Senior Developer - Banking operations processing - Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Societe Generale SA; Montreal; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Societe Generale is seeking a senior hands-on developer to design, build, and evolve Market Risk platforms in a global banking environment. You will drive the technical evolution, participate in architecture discussions, and ensure delivery of high-impact risk features for the AMER region.

You will lead the migration to the Metric Platform (MPT), adopt event-driven architectures, and work with modern data technologies like Spark, Kafka, and Azure Data Lake, while collaborating with Front Office

Qualifications

• Experience designing distributed systems with modern architectures (event-driven, data platforms).
• 7+ years minimum experience as a hands-on senior developer, contributing to system design and code reviews.
• Ability to balance run, build and transformation priorities while delivering robust risk platforms.
• Strong communication skills to interact with business stakeholders and users.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve Market Risk platforms delivering reliable, scalable solutions.
• Contribute to migration from VMR to Metric Platform (MPT) and modern data tech (Java, Kafka, Spark).
• Engage in architecture discussions and promote engineering best practices.
• Mentor and support less experienced developers through code reviews and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Java

C#

Azure

Kafka

Spark

SQL

REST APIs

Spring Boot

JUnit

Maven

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Azure Data Lake

Tools

Spring Boot

JUnit

Maven

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Azure Data Lake

ELK Stack

Job description

Responsibilities

At Société Générale, Global Banking Technology & Operations (GBTO) Canada plays a key role in delivering mission-critical services to the investment and corporate banking businesses. We are at the heart of the bank’s transformation, driving agility, promoting a strong engineering and data culture, and accelerating decision‑making through modern, industrialized delivery models.

Our teams work across business lines and geographies to build scalable, innovative solutions.

Within this environment, the Market Risk and Collateral (MRC) team is part of the Cross Risk Metrics (XRM) department. We design and develop platforms that support the Market Risk function (RISQ), enabling the monitoring and control of key risk metrics and limits applied to Front Office activities.

As part of the AMER region, you will join a growing and high‑impact team working on strategic initiatives. Reporting to the Regional Head of MRC, you will be a senior contributor to the design, development, and modernization of XRM/MRC applications within the AMER region, contributing to strategic technology initiatives and global platform evolution while remaining fully hands-on.

YOUR MISSION

Design, build, and evolve Market Risk platforms that deliver reliable and scalable solutions for the business. Your mission is to contribute to the technical excellence and evolution of Market Risk applications within a global banking environment.

You will play a key role in the design, development, testing, and continuous improvement of critical risk platforms while remaining fully hands-on. Working closely with business users, architects, and fellow engineers, you will help deliver high‑quality solutions that meet functional and non‑functional requirements.

A major focus of the role will be contributing to the progressive migration from the Volcker Metrics Repository (VMR) to the strategic Metric Platform (MPT). You will participate in the modernization of the platform, helping to adopt event‑driven architectures and modern data technologies including Java, Kafka, Data Lake, and Spark.

You will contribute to architecture discussions, promote engineering best practices, support production systems, and help improve software quality, performance, and operational resilience.

Through technical leadership by example, knowledge sharing, and collaboration, you will help strengthen the team’s expertise and accelerate the adoption of modern development practices.

What will be your DAY-TO-DAY?

• Contribute to the VMR → Metric Platform transformation, designing and implementing new capabilities while supporting the migration toward a modern ecosystem (Java, Kafka, Data Lake, Spark).
• Contribute to architecture and technical design discussions, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise standards and target‑state architecture.
• Partner closely with Market Risk and Front Office end users and stakeholders to refine requirements and ensure delivery of high‑impact PnL and risk features.
• Ensure platform stability and reliability by acting a senior escalation point for Level 3 support activities, investigating complex production issues, and driving root‑cause analysis and continuous improvement.
• Strengthen DevOps and engineering excellence, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, improving automation, managing code quality (SonarQube), addressing vulnerabilities, and ensuring compliance with internal standards.
• Promote engineering excellence through knowledge sharing, technical collaboration, code reviews, and the adoption of modern development practices and tools.

