Solutions Design IT Java Specialist

Work Location

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

37.5

Technology Solutions

$125,000 - $156,000 CAD

This role is eligible for a discretionary variable compensation award that considers business and individual performance.

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  compensation policies and practices are designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they advance 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.

We are seeking a Senior Java Developer / Architect to design, build, and operate scalable, event‑driven, cloud‑native applications using Apache Kafka, Spring Boot, and Microsoft Azure. The ideal candidate combines strong hands‑on engineering with architectural ownership of distributed systems, messaging patterns, and data‑intensive services.

• Design event‑driven architectures using Kafka with ownership of event contracts, versioning, and schema evolution
• Define service interaction patterns (REST vs Kafka, sync vs async)
• Lead architecture and design reviews focused on scalability, resiliency, and security
• Own non‑functional requirements including latency, throughput, scalability, and capacity planning

• Design topic, partition, replication, retention, and consumer group strategies
• Implement producers and consumers with correct delivery semantics
• Apply retries, dead‑letter queues, replay, idempotency, and error‑handling strategies
• Manage schema compatibility using Avro/Protobuf/JSON and enforce backward/forward compatibility

• Develop Spring Boot microservices using Java 11/17+
• Build REST APIs and asynchronous workflows
• Implement resilience patterns such as retries, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation
• Ensure safe evolution using API versioning and zero‑downtime deployment

• Design and optimize Microsoft SQL Server persistence
• Write and tune complex SQL queries

• Deploy and operate services on Microsoft Azure (App Service/AKS)
• Use Azure Key Vault, monitoring, and logging tools
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub Actions or Azure Dev Ops
• Support infrastructure as code using Terraform

• Establish unit, integration, and contract testing for distributed systems
• Participate in on‑call support and root‑cause analysis

• 8+ years backend or distributed systems experience
• 5+ years Java and Spring Boot
• Strong Kafka production experience
• Strong SQL Server experience
• Working Python proficiency

• Confluent Certified Developer/Administrator for Apache Kafka
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure Developer Associate
• Oracle Java OCP 11/17 or Spring Professional

Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical, and mental well‑being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary, variable compensation, and several other key plans such as health and well‑being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs.

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