Senior Data Engineering Developer (8 Month-Fixed-Term)

About the role

Every transaction matters. Every Canadian matters. At Interac, we protect both - driving trust, security, and inclusion, so our digital economy thrives. Founded in 1984, Interac connects Canadians through secure digital payments, advanced identity verification and industry-leading fraud protection. Connecting banks, businesses, and individuals, Interac enables millions to send, receive, and manage money safely and effortlessly every day - across both digital and physical environments. As the backbone of Canada's financial ecosystem, Interac facilitates over 20 million transactions daily, supported by trusted partnerships with government and financial institutions. Consistently ranked as Canada's most reputable financial technology brand, Interac is deeply embedded in the daily lives of Canadians. Who You Will Work With: The Senior Data Engineering Developer (8 Months Fixed Term Contract) will be responsible for designing, developing, and supporting the implementation of high-quality and sustainable data fulfilment 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 fulfilment 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.
• Management and proactive monitoring of data flows ensuring data integrity and performance.
• Participating in rotating on-call support.
• What You Bring:
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in data or software engineering.
• 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
• Strong organization, collaboration and relationship building skills.
• What We're Offering:
• The hiring range for this position is $125,000 - $145,000,. The exact amount will depend on factors such as skills, experience, and job-related knowledge, but Interac's commitment goes beyond compensation. Our Total Rewards package is designed to support your well-being and future, and includes:
• Generous vacation and wellness days to help you recharge
• Comprehensive employer-paid benefits coverage for peace of mind
• Flexible hybrid work model for better work-life balance
• Access to a free and confidential 24/7 employee & family assistance program to offer support for you and your immediate family
• Charitable donation matching with United Way to amplify your impact
• Why Join Us?
• At Interac, the impact we make, and the people who drive it, is profound. When you become part of our team, you're joining a purpose-drive

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