Software Engineer – Compliance Technology

TD Bank•New York, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a Software Engineer to provide hands-on analysis and development within Compliance Technology. The role shapes technology solutions that meet regulatory obligations, strengthen supervisory controls, and manage conduct and trade-related risks. Working across Compliance, Supervision, Global Markets, Product, Architecture, Engineering, Data, Quality Assurance, Operations, and Risk, the software engineer will be responsible for leading the design, development, delivery, and operational support of technology solutions that enable regulatory compliance, surveillance, supervision, and control oversight functions. This role combines technology innovation and delivery accountability across strategic regulatory and business initiatives. This engineer will develop solutions within a modern cloud-native architecture, big data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and automation capabilities to improve operational efficiency and regulatory outcomes. The role partners closely with Compliance, Risk, Data, and Business stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, resilient, and regulator-ready solutions.

Requirements

Strong hands-on experience in back-end development technologies and frameworks, including: Java
RESTful services
SQL and NoSQL databases
Message queue technologies, including Kafka
Event-based architecture
Experience with big data technologies, data analytics, and AI.
Hands-on experience with integration projects involving multiple systems and platforms.
Knowledge of data strategy, governance, and integration.
Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities, with keen attention to detail.
Experience in driving technology strategies and roadmaps aligned with business objectives.
Knowledge of emerging technologies and trends in the industry.
Experience in Agile delivery with a focus on backlog execution, dependencies, continuous improvement, and outcomes.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders.
Ability to manage multiple priorities and work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
3 to 5 years of technology delivery and software engineering experience.
Experience delivering regulatory, risk, compliance, surveillance, or supervisory technology solutions.
Minimum bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
College degree, or specialized training / equivalent work experience
3-5 Years of related experience

Nice To Haves

Experience operating within highly regulated financial services environments preferred.
Knowledge of financial industry trade surveillance, market abuse monitoring and/or global markets domain experience, including trading lifecycles.
Experience with big data and cloud technologies and architecture.
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically and strategically.
Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

Work within a team on end-to-end delivery of strategic Compliance technology initiatives.
Manage delivery roadmaps, capacity planning, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder communications.
Coordinate across product, architecture, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams.
Ensure solutions meet business objectives while adhering to enterprise architecture standards.
Drive Agile delivery practices and continuous delivery methodologies.
Provide technical oversight for enterprise-scale distributed systems.
Support API-driven, event-driven, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
Ensure integration between vendor platforms, proprietary systems, and enterprise data services.
Participate in the development of solution designs for scalability, resiliency, maintainability, and security.
Promote framework reuse and common platform capabilities across workstreams.
Ensure technology solutions support regulatory obligations, supervisory requirements, and compliance controls.
Embed auditability, traceability, entitlement controls, evidencing capabilities, and monitoring into system designs.
Partner with Compliance and Risk teams to translate regulatory requirements into technology solutions.
Support internal audits, regulatory reviews, remediation programs, and control assessments.
Maintain awareness of evolving regulatory and industry expectations impacting compliance technology platforms.
Responsible for analyzing a broad range of business requirements, conducting program / system research and analysis to identify key components for solutions delivery and problem resolution.
Develops new applications and performs unit / component test for new application development initiatives aligned to business needs and in accordance with technology architecture standards.
Ensures effective communication of solutions development requirements for respective area and contributes to project plans, estimations, timelines and status updates to support management team / clients on prioritizing new and existing projects against IT requirements and business objectives.
Informs key stakeholders of any issues that may impact other areas of the project and resolves or escalates issues as required.
Supports business inquiries and business activities through execution of small enhancements and break / fix implementations (e.g. source code changes).
Works with Business Analysts / Systems Analysts, other technology Developers / Solution Designers to ensure the configuration and custom components meet application requirements and performance goals.
Creates and maintains quality code, ensures defect free programming consistent with standards; provides code maintenance and supports during testing cycles and post-production deployment and participate in reviewing peer coding.
Adheres to standard security coding practices to ensure application is free of most common coding vulnerabilities.
Participates in identifying and recommending development / testing solutions / tools in support of project / application objectives.
Completes unit and integration testing for conformance to standards and adherence to design specifications.
Complies with well-defined enterprise technology delivery practices and standards and project management disciplines by participating in scope assessment, risk and cost analysis.
Assists in the development / maintenance of comprehensive processes for prevention of issues and participate in problem determination and timely resolution of incidents applying appropriate quality measures.
Perform Systems Administration of applications / environments supported by the LOB, monitors application / service performance, and performs configuration, backup, authentication & tuning.
Ensure both state-of-health monitoring and monthly SLA targets are in place, and are being met.
Provides technical expertise during Incident management, analyzes incident reports and outages, performs impact assessment for incidents and facilitates internal and external communication throughout incident resolution.
Continuously enhances knowledge / expertise in area and keeps current with leading-edge technologies, emerging trends/developments and grows knowledge of the business, applications, infrastructure, analytical tools and techniques.
Prioritizes and manages own workload in order to deliver quality results and meet timelines as assigned.
Supports a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensures timely communication of issues/ points of interest.
Identifies and recommends opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency of the business unit and/or team.
Establishes effective relationships across multiple business and technology partners, program and project managers.
Participates in knowledge transfer within the team and business units.