Sr. IT Application DBA

Job title: Sr. IT Application DBA

Job description: Company Overview

Our Values

At TD we’re guided by our purpose is to enrich the lives of our customers, communities and colleagues, and share a set of values that shape our culture and guide our behavior. In exchange for how our colleagues show up to help TD succeed, we are committed to delivering a colleague experience grounded in Impact, Growth and a Culture of Care. No matter where you work across TD, we empower you to make an impact at work and in your community, explore and grow your career and be part of our caring and inclusive culture.

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A caring and supportive culture that promotes colleague well-being is core to who we are. At TD, we focus on total well-being with extensive programs to help colleagues assess, manage, and improve their well-being across four core pillars – physical, financial, social and mental/emotional. In addition, we champion a safe, inclusive and supportive work environment to help colleagues feel a sense of belonging, and supported in their personal and professional growth. Through our focus on total well-being, we know that we can help our colleagues thrive, contribute to our culture of care, and support better business outcomes … because when colleagues feel their best, they’re more likely to do their best.

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, variable compensation, and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits including medical, dental, vision & mental health coverage, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs.

How We Work

At TD, we believe in-person connections fuel collaboration and collective creativity. Our workplace experience empowers colleagues to do great work side-by-side at TD locations, while offering flexibility to work remotely where it makes sense for the work and team. Our teams work in one of three workplace models: hybrid, onsite and primarily remote. Wherever our colleagues are working, they’ll always have access to the TD community and experience our culture of care.

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. 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 a customer obsessed organization, and we are 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.

Department Overview

Building a World-Class, Diverse and Inclusive Technology Team at TD

We can’t afford to be boring. Neither can you. The scale and scope of what TD does may surprise you. The rapid pace of change makes it a business imperative for us to be smart and open-minded in the way we think about technology. TD’s technology and business teams become more intertwined as new opportunities present themselves. This new era in banking does not equal boring. Not at TD, anyway.

TD IT Application Support covers business segment CIO technology areas or shared services technology functions. These experts interact closely with those within the Infrastructure Technology Solutions space. With a heightened focus on developing, implementing standard support models and processes using industry best practices, this role is responsible for production support, troubleshooting incident and problem management, service transition, IT change management and deployment and release management.

There’s room to grow in all of it.

Job Requirements

What can you bring to TD? Share your credentials, but your relevant experience and knowledge can be just as likely to get our attention. It helps if you have:

• Undergraduate Degree or Technical Certificate.
• 5-7 years Database Administration experience
• MS SQL certification preferred
• Microsoft SQL server experience and skills with T-SQL and SQL scripting.
• Understanding of relational database design concepts and best practices
• Scripting and automation experience with PowerShell, Python, JavaScript or other scripting languages.
• Experience with Windows Server and Windows Clustering
• Solid understanding of database backup and recovery
• Solid understanding of SQL tuning
• Experience installing, configuring, supporting or managing database infrastructure.
• Ability to work independently in a senior/lead role on a diverse range of tasks and may be relied upon to coach/ educate others.
• Strong subject matter expertise, as you prepare to provide clients, team, and/or project team with technical guidance and assist with highly complex troubleshooting/problem resolution.
• Strength in identifying root causes and implementing targeted and controlled remediation plans.
• Readiness to review, participate in and implement procedures.
• Strength in consulting with other functional areas to provide technical expertise on area of specialization by acting as a reference on technology, trends and processes related to your own area.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills and can work effectively with vendors to fulfill support requirements.
• Possession of effective change management discipline.
• Willingness to work effectively as a team, helping others to resolve critical service issues.
• Interest and drive to enhance knowledge/expertise by staying abreast of industry and business trends, research industry standards, best practices and new innovations, make recommendations.

Hours

37.5

Job Details

About This Role

We are looking for someone with diverse skills and background with Microsoft SQL database administration to carry out broad range of operational database activities ranging from database administration, performance tuning, high availability, monitoring and capacity management.

Meaningful work is fueled by meaningful performance and career development conversations with your manager. Here’s some of what you may be asked to perform:

• Support applications and database infrastructure by meeting or exceeding standards and service levels while minimizing operational risk.
• Partner closely with stakeholders to improve production environment stability.
• Actively involved on all aspects of database support and application issue resolution: identify, assess, recommend, escalate, resolve, report, document and communicate.
• Strong focus on problem determination including data gathering and analysis.
• May develop scripts using appropriate tools to automate, address gaps, simplify or enhance the application/system or environment.
• Provide quality service and solutions consistent with objectives and client requirements.
• Dive into design, review, and integration of all database requirements like functional, security, integration, performance, quality and operations.
• Identify, address application/ data issues, cross-capability and cross-release issues that affect application and database integrity.
• Provide expertise to other functional areas (technology, trends and processes).
• Follow change management procedures. ensure proper testing, sign-off, monitoring.
• Participate in disaster recovery planning (Define, Review, Test).
• Strive to improve production environment stability by working with others to set up, maintain and monitor databases, while meeting availability targets.
• Follow established processes/standards, business technology architecture, risk and production capacity guidelines; plan, monitor and escalate issues as required.
• Actively work with business users to provide guidance on best practices for writing SQL queries
• Review database reports and provide solutions to improve database performance.

Workplace Model

Hybrid

Inclusiveness

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At TD, we’re committed to fostering an environment where all colleagues are encouraged to bring their authentic selves to work, experience equitable opportunities, and feel respected and supported. We’re dedicated to building an inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity of the customers and the communities in which we live and serve.

How We’re Helping Make an Impact in Communities

TD has a long-standing commitment to help drive progress towards a more inclusive and sustainable future. That’s why we launched the TD Ready Commitment in 2018, now a multi-year North American initiative. Under the TD Ready Commitment, we are targeting a total of $1 billion by 2030 in community giving four key, interconnected drivers of change: Financial Security, Vibrant Planet, Connected Communities, and Better Health. It’s our goal to help support change, nurture progress, and contribute to making the world a better, more inclusive place for our customers, colleagues, and communities.

Accommodation

Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if you’d like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Additional Information

Join in on what others in TD Technology Solutions are doing:

• Inspire a positive work environment and help champion quality, innovation, teamwork and service to the business.
• Learn voraciously, stretch your thinking,

Business Line

Corporate

Job Category – Primary

Technology Solutions

Job Category(s)

Technology Solutions

Job Family

IT Application Support

Time Type

Full Time

Employment Type

Regular

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 your recruiter and ask compensation related questions, including pay details for this role.

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