TECHNICAL Stack

• Software Craftsmanship best practices: DDD, BDD, TDD, Design Patterns, Clean code
• Language: Java 17 (or latest LTS), C# 10, C# 14
• Multithreading, concurrent programming
• Framework: Spring Boot (with Spring MVC for REST APIs), .Net 10
• Dependency Injection: Spring Framework core features, .Net DryIoC
• BigData: Spark, Kafka (Event Hub), Azure Datalake
• Database Access: Spring Data JPA with Hibernate ORM, Microsoft Entity Framework
• Database: PostgreSQL (or MySQL, Oracle), Azure SQL Database
• Security: Spring Security with JWT or OAuth2
• Build Tool: Maven
• Testing: JUnit 5, Mockito for unit and integration tests, NUnit, MSTest
• API Documentation: Springdoc OpenAPI (Swagger UI)
• DevOps: Github Actions, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux (On premise Server)
• Monitoring: ELK stack, Helm, Grafana
• Cloud: AzureProfile required

requiredSkills and Qualifications:Must Have

• Curiosity and enthusiasm for learning new technologies and exploring innovative practices (e.g., agent-assisted development)
• Proven ability to design, build, and evolve distributed systems with modern architectures (event‑driven, data platforms) Experience working as a senior hands‑on developer, contributing to system design, code reviews, and technical decision‑making.
• Ability to manage priorities across run (support), build (features), and transformation initiatives
• Strong communication skills and ability to interact directly with business stakeholders and end users
• A mindset focused on ownership, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

• Strong collaboration skills and ability to work effectively within distributed and multicultural teams.
• Comfortable driving technical improvements and contributing to modernization initiatives in a complex environment.
• Ability to balance solution quality, maintainability, and delivery objectives.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with a proactive and ownership‑driven mindset.
• Ability to mentor and support less experienced developers through code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.

Technical & Functional Skills

• Experience with event‑driven architectures and distributed systems
• Experience designing and operating cloud‑native applications in Azure environments.
• Strong understanding of data platforms and batch/stream processing
• Solid SQL skills and ability to analyze and troubleshoot data issue
• Experience with modern developer productivity tools, including AI‑assisted development and code review solutions, is an asset.
• Exposure to Market Risk, PnL, or Investment Banking environments is a strong advantage.

Languages: Fluency in English (French is a strong asset)

Ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing, is a requirement as the person in this position will need to collaborate regularly with colleagues and partners in the United States.

Experience:7years minimum

LANGUAGE:Ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing, is a requirement as the person in this position will need to collaborate regularly with colleagues and partners in the United States.

Due to US Federal Securities law that may apply to this position, candidates who will apply for this position may be required to submit to an enhanced background screening, including the collection of their fingerprints by a third‑party vendor selected by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA").

Why join us

Business insight

Societe Generale is committed to offering an inclusive recruitment experience to all candidates. If you require any reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let our Recruiters know.

OUR CULTURE

At Societe Generale, we live by our 4 core values of commitment, responsibility, team spirit and innovation. We are engaged and demonstrate consideration for others. We act ethically and with courage. We focus our talent and energy on collective success. We experiment and propose new ideas. This way, we maximize our ability to serve client needs and anticipate market changes. Societe Generale is committed to strengthening bonds with colleagues, communities, and the world in which we live, because relationships are at the heart of how we operate. For more information about our Culture and Conduct initiatives, please visit this link (https://americas.societegenerale.com/en/careers/get-know-culture/)

D&I

Our Diversity & Inclusion Mission: Recruit, develop, advance, and retain a diverse workforce that is united in our efforts to enhance our competitive position and deliver innovative solutions to our clients.

Our Diversity & Inclusion Vision: Engaged workforce that is demographically diverse in a way that reflects the communities in which we operate Inclusive culture and workplace that recognizes employees' unique needs and utilizes their diverse talents Engage our community and marketplace, and position the organization to meet the needs of all its clients

For more information about our D&I initiatives, please visit this link (https://americas.societegenerale.com/en/careers/get-know-diversity/)