Maplesoft Group is currently seeking an Onsite Tech Lead Data Engineer for our client.
Tasks and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:
Services:
- Provide leadership and guidance to staff. Supervise, coach, coordinate and monitor work, workload and performance of staff to ensure quality, continuous learning opportunities, and on-time completion of departmental deliverables and commitments. Will be required to provide input to annual performance management reviews. Participates in the recruitment and evaluation of Information Access and Delivery staff, as well as the selection of external contractors as required.
- Acts as Technical Leader on new and operational projects and leads/coordinates design and development activities related to data pipelines focusing on analytical and BI needs of the organization. Activities include participation in requirements identification and feasibility analysis, generation of technical solutions and design, coding, testing, quality assurance, implementation and all supporting project artefacts and documentation. Such as Technical Design Document (TDD), source to target mapping document and unit/system integration testing strategies.
- Collaborates with Architecture & Standards on creating frameworks, reference implementations and coding standard practices to be incorporated to the client's Architecture Blueprint. Gathers, analyses, and draws conclusions from large, diverse data sets to identify problems and contribute to decision-making in service of secure, stable application development.
- Develops data pipelines, visualizations and the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources. Works with assigned Information Technology and Services (ITS) project team/program area and provides leadership and technical guidance to other ITS staff in the development of system designs and automated information flows/processes based on user requirements and specifications for system implementations, enhancements and/or customizations.
- Ensures other Information Technology and Services (ITS) resources receive adequate information to perform their assigned project related tasks; coordinates and ensures timely delivery of these assigned task deliverables.
- Responsible for updating project status and change request reporting, facilitates the maintenance of project plans, issue identification and resolution management, risk mitigation and resource management.
The successful candidate must:
- Extensive experience in a senior technical leadership role with the ability to supervise and mentor staff.
- Project management knowledge and experience a definite asset. Experience in using the Enterprise Architect and Microsoft Office suite of products, including MS Project, Visio, PowerPoint and Excel.
- Experience in designing, developing and deploying large scale Data Integration/ETL solutions
- Profound knowledge and experience in developing PySpark data pipelines
- Demonstrated expertise in Data Warehouse/ETL architecture, data model principles and methodologies including Kimball and Inmon. Familiarity with data warehouse project development lifecycle is highly desirable
- Experience with AWS EMR clusters
- High knowledge of shell scripting
- Experience with Apache Airflow
- Exposure to Business Intelligence tools, Qlik Sense preferred, and demonstrates a good understanding of the entire BI production suite
- Practical Experience in development of logical/physical data models for data warehouse and data mart tables, including star schema and 3NF implementations is an asset
- Ability to work on multiple projects concurrently and prioritize tasks based on changing events
- Experience and knowledge of Quality Assurance methods and protocols for ETL/DW.
- Have hands-on experience building applications with large data sets
- Be able to implement the proposed technical solution using the the client's Cloud Technology stack (AWS, Redshift, S3)
- Exposure to agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
- Ability to work on multiple projects concurrently and prioritize tasks based on changing events
- Experience and knowledge of Quality Assurance methods and protocols for data pipelines and BI Web Applications
- Excellent interpersonal, facilitation, presentation and communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex issues and processes in simple user terminology
Maplesoft Group prides itself on its distinct corporate culture and recognizes that success is a direct reflection of our most valuable asset - our people. Therefore, attitude and ambition are key personality traits we seek out, along with skill and aptitude, in potential employees.
Maplesoft Group is committed to having a diverse, representative workforce and continuing to build an inclusive environment. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals. Maplesoft Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants irrespective of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veterans’ status, Aboriginal peoples or any other legally protected factors.
All employment decisions are made based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications.
We are committed to developing inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes, and a work environment that supports our diverse workforce. Please let us know if you require accommodations at any stage of the recruitment process. We can be reached at Maplesoft Info at info@maplesoftgroup.com.
We thank you for your interest in Maplesoft Group and wish to advise you, that only candidates under consideration will be contacted.