Senior Data Engineering Developer

Senior Data Engineering Developer

At Interac, we design and deliver products and solutions that give Canadians control over their money so they can get more out of life. But that’s not all. Whether we’re leading real-time money movement, driving innovative commerce solutions like open payments for transit systems, or making advancements in new areas like verification and open banking, we are playing a key role in shaping the future of the digital economy in Canada.

Want to make a lasting impact amongst a community of creative thinkers, problem solvers, technical virtuosos, and high-performance developers? We want to hear from you.

The Senior Data Engineering Developer will be responsible for designing, developing, and supporting the implementation of high-quality and sustainable data fulfillment solutions to improve business outcomes. You’ll work with several teams to develop and maintain data pipelines to improve workflows and automate processes wherever possible.

You'll be responsible for:

• Designing, developing, implementing, and monitoring highly scalable processes to ingest and process high volume transactions while ensuring high performance and quality.

• Collaborating with various teams to translate business and analytics requirements into a data fulfillment strategy including building data pipelines, data aggregations, infrastructure and tooling to support business initiatives.

• Overseeing the design and maintenance of data pipelines and contributing to the continual enhancement of the data engineering architecture.

• Working with other developers, engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to continuously explore new capabilities and technologies to drive innovation.

• Collaborating with the team to meet performance, scalability, and reliability goals.

• Developing standards for data processes and automating routine tasks while ensuring the timing of automatic jobs do not conflict with application processes.

• Writing out tests and thorough documentation for processes and tooling.

• Supporting data transformation testing and production implementation as required.

• Adapting to working with new technologies and frameworks, sometimes headlining the investigation into their usefulness to the team.

• Supporting the team with problem analysis and resolution.

• Maintaining and expanding existing systems, tooling, and infrastructure.

• Management and proactive monitoring of data flows ensuring data integrity and performance.

• Participating in rotating on-call support.

• Mentoring and coaching a talented team of engineers to maintain best practices in data engineering.

You bring:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in data or software engineering. Preferably leading teams.

• A university degree in Computer Science Engineering or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• A solid foundation in data structures, distributed systems, algorithms, data modeling, data pipeline processes, data integration patterns and software design.

• Eligibility to work for Interac Corp. in Canada in a full-time capacity.

• Hands on experience with implementing dimensional models in SQL as well as experience with RDBMS (Oracle), BigData (Hive, Impala) environments, Apache Spark framework (PySpark preferred).

• A demonstration of the Agile mindset, and strong experience in problem-solving within Agile environments.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to a varied audience.

• Experience building out a scalable infrastructure to fit the needs of a growing company.

• Experience with data warehousing, operational data stores, large-scale implementations and ETL/ELT/data streaming processing.

• Exposure to Big Data technologies including development, performance tuning, and standard operational activities involved.

• Awareness that security is one of the most critical parts in any data related projects.

• Experience in data ingestion and processing including Third-Party APIs

• Experience with Github and CI/CD practices is an asset

• Experience with testing frameworks such as Jest, pytest or equivalent.•Strong organization, collaboration and relationship building skills.

​​Knowledge of and proven experience with: 

• Cloud tools and services (such as AWS, Cloudera, GCP, Databricks).

• Cloud based Data Warehousing tools (such as AWS Redshift, BigQuery, DB SQL, Snowflake).

• ETL or Data Integration tools (Talend preferred).

• Oracle PL/SQL, SQL, Python, pyspark and Java.

Interac requires employees to complete a background check that is completed by one of our service providers.  We use this service to complete the following checks:

• Canadian criminal record check;
• Public safety verification;
• Canadian ID cross-check;
• 5-year employment verification;
• Education verification; and
• If applicable, Credit Inquiry and Social Media Check

How we work
We know that exceptional people have great ideas and are passionate about their work.  Our culture encourages excellence and actively rewards contributions with:

Connection: You’re surrounded by talented people every day who are driven by their passion of a common goal.

Core Values:  They define us. Living them helps us be the best at what we do.

Compensation & Benefits: Pay is driven by individual and corporate performance and we provide a multitude of benefits and perks.

Education: To ensure you are the best at what you do we invest in you