Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

TSR Consulting, Inc.; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

TSR Consulting, Inc. is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to deliver production-grade solutions for trading, risk, and operations. You will own discovery through production readiness, embedding with client teams to define delivery plans and translate business asks into technical specs.

You will architect scalable services with Spring Boot and microservices, work with Java and Python, and lead CI/CD pipelines and container orchestration on OpenShift/Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience in full-stack or backend roles.
• Strong production experience in Java and Python.
• Experience with Spring Boot, microservices, REST/gRPC and CI/CD.
• Hands-on with containerization and orchestration technologies.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact with client teams to gather requirements and define delivery plans.
• Prototype and deliver production-ready applications in Java or Python to solve trading, risk, and operational problems.
• Translate ambiguous business asks into clear technical specifications and sequencing.
• Architect and build scalable, resilient services using Spring Boot, REST/gRPC, and microservices patterns.
• Leverage Python frameworks for APIs, analytics, and automation as appropriate.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD with Tekton/OpenShift Pipelines and Jenkins.
• Deploy and operate containerized workloads on OpenShift/Kubernetes with reliability and security best practices.
• Model data and optimize queries across Oracle DB, MS SQL Server, and MongoDB.
• Ensure enterprise-grade security, auditability, and compliance throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Produce documentation and communicate architecture decisions to technical and business stakeholders.

Skills

Java proficiency (Core Java, 17+)

Python proficiency (3.x)

REST/gRPC

Spring Boot

Microservices

CI/CD (Tekton, Jenkins)

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Tekton/OpenShift Pipelines

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Oracle Database

MS SQL Server

MongoDB

Kafka

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer Spread Products (Financing & Securitization) to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Java, Python, Spring Boot, Microservices, CI/CD, and container orchestration and a proven ability to deliver production-grade solutions for trading, risk, and operations use cases while owning discovery through production readiness.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact embedded with client teams to gather requirements and define delivery plans.
• Prototype and deliver production-ready applications in Java or Python to solve trading, risk, and operational problems.
• Translate ambiguous business asks into clear technical specifications and sequencing.
• Architect and build scalable, resilient services using Spring Boot, REST/gRPC, and microservices patterns.
• Leverage Python frameworks for APIs, analytics, and automation as appropriate.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD with Tekton/OpenShift Pipelines and Jenkins.
• Deploy and operate containerized workloads on OpenShift/Kubernetes with best practices for reliability and security.
• Model data and optimize queries across Oracle Database, MS SQL Server, and MongoDB.
• Ensure enterprise-grade security, auditability, and compliance throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Produce documentation and communicate architecture decisions to technical and business stakeholders.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Expertise in Java (Core Java, Java 17+, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST/gRPC) and production experience in Python 3.x.
• Hands-on with Python frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask/Django, and data libraries like Pandas/NumPy.
• CI/CD with Tekton (Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines) and Jenkins.
• Containers and orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
• Database expertise with Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, and MongoDB, including performance tuning and schema design.
• API and integration experience with REST and messaging/streaming platforms such as Kafka or similar.
• Security-first mindset with secure coding practices and auditability for financial data.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience in full-stack or backend roles with customer-facing delivery exposure.

Preferred Skills:

• Monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and ELK/Splunk.
• Event-driven architectures and streaming design patterns.
• Python-based analytics and quant tooling including Jupyter and scikit-learn.
• Scripting and automation that combine Java and Python within one pipeline.
• Domain knowledge in Fintech, Capital Markets, or Securitization (ABS, MBS).