KDB Developer

Work Location :
London, United Kingdom

Hours:
35

Line of Business:
Technology Solutions

Pay Details:

We're committed to providing fair and equitable compensation to all our colleagues. As a candidate, we encourage you to have an open dialogue with a member of our HR Team and ask compensation related questions, including pay details for this role.

Job Description:

TD Securities (TDS) is a top-two dealer in Canada with a growing US business and global execution capabilities, offering a full suite of capital markets and corporate and investment banking products.

The successful candidate will be working in a backend engineering role. Helping to build out core functionality and services in our data platform. Working with various programming languages (Java, Python, KDB) to meet the needs of the low latency trading business.

Position Overview

This role is focussed on data technology within the FICC Low Latency Trading technology team.

The FICC (Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities) Low Latency Electronic Trading Team is part of the TD Securities Technology Solutions group, covering all latency sensitive products of the FX, Fixed Income and Commodities businesses.

The team is responsible for the development and support of the strategic low latency e-trading set of applications for TD Securities, covering:

• Pricing
• Dealer-to-Dealer order execution
• Dealer-to-Client quoting solutions
• Automated/algo execution capabilities
• Risk management
• Data pipelines, storage and analytics

Our applications utilize the latest low latency technology and Dev Ops approaches to deliver highly scalable technology solutions.

These applications are used globally by Front Office quants and traders and enterprise risk systems and are critical to TD's client pricing and trading activities.

This is a global team with engineers in Toronto, London, Dublin and New York.

Key Qualifications / Skills / Experience

• Minimum 5 years' experience working in a relevant engineering, statistical or financial role
• Significant experience working with Kdb/q:
  • Detailed knowledge of Kdb architecture
  • Experience writing analytics in Kdb
  • Experience working with market data
• Knowledge of capital markets, preferably in e Trading else similar financial, operational or regulatory data lifecycles and system workflows
• Experience in framework, library and API design
• Experience working with quant and front office teams
• Understanding of test-driven development, tools, and practices
• Experience in requirements analysis and design patterns and soft engineering best practices
• Practitioner of agile methodologies, continuous integration and delivery tools and practices
• Passion for engineering and intuitive design

Behavioural

• Able to work effectively and drive delivery as part of a cross-functional team and partner with multiple stakeholders
• Strong sense of ownership, attention to detail and focus on the client experience
• Proactive, organised, self-starter
• Ability to think critically and pragmatically
• Excellent verbal and written communication; able to effectively convey complex and technical material to senior management and non-technical audiences
• Team-player, comfortable working individually and as part of a globally distributed group
• Great interpersonal skills, sense of fun and community

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Programming experience in either Java or Python
• Linux and shell-scripting experience
• Dev Op tools and techniques
• Appreciation of Dev Ops and SRE practices
• Familiar with messaging protocols i.e. GRPC
• Experience working with containers, orchestration tools (docker, podman, Kubernetes)

Other

The objectives of the role will include:

• Build common agnostic libraries and solutions across markets. This is a cross-asset role covering Global Foreign Exchange, Fixed Income Markets as well as Commodities.
• Own, support and contribute to the planning, communication, design, and implementation of core platform solutions.
• Manage, support, and improve the core data platform directly supporting the business.
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders and business partners.
• Collaborate across business lines, functional partners (IT, Risk, Operations), external vendors as well as the business SME.
• Demonstrate and promote best practices; seek to continually evolve and improve our workflows, tooling, and development practices and environment.
• Contribute to the skills and capabilities of the overall team via mentoring, reviews, and knowledge-sharing.
• Simplify and streamline existing workflows and processes through innovation, tooling, and automation.

Projects

• Greenfield build out of a KDB FICC platform
• Data pipeline and analytics integration with core python data services
• Data entitlement and permissions framework
• Streaming realtime analytics and reporting framework
• Own and iteratively develop our core data platform, services, and libraries.

Who We Are

TD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Every day, we deliver legendary customer experiences to over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world. More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to the Bank, those we serve, and the economies we support. We are guided by our vision to Be the Better Bank and our purpose to enrich the lives of our customers, communities and colleagues.

TD is deeply committed to being a leader in customer experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are customer facing. As we build our business and deliver on our strategy, we are innovating to enhance the customer experience and build capabilities to shape the future of banking. Whether you've got years of banking experience or are just starting your career in financial services, we can help you realize your potential. Through regular leadership and development conversations to mentorship and training programs, we're here to support you towards your goals. As an organization, we keep growing - and so will you.

Our Total Rewards Package
Our Total Rewards package reflects the investment we make in our colleagues to help them, and their families achieve their well-being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, including medical coverage, paid time off, career development, and reward and recognition programs.

Additional Information:
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.

Colleague Development
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.

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

Interview Process
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.

Accommodation

If you require an accommodation for the recruitment / interview process (including alternate formats of materials, or accessible meeting rooms or other accommodation), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Job ID R_1359166