Data Integration Specialist

Co-operators • Montreal, QC

9d • CA$69,660 - CA$116,100 • Hybrid

About The Position

We are a leading Canadian financial services co-operative committed to being a catalyst for a sustainable and resilient society and our team is essential to deliver on this strategy. That’s why we prioritize our people, to ensure we provide a strong culture and development opportunities which enables our team to thrive and to live our purpose. The best part is that you will work with people that care passionately about you, our clients, and our communities. Our Business Intelligence team empowers decision making using leading edge science and analytics. We strive to deliver a single version of truth, by providing our business partners with access to comprehensive data and valuable insights to help our organization achieve operational excellence. As a Data Integration Specialist, you will autonomously contribute to various initiatives by engineering data solutions for analytics purposes. You will be responsible for providing business value through the creation, maintenance, implementation of back-end data solutions (ie. Source System Data Store & Business Data Store) through the full software development lifecycle.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in Data Engineering/Integration or other relevant field.
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or other relevant field.
• Experience solving standard problems by analyzing possible solutions by using our experience, judgment and precedent & challenging status quo.
• Good knowledge and understanding of data analysis, programing, modeling techniques, data warehouse and data management, research, architecture and design.
• Experience with following technologies is required: SQL and Relational databases (Azure Synapse / SQL Server), Git (Azure DevOps and GitHub), Microsoft Office (Word, Excel).
• Proficiency in both English and French is essential to the main duties in this role, including servicing and communicating primarily with majority anglophone and francophone clients, groups, and teams. The essential non-French duties are not assignable to adjacent or other team members.

Nice To Haves

• French is an asset.
• Experience with following technologies is an asset: Databricks, Python, ADLS, Power BI, Feature Store, R (Shiny app).

Responsibilities

• Autonomously execute the appropriate data extraction, cleaning, reconciliation, and preparation processes required for the development of analytics solutions & understand the data requirements of a solution and complete simple analysis to assess data characteristics.
• Work with data engineering tools: general purpose languages used in data engineering or generally in BI and related framework or interfaces, data querying and data handling and DevOps platforms.
• Autonomously contribute to assessing data quality and building automated controls.
• Build data solutions (data models, data pipelines, APIs and more).
• Develop analytic solutions to solve business problems by understanding the role of data in reporting, metrics, predictive models, and other analytic solutions within the BI Environment.
• Autonomously deliver production ready code by assessing the data solution and follow best practices and standards (no technical debt, automation, scalable solution, incremental load, etc.) with the support of senior resources.
• Apply design principles based on the solution and best practice in terms of data handling (ex: security, governance), the SDLC (ex: unit testing), production code standards and meeting SLAs (ex: low latency responses).
• Understand the insurance domain (metrics, KPI, key insurance concept), business objectives and how your own tasks contribute to meeting the business objectives.

Benefits

• Training and development opportunities to grow your career.
• Flexible work options and paid time off to support your personal and family needs.
• A holistic approach to your well-being, with physical and mental health programs and a supportive workplace culture.
• Paid volunteer days to give back to your community.
• Competitive salary and incentive programs.
• Comprehensive total rewards package including group retirement savings plans, pension and benefits (e.g., health and wellness, dental, disability and life coverage), mental health support and an employee assistance program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level