Principal Platform Engineer

Work Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours: 37.5

Line of Business: Technology Solutions

Pay Details: $165,000 - $200,000 CAD

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

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Job Description:

Global Transaction Banking (GTB) is a key growth business within TDS that provides the opportunity to make an impact with top-tier organizations. We offer innovative solutions and treasury advisory services on large and complex liquidity, payments, and trade finance needs. Business constantly changes with macroeconomic conditions, unprecedented levels of innovation, interest rate environments, and foreign exchange movements. As a result, all GTB business lines continue to evolve to provide optimum trade finance, liquidity, and payment solutions to clients.

Global Transaction Banking technology team focuses on delivering top-tier technology solutions to enable and grow the global GTB business.

Role Overview

As a Principal Engineer within the Global Transaction Banking (GTB) program, you will bring together enterprise-scale technical leadership and hands-on engineering to build the next-generation GTB Platform. This is not a strategy-only role — you will be actively in the code: designing, prototyping, and validating core platform capabilities. You will leverage modern AI-assisted development tools as a core part of your engineering workflow, owning the platform's foundation, velocity, scalability, and resiliency — while driving higher quality and broader adoption of engineering best practices across teams.

Your focus will extend to applying disruptive technologies — particularly real-time AI inferencing and decisioning in Platforms such as Azure/Kubernetes — to elevate platform readiness, accelerate business delivery, strengthen technical resilience, and reduce cost of ownership. Working in close partnership with technology executives, senior leaders, and engineers, you will play a central role in shaping the overall Platform Engineering and GTB technology strategy.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and optimize Kubernetes-based platforms across cloud environments

• Build, harden, and prototype containerized application solutions

• Leveraging cutting edge technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, Gitlab, Prometheus, etc. to design and build new infrastructure features

• Document end-to-end SDLC processes, deployment workflows, and platform standards

• Conduct technical assessments, architecture reviews, and proof-of-concept initiatives

• Develop architecture diagrams, runbooks, implementation guides, and technical standards

• Collaborate with engineering, security, compliance, and operations teams

• Present technical findings and recommendations to both technical and executive audiences

• Improve CI/CD pipelines with a focus on reliability, security, and compliance

• Support monitoring, observability, and signal management initiatives

• Establish the best platform practices across cloud-native environments

• Role requires 50% hands on Platform development, 30% Architecture and 20% Product/Executive presentations to showcase the problems/work

Required Skills

• 10 years + of relevant platform, cloud, or infrastructure experience

• Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience in production environments

• Containerization expertise using Docker and related technologies

• Proven expertise in designing and delivering cloud solutions across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.

• Proven expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with hands-on experience using Terraform, Helm, and/or Ansible.

• Service mesh, secrets management, or cloud-native platform experience

• Experience mentoring a team of engineers and influence product and business stakeholders

• Deep understanding of the full SDLC, including CI/CD, testing, version control, and release management

• Experience creating architecture documentation, diagrams, runbooks, and standards

• Strong understanding of cloud networking, IAM, security, storage, and compute services

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience

• Master's degree preferred

• Fluency in at least one programming language such as Java or Python

• 10+ years of relevant experience

• Hands-on experience required for this role

Nice to have

• Cash Management/Transaction Banking experience

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Who We Are: TD Securities offers a wide range of capital markets products and services to corporate, government, and institutional clients who choose us for our innovation, execution, and experience. With more than 6,500 professionals operating out of 40 cities across the globe, we strive to make every interaction, product and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple. Our services include underwriting and distributing new issues, providing trusted advice and industry-leading insight, extending access to global markets, and delivering integrated transaction banking solutions. In 2023, we acquired Cowen Inc., offering our clients access to a premier U.S. equities business and highly-diverse equity research franchise, while growing our strong, diversified investment bank.

Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.

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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.

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Language Requirement (Quebec only): Sans Objet