Lead Engineer, Test Data Management

Thomas Reuters; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Lead Engineer for Test Data Management to enhance quality assurance solutions for cloud-based data warehouse systems. This role offers the chance to lead and innovate in data management, ensuring robustness and reliability in enterprise data systems. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience, particularly in SQL and Python, and demonstrate a strong understanding of data validation, analytics, and compliance principles.

Benefits

Hybrid Work Model

Flexibility & Work-Life Balance

Career Development and Growth

Industry Competitive Benefits

Social Impact Opportunities

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a Tester, Developer or Data Analyst.
• Advanced SQL Knowledge is a must.
• Experience planning and executing regression testing.

Responsibilities

• Design test data management frameworks and apply data masking.
• Mentor and lead testing of data development projects.
• Effectively communicate with engineering groups across the organization.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data Validation

Automation

Data Security

Performance Testing

Data Governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

K2View

ALM

Zephyr

Job description

Do you want to help one of the most respected companies in the world reinvent its approach to data? At Thomson Reuters, we are recruiting a team of motivated data professionals to transform how we manage and leverage our commercial data assets. It is a unique opportunity to join a diverse and global team with centers of excellence in Toronto, London, and Bangalore.

Are you excited about working at the forefront of the data driven revolution that will change the way a company works? Thomson Reuters Data and Analytics team is seeking an experienced Lead Engineer, Test Data Management with a passion for engineering quality assurance solutions for cloud-based data warehouse systems.

About the Role

As Lead Engineer, In this opportunity you will:

• Test Data Management, you play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our enterprise data systems. Your expertise in testing methods, data validation, and automation are essential to bring best-in-class standards to our data products.

• Design test data management frameworks, apply data masking, data sub-setting, and generate synthetic data to create robust test data solutions for enterprise-wide teams. You will collaborate with Engineers, Database Architects, Data Quality Stewards to build logical data models, execute data validation, design manual and automated testing

• Mentor and leadthe testing of key data development projects related to Data Warehouse and other systems. Lead engineering team members in implementation of test data best practices and the delivery of test data solutions.

• Be a thought leaderinvestigating leading edge quality technology for test data management and systems functionality including performance testing for data pipelines.

• Innovatecreate ETL mappings, workflows, functions to move data from multiple sources into target areas.

• Partner across the company with analytics teams, engineering managers, architecture teams and others to design and agree on solutions that meet business requirements.

• Effectively communicate and liaisewith other engineering groups across the organization, data consumers, and business analytic groups.

• Utilize your experiencein the following areas:

  • SQL for data querying, validation, and analysis

  • Knowledge of database management systems (e.g., SQL Server, Postgresql, mySQL)

  • Test Data Management Tools (e.g., K2View, qTest, ALM, Zephyr)

  • Proficiency in Python for test automation and data manipulation

  • PySpark for big data testing

  • Test case design, execution, and defect management

  • AWS Cloud Data practices and DevOps tooling

  • Performance testing for data management solutions, especially for complex data flows

  • Data Security, Privacy, and Data governance compliance principles

About You

You're a fit for the role of Lead Engineer, If your Job role includes:

• 10+ years of experience as a Tester, Developer or Data Analyst with experience in establishing end-to-end test strategies, planning for data validation, transformation, and analytics

• Advanced SQL Knowledge

• Designing and executing test procedures and documenting best practices

• Experience planning and executing regression testing, data validation, and quality assurance

• Advanced command of data warehouse creation, management, and performance strategies

• Experience engineering and implementing data quality systems in the cloud Proficiency in scripting language such as Python

• Hands on experience with data test automation applications (preference for K2View)

• Identification and remediation of data quality issues

• Data Management tools like: K2View, Immuta, Alation, Informatica

• Agile development

• Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing concepts

• Familiarity SAP, Salesforce systems

• Intermediate understanding of Big Data technologies

• AWS services and management, including serverless, container, queueing and monitoring services

• Experience with creating manual or automated tests on data pipelines

• Programming languages: Python

• Data interchange formats: Parquet, JSON, CSV

• Version control with GitHub

• Cloud security and compliance, privacy, GDPR

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

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