Technical Lead, Data Platform

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About us :

Peoples Group is a boutique Financial Institution with offices located in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Montreal that has been in the Canadian marketplace for over 30 years.

Our mission is to exceed our customers' expectations by providing exceptional customer service backed by extensive product knowledge and experience.

Our culture here at Peoples Group is formed by our values; Strength-Based, Relationship Focused and Passionate Execution.

We believe people don't choose a company to work for, they choose a company to join. We also believe that people come first and each day we strive to be willing, trustworthy and creative.

About the work environment :

Peoples Group offers a flexible and hybrid work environment. In this role you will work a combination of in-office and remotely from home.

Typically, you'll be working regular business hours, Monday to Friday between 8 : 00am and 4 : 30pm with flexibility around start / end times.

We are hiring for this position out of our Toronto offices. Successful candidates who apply outside of this area will be expected to relocate and reside in location that is within a commutable distance.

About you :

You thrive in an environment where learning new technologies, building production ready and performant applications is part of your day-to-day job, and building solutions used by merchants and service providers.

You’re comfortable working across technology and business teams to drive solutions, help design solid technical solutions with security, performance and resiliency in mind, and know the difference between a proof of concept and production

As a people leader at Peoples Group, you are strength-based, engagement-focused and performance-oriented. People leaders understand themselves, their people, their subject matter, their outcomes and how their team's work contributes to the overall success of the organization.

About the Qualifications :

• 8+ years of experience working in software development.
• 4+ years of experience of design and development experience of services aggregating data from multiple different data sources.
• Participate in defining standards and guidelines around development (design, implementation), CI / CD, etc.
• Proficiency data engineering concepts, such as data warehouses, ETLs, etc.
• Mastery in Python, Spark, DBT, Orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster), Data visualization tools (PowerBI, Tableau, etc.

Data processing solutions (Talend, Monarch).

• Expert knowledge with Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) In-memory databases (Redis, etc.) Non-relational databases (MongoDB, etc.).
• Experienced with CI / CD methodologies and tools (Jenkins, GitHub Action CI, CircleCI, etc.).
• Expert knowledge of Logging, monitoring & alerting tools (CloudWatch, DataDog, etc