lead complex projects and competing priorities with a high level of technical acumen and strong communication skills.
• Analyze all platform‑level changes, monitor application impact, and provide appropriate technical solutions to resolve issues quickly and efficiently.
• Actively manage and escalated risk and customer‑impacting issues within the day‑to‑day role to management.
• Achieve product commitments (and influence others) by using informal leadership, highly developed communication skills, and contributing to or leading technology communities.
• Use automation, system tools, open‑source solutions, observability, and ‘security first’ principles in daily work.
• Contribute to team agile ceremonies, lead demos and presentations, and help new engineers learn established norms.
• Initiate high‑level solution design approaches and guide the team to achieve desired key software delivery capabilities using automated, coded enterprise and observability tools.
• Participate in internal speaking and advocacy events.

• Undergraduate Degree in Engineering or a Technical Certificate.
• Expert knowledge in one or more of the following:
  Java, Python, JavaScript.
• Experience operating in a cloud environment.
• 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Willingness and strength in providing guidance and influencing multiple teams across a broad spectrum of initiatives and functional domains.

• Azure Cloud Knowledge (Azure Data Lake, Managed Identities, Service Principals).
• Experience with CI/CD or Dev Ops working with Azure.
• Databricks.
• Terraform.
• Kubernetes.

• Azure Databricks CLI.
• Azure Resource Management REST API experience.
• Past TD Experience + EDP (GT/XL).
• Git Hub Actions CI/CD.