IT Build Analyst II (System Support)

Work Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Hours: 37.5 Line of Business: Technology Solutions Pay Details: $69,700 - $98,400 CAD TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs. As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role. Job Description: The IT Build Analyst II (System Support) provides a broad range of technology build support, including research, installation, maintenance, configuration, administration and/or provisioning of systems and applications. The role may also be involved in deployment and release management activities. The role works closely with key stakeholders to support reliable technology solutions, address system and application issues, implement changes, and contribute to the ongoing improvement of the technology environment. Key Accountabilities Technology Build & System Support • Provide specialized technology-related build support, including research, installation, configuration, provisioning, and administration of systems and applications, ensuring established standards and service levels are met or exceeded while minimizing operational risk. • Partner with key stakeholders to schedule, package, and release new applications in a timely manner and reduce change execution times by planning implementations with parallel work streams. • Continuously strive to improve the stability of the production environment by partnering closely with key stakeholders to set up, maintain, and monitor applications and systems, ensuring availability targets are met. • Ensure timely notification and escalation of possible issues and problems and provide options and recommendations for prompt resolution. • Communicate project status and escalate issues in a timely manner to support achievement of project objectives. • Deliver effective and defect-free application, hardware, software and/or operations support by researching system issues and opportunities, overseeing the execution of recommendations, and maintaining accurate documentation. • Interact with clients to provide quality services and solutions consistent with objectives and client requirements. • Design, review, and integrate application requirements, including functional, security, integration, performance, quality, and operational requirements. • Identify and address application and data issues, including cross-capability and cross-release issues that affect application integrity. • Consult with other functional areas and provide technical expertise within the area of specialization, acting as a reference on relevant technologies, trends, and processes. • Participate in projects aimed at evolving the base infrastructure, deploying new technologies, or optimizing the operational environment. • May build and deploy base infrastructure components such as servers, operating systems, and middleware for all environments. • May be involved in deploying off-the-shelf or internally developed applications and procuring supported assets. • May maintain base infrastructure components to ensure they remain current and defect-free and liaise with third-party vendors to report problems and receive fixes. • Schedule changes to supported components in accordance with approved change management procedures. Implement changes with appropriate testing, stakeholder sign-off, and monitoring, while minimizing business impact. • Respond to requests for information and assist project teams in evaluating alternative approaches. • May develop working relationships with third-party vendors as required to fulfill support requirements. Technology Standards, Risk & Continuous Improvement • Monitor system lifecycles to ensure specifications and functionality support business objectives and architecture decisions, undertaking redevelopment as required. • May monitor the performance of the environment using meaningful metrics. • Assess and analyze opportunities to optimize the operational environment to improve performance and/or resource utilization. • Ensure effective change management discipline is followed. • Assist in maintaining secure computing facilities and technical infrastructure/architecture to support clients and applications, as appropriate. • Adhere to existing processes and standards, business technology architecture, risk, and production capacity guidelines; plan, monitor, and escalate issues as required. • Follow standards, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with the Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) and applicable Business Recovery Plans (BRP). • Identify and implement process improvements to enhance revenue, improve the customer experience, and/or reduce costs. • Comply with established enterprise technology delivery practices, standards, and project management disciplines. • Make effective use of cost-management processes within the unit. • Continuously enhance knowledge and expertise in TD services, applications, infrastructure, analytical tools, and techniques that can contribute to effective solution development and delivery. • Keep current with industry and business trends. • May perform testing according to test plans, monitor and report results, and work with others on problem resolution. • As required, support the development of business cases, RFIs/RFPs, and service-level agreements with vendors and suppliers, consistent with IT requirements and guidelines. Team & Collaboration • Work effectively as