Software Java Engineer

Description

The company's Compliance & Supervision Technology team in TD Securities is hiring a Senior Java Engineer to build technology that meets regulatory obligations, strengthens supervisory controls, and manages conduct and trade-related risk.

The role covers Compliance & Supervision for Global Markets. You will lead design, development, delivery, and operational support of solutions for regulatory compliance, surveillance, supervision, and control oversight, combining technical leadership with delivery accountability across regulatory and business initiatives.

You will work closely with Compliance, Risk, Data, and Business stakeholders to deliver solutions that are scalable, secure, resilient, and ready for regulator review.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a strong engineering team across several delivery streams.
• Set engineering standards, development practices, and quality controls.
• Own solution design, code quality, testing, deployment, and operational stability.
• Coach, mentor, and support the career growth of junior developers.
• Encourage continuous improvement, new ideas, and high technical standards.
• Take end-to-end ownership of strategic Compliance and Supervision technology initiatives.
• Coordinate work across product, architecture, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams.
• Make sure solutions meet business goals and follow enterprise architecture and security standards.
• Apply Agile and continuous delivery practices.
• Provide technical oversight for large, distributed enterprise systems.
• Build and support API-first, event-driven, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
• Integrate vendor platforms, in-house systems, and enterprise data services.
• Review and approve designs for scalability, resiliency, maintainability, and security.
• Encourage reuse of common platform capabilities across workstreams.
• Make sure technology supports regulatory obligations, supervisory requirements, and compliance controls.
• Build auditability, traceability, entitlement controls, evidence capture, and monitoring into system designs.
• Support internal audits, regulatory reviews, remediation programs, and control assessments.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on Java development experience, with JDK 17+ preferred.
• Experience building REST or GraphQL APIs with Spring Boot or a similar framework.
• Strong SQL skills with any relational database.
• Working experience with messaging systems such as Kafka or similar.
• You must have experience deploying with Docker and Kubernetes.
• You must have experience with workflow engines such as Camunda, Activiti, JBPM, or similar.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with close attention to detail.
• Proven experience leading Agile delivery at scale, managing backlogs, dependencies, continuous improvement, and outcomes.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work well with varied stakeholders.
• Ability to lead, motivate, and inspire teams.
• Ability to juggle multiple priorities in a fast-moving, changing environment.
• 8+ years of technology delivery and software engineering experience.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams in large enterprise environments.
• Minimum bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.
• Nice to have: experience with search engines such as Apache Solr, OpenSearch, or ElasticSearch.
• Nice to have: experience with CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Terraform, or similar.
• Nice to have: experience with tools such as SonarQube, Veracode, or similar.
• Nice to have: experience with big data, data analytics, and AI.
• Nice to have: ability to work across geographically distributed teams.
• Nice to have: experience in highly regulated financial services.
• Nice to have: knowledge of financial trade surveillance, market abuse monitoring, or global markets, including trading lifecycles.

Conditions

Location: Belfast, United Kingdom.

Hours: 35 per week.

Line of Business: Technology Solutions.

Pay details are available by asking HR during an open conversation about compensation.

The company is committed to fair and equitable pay for all colleagues.

Benefits

• Total rewards include base salary, health and well-being benefits with medical coverage, paid time off, career development, and reward and recognition programs.
• Regular career and performance conversations with your manager.
• Access to an online learning platform and a range of mentoring programs.
• Training and onboarding sessions to help you settle into the role.