Sr. Java Developer – Capital Markets

Highbrow LLC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Data Engineer to ensure data quality, optimize pipelines, and support application design. This senior role requires an undergraduate degree, extensive related experience, and proficiency in Java and big data tools. Ideal candidates possess a strong sense of ownership and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years relevant experience in data engineering.
• 5+ years experience in Capital Markets.
• Experience working on Agile Teams.

Responsibilities

• Ensure data quality and integrity across data sources.
• Optimize data pipelines for performance and scalability.
• Provide technical support for escalated incidents.

Skills

Java

Spring

Hadoop

HDFS

Spark

SQL

NoSQL

Education

Undergraduate Degree

Tools

Kafka

Databricks

Dremio

Job description

• Ensure data quality and integrity across various data sources and systems to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and reliability.
• Optimize data pipelines for performance and scalability.
• Provide technical support to promptly resolve escalated incidents / outages.
• Develop and document a detailed solution design, impart your subject matter expertise throughout life cycle.
• Take business, Enterprise Architecture, system performance and development standards requirements, then develop functional, technical and user interface designs for an application and / or system.
• Find ways to keep costs low, help come up with strategic solutions to support cost effectiveness and enhance stakeholder experience.
• Conduct code reviews to address quality, standards compliance, reusability and ease of maintenance, Operational Readiness Reviews, and support gating and review sign-offs for solution design.
• Ensure design leverages existing reusable components, traces back to business requirements, and that new modules are designed with reusability in mind.
• Keep up to date with the latest industry trends and technologies related to data engineering.
• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture
• Implement data products curated by our Chief Data Office, as well as custom data models for fit for use.

Skills and Experience Required :

Required :

• Undergraduate Degree.
• 6+ years of relevant experience in a related field of job function.
• Experience with : Java, Spring
• Experience with one of the following big data tools : Hadoop, HDFS, ADLS, ADF, Spark, Kafka, Databricks, Dremio etc.
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Cassandra.
• Experience designing production grade, scalable applications and microservices.
• 5+ years of Capital Markets experience.
• Experience working on Agile Teams
• Takes great personal pride in building robust software
• Strong sense of ownership
• Passionate about programming and computer science
• Enjoys working in a fast-paced environment
• Has excellent written and verbal communication skills