Sr. Java Developer – Capital Markets

Highbrow LLC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Toronto is looking for an experienced data engineer to ensure data quality across systems, optimize data pipelines, and provide technical support. Candidates should have over 6 years of experience, including expertise in Java, big data tools, and capital markets. Strong communication skills and a customer-focused mindset are essential for success in this dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant experience in a related field of job function.
• 5+ years of Capital Markets experience.
• Experience in designing production grade, scalable applications and microservices.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Java

Spring

Hadoop

Spark

Kafka

Python

Scala

Education

Undergraduate Degree

Tools

HDFS

ADLS

ADF

Databricks

Dremio

Cassandra

Job description

Job Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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
• Desired: 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
• Has strong customer focus
• Experience in Python, Scala