Senior Developer

BMO•Toronto, ON

7d•CA$75,900 - CA$141,900•Hybrid

About The Position

At BMO Financial Group, we believe in our people and provide a winning culture in which they can achieve their full potential. As one of North America's highly diversified financial service providers, we are always looking for innovative ways to serve our customers. We have a dynamic, purpose-driven, digital-first environment that aims at helping our customers make real financial progress. In this role the candidate will work in a team of software developers, accountable for automating, standardizing, and building data engineering processes for analytic applications across various lines of businesses. The curation and transformations of the data and the underlying processes are managed by Customer Data Engineering (CDE) under Canadian Personal and Business Banking, Data AI Transformation and Analytics (D.A.T.A.) division. This position will require the individual to provide technical insight and design software applications for ETL pipelines that deliver innovative business solutions. The candidate will use their knowledge of programming tools coupled with software development life cycle (SDLC) principles and problem-solving capabilities to deliver robust automated processes. They will continuously look for ways to improve the efficiency and lifecycle of the jobs and will enforce development best practices in building and sustaining an efficient, reliable and scalable environment.

Requirements

University or college degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering or equivalent
4+ years of working experience in Information technology, ETL development, analytics, data modeling, data science or related
Experience with programing languages, SQL, PL/SQL, Python, and Unix scripting
Knowledge of job scheduling and orchestration tools such as Autosys and AirFlow
Knowledge of relational databases such as Sybase IQ, Redshift
Possesses excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Communicates clearly and concisely, both orally and written
Demonstrates solid analytical and problem resolving skills
Illustrates decision making, planning, collaboration and influencing skills
Exemplifies initiative and creativity to drive solutions

Nice To Haves

Experience with ETL tools such as Ab Initio, Informatica or SAS will be an asset
Knowledge cloud native tools and data modelling tools will be an asset

Responsibilities

Responsible for analysis and design to create efficient data flows that support business processes
Performs detailed impact analysis to assess business requirements
Creates architectural design to create and implement automated code processes
Creates functional test plans for appropriate level of testing
Provides awareness of changes and associated impacts to the environment
Responsible for developing robust, efficient, and scalable applications for the business
Creates test plans and performs appropriate functional testing on the process
Contributes to the continuous improvement of development best practices and standards within the software development life cycle framework
Ensures successful delivery and execution of the transformation processes
Collaborates and provides feedback to peers and ensures standards are maintained
Prepares process documentation and communicates issues and resolutions
Develops good working relationship with internal technology teams and business partners
Takes ownership of data issues, communicates and notifies appropriate teams as needed
Consults with support teams to identify and resolve issues, and prevent reoccurrences
Performs periodic review of the processes to identify any opportunity for improvement and make recommendations as needed
Maintains good knowledge of emerging business needs to enable better customer experience