Senior Data Engineer (Secret II Clearance)
About The Position
Our Quantexa Delivery team is all about contextualizing data. As a senior data engineer, you bring it all together. Working within a fast-paced team, you'll implement Quantexa’s innovative technology for an ever-expanding list of domains including banking, insurance, government, healthcare. From building an end-to-end data pipeline that uses our award-winning software, to configuring our decision-making platform to detect key insights, there’s always a new challenge around the corner. You’ll need to be a problem solver. The challenges we tackle are big, but they're also incredibly rewarding. Your contributions in managing, transforming, and cleansing high volume data help our clients solve business problems in areas including fraud, financial crime, data management, risk and intelligence.
Requirements
- At least three years of industry experience in a data engineering role or equivalent, and preferably at least four years of software industry experience.
- Proficiency in Scala, java, python, or a programming language associated with data engineering.
- Expertise in building and deploying production level data processing batch systems.
- Experience with a variety of modern development tooling (e.g. Git, Gradle, Nexus) and technologies supporting automation and DevOps (e.g. Jenkins, Docker and a little bit of good old Bash scripting).
- Familiarity with developing within a version-controlled process that regularly makes use of these tools and technologies.
- Strong technical communication ability with demonstrable experience of working in rapidly changing client environments.
- Knowledge of testing libraries of common programming languages (such as ScalaTest or equivalent).
- Understanding of the difference between varying test types (unit test, integration test) and ability to cite specific examples of what they have written themselves.
Nice To Haves
- Some experience supporting or mentoring a graduate or junior engineer within a team to help them grow.
- The desire to grow with our business and your role – over time, you might get the opportunity to lead on projects.
Responsibilities
- Writing defensive, fault tolerant and efficient code for production level data processing systems.
- Configuring and deploying Quantexa software using tools such as Spark, Hadoop, Scala, Elasticsearch, with our platform being hosted on both private and public virtual clouds, such as Google cloud, Microsoft Azure and Amazon.
- Articulate technical concepts to a non-technical audience so they can make key decisions.
- Collaborate with both our solution architects and our R&D engineers to champion solutions and standards for complex big data challenges.
- Proactively promote knowledge sharing and ensure best practice is followed.
Benefits
- Competitive salary & Company bonus
- 100% RRSP match up to 5%
- Competitive annual leave, plus your birthday off, parental leave, PTO, and observed holidays
- Comprehensive benefits coverage, including mental health support, fitness reimbursements, and financial well-being
- Tax-advantageous benefits, such as commuter benefits, healthcare, and dependent care
- Regularly bench-marked salary rates
- Well-being days
- Volunteer Day off
- Work from Home Equipment
- Free Subscription to a meditation, relaxation and sleep app
- Continuous Training and Development
- Spend up to 2 months working outside of your country of employment over a rolling 12-month period with our ‘Work from Anywhere’ policy
- Team Social Budget & Company-wide Socials
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
