Senior Cloud Data Engineer

Candidate profile details:

Degree/Certifications Required: Computer science or related
Years of experience: 5yrs+
Reason for request/why opened: New projects – Replacement
Interaction with Stakeholders: 30 %
Project Scope: Regulatory law 25 projects
Team Size: 100 + ppl

Key accountabilities are:

• Responsible for leading technical aspects of project from inception through to deployment.
• Participate in analysis and system design specification sessions. Documentation of design options and solutions according to System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology.
• Ensure that solutions adhere to development best practices and architectural principles.
• Apply analytical skills to resolve problems and deliver viable solutions. Anticipate obstacles and execute proactive approaches to issues. Active participation in issue resolution.
• Provide detailed development estimates to Project Manager for development effort as well as weekly status reporting and budget forecasting.
• Configuration management for the sub projects within the release.
• Responsible for coding, testing, packaging, deployment, and support of builds as code is promoted from development, system, acceptance and production environments.
• May lead code reviews. Work closely with System Test Environment Management Team (STEMT) to ensure that environments are fully functional and that builds are properly deployed.
• Participate in development of test strategy, test plans, test cases and testing efforts (unit testing and integration testing of code).
• Provide technical support to business and testing team during testing phases.
• Track defects, defect triage and resolution.
• Data set up and environment shake down.
• Coaching / mentoring of junior developers. Knowledge transfer within group.
• Ensure required documentation is housed in the project repository and that knowledge transfer has occurred to full time staff upon completion of contract term.

Must have:

• Technical knowledge or experience with Cloud environments (MS Azure) as well as experience with Data Management and Analytics, Data Governance and Regulatory projects.
• Advanced technical knowledge and experience with: PySpark, SQL, Power BI and Tableau
• Project Management experience. The project requires working and communicating with multiple Pods.
• Experience with analyzing large data sets, drawing insights and inferences, and communicating outputs.
• Experienced with Data/Text Mining, Optimization, Algorithm Development, Automation, Data Visualization, Simulation
• Reading and comprehending data schemas, metadata, entity relationship diagrams and other technical documentation as well as writing documentation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with the ability to work collaboratively and effectively in a team environment.
• Strong statistical and analytical skills as well as a passion for analytics are necessary.
• Databricks experience.
• Synapse experience.

Nice To Have:

• Experience presenting in front of big crowds/senior leadership is a plus.
• Banking experience
• Law25 regulation

Job Details

Job ID: 13162
Contract Duration: 9 months
Location: Toronto