Senior Data Engineer

Role Description

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
• Customer intelligence

What you’ll be doing:

• 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.
• Being a trusted source of knowledge for your clients and articulating technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Collaborating with both our solution architects and our R&D engineers to champion solutions and standards for complex big data challenges.
• Proactively promoting knowledge sharing and ensuring best practices are followed.

Qualifications

• At least three years of industry experience in a data engineering role or equivalent.
• 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 modern development tooling (e.g. Git, Gradle, Nexus) and technologies supporting automation and DevOps (e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Bash scripting).
• Strong technical communication ability with experience in rapidly changing client environments.
• Knowledge of testing libraries of common programming languages (such as ScalaTest or equivalent).
• Understanding of varying test types (unit test, integration test) with specific examples of what they have written themselves.

Requirements

• Some experience supporting or mentoring a graduate or junior engineer within a team.
• The desire to grow with our business and your role.

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.
• Opportunity to work outside of your country of employment over a rolling 12-month period with our ‘Work from Anywhere’ policy.
• Team Social Budget & Company-wide Socials.

Company Description

We have one mission. To help businesses grow. To make data easier. And to make the world a better place. We’re not a start-up. Not anymore. But we’ve not been around that long either. What we are is a collection of bright, passionate minds harnessing complexities and helping our clients and their communities. One culture, made of many. Heading in one direction – the future.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse work environment, continuously improving to ensure everyone belongs. Our recruitment process is designed to be inclusive and accessible.

If you need any reasonable adjustments or accommodations, please let our Talent Acquisition Team know - we’re happy to assist.