Data Engineer Co-op

Referred applicants should not apply directly to this role.

All referred applicants must first be submitted through Workday by a current Loblaw Colleague.

Location:

500 Lake Shore Boulevard West, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 2V9

When you hire great people, great things can happen. 

PC Financial offers unprecedented value to Canadians through payment products. We're a different kind of bank with a different type of team—we’re collaborative and supportive and have the freedom and responsibility to thrive. Our purpose is to make the everyday simple and better for our customers, and we strive to make every dollar worth more.

Proudly serving over 3 million customers, PC Financial continues to grow by offering payment solutions and services that reward our customers every day. As a subsidiary of Loblaws Company Inc., we share the CORE values of Care, Ownership, Respect and Excellence. We are dedicated to helping Canadians Live Life Well. Join us on our journey.

 

4 Month Co-op 
Location: 500 Lake Shore Boulevard West Toronto (4 days a week in office) 
January 6, 2024-April 25, 2024 
 
 
 
When you hire great people, great things can happen. 
 
PC Financial offers unprecedented value to Canadians through payment products. We're a different kind of bank with a different type of team - we're collaborative and supportive and have the freedom and responsibility to thrive. Our purpose is to make the everyday simple and better for our customers, and we strive to make every dollar worth more. 
 
Proudly serving over 3 million customers, PC Financial continues to grow by offering payment solutions and services that reward our customers every day. As a subsidiary of Loblaws Company Inc., we share the CORE values of Care, Ownership, Respect and Excellence. We are dedicated to helping Canadians Live Life Well. Join us on our journey. 
 
Why This Role is Important 
This is a phenomenal opportunity for junior/intermediate engineering co-op to join our expanding data engineering team. You will contribute in developing systems that implement data products that meet extreme requirements on scalability, reliability, maintainability and quality. The ideal candidate will be someone who genuinely enjoys writing code that can analyze and handle large data using cloud computing. You will be working in a fast paced organization using Agile/Scrum methodology to deliver excellent solutions for our demanding customer service and operations requirements. 

 

What You'll Do: 

• Develop and apply your expertise in data and software engineering to design and implement data products that meet extreme requirements on scalability, reliability, maintainability, flexibility, auditability, and quality 

• Your primary area will be data engineering, but you are comfortable working in a secondary area of expertise such as data presentation/visualization, backend engineering, machine learning, or data modeling (SQL, NoSQL, Graph & Time-series) 

• Gaining technical expertise in building a data platform at scale to solve business, product, and technical use cases 

• Getting hands-on experience with technologies such as Elasticsearch, Apache Airflow, Apache Kafka, Apache Beam, Apache Spark, Hive, HDFS, Kubernetes (Openshift) 

• Getting hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform and technologies such as BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Dataproc, GCS, Looker, and other cloud-native offering 

 

What You Bring: 

• Have good coding skills (Data Structures and Algorithms) 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability 

• Strong written and verbal communication skills 

• Exposure to data science or machine-learning packages (Pandas, Pytorch, Keras, TensorFlow, etc...) 

• Contributions to open-source software (code, docs, or mailing list posts) 

 

Come and join a winning team who demonstrates innovation, energy, creativity and vision.  We recognize the importance of a diverse workforce and we therefor encourage applications from Aboriginal Peoples, women, members of a visible minority and persons with a disability.  We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Number of Openings:

1

PC Financial recognizes Canada's diversity as a source of national pride and strength. We have made it a priority to reflect our nation’s evolving diversity in the products we sell, the people we hire, and the culture we create in our organization. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants and colleagues with disabilities.

In addition, we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing.  Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct – it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.

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