Front Office Data Analyst Engineer

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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:

The mission of the Data Engineering, Analytics and Innovation team is to own, build and develop the tools, best practices, and datasets needed to drive data-driven insights and efficiencies across the business.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to learn on the job, be adaptable in a dynamic work environment, and manage and communicate priorities effectively. This is a truly varied, hands-on role requiring the successful candidate to be comfortable switching from individual project work, to driving discussions and communication with key stakeholders to supporting the immediate and wider team as necessary.

The objectives of the role include:

• Establishing a strong in-person working relationships and presence with key internal and external stakeholders and business partners.
• Hands-on Data Product Ownership: you will be responsible in helping us define, design, drive and implement solutions for the business.
• Build common agnostic libraries and data patterns 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 key business deliverables.
• Conduct critical analysis of current system and workflows using the results to draw conclusions and make recommendations.
• Manage, support, and improve critical data pipelines and reporting solutions directly supporting the business lines.
• Contribute and expand our data and quant framework; including developing tools to load, process, clean, query, analyse and visualise data.
• Evolve our reporting and forecasting tools and dashboards as required by the business and management.
• Work closely with and interact with the front office sales and trading desks, to understand business requirements.
• Perform data profiling using TD tooling and ad-hoc system query languages to validate data analysis.
• Collaborate across business lines, functional partners (IT, Risk, Operations), external vendors as well as the business SME.
• Ensure data governance and security guidelines are adhered to.
• Demonstrate and promote best practices; seek to continually evolve and improve our workflows, tooling, and development practices and environment.
• Simplify and streamline existing workflows and processes through tooling, automation and optimization.

Projects

• Own and iteratively develop our critical business data pipelines and infrastructure.
• Evolve and improve our reporting, dashboarding and analytics tool suite.
• Develop and support our strategic internal market data and analytics Python libraries and APIs.
• Build out our client value framework.
• Implement new targeted dashboards to drive business insights and decision making.

Role Requirements

Key Qualifications / Skills / Experience

• Minimum 3 years' experience working in a relevant engineering, statistical or financial role
• Strong Python, modern programming language experience
• Working knowledge of Pandas and Numpy
• Effective SQL and RDBMS knowledge
• Proficiency working with and cleaning data, including data-scraping, and dealing with streaming and time series data sets.
• Visualisation libraries (plotly, seaborn, matplotlib), dashboarding using Plotly Dash or Shiny
• Understanding of test-driven development, tools, and practices
• Experience with data modelling, schema design and evolution
• Experience coding ETL pipelines and orchestration workflows
• Experience in analysis and design patterns and soft engineering best practices
• Practitioner of agile methodologies, continuous integration and delivery tools and practices
• Understanding of Big Data principles, design, and techniques
• Linux and shell-scripting experience
• Passion for engineering, intuitive, visual design and building great user experiences

Behavioral

• Proactive, organised, self-starter
• 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
• 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

• Prior project experience in Client Analysis, Transaction Cost Analysis, Market Data Analysis, PnL reporting or Marketing Analysis a plus
• Knowledge of capital markets, preferably in eTrading else similar financial, operational, or regulatory data lifecycles and system workflows
• Experience in framework, library and API design
• Understanding of current and emerging technology and trends in the data and analytics space
• DevOp tools and techniques
• Business Intelligence tools
• Tick database knowledge KDB, OneTick
• Knowledge of eTrading, books of record vendor system object model i.e. ION, Murex, Broadway
• NoSQL, OLAP, OLTP database
• JavaScript, web development
• Cloud experience

Shared Commitments

Executives promote adherence to TDBG’s vision and purpose to be the better bank, and enrich the lives of customers, communities and colleagues.  As part of the general management of their function, Executives are accountable to deliver against TD's five shared commitments:

• Think like a customer; provide legendary experiences and trusted advice
• Act like an owner; lead with integrity to drive business results and contribute to communities
• Execute with speed and impact; only take risks we can understand and manage
• Innovate with purpose; simplify the way we work
• Develop our colleagues; embrace diversity and respect one another

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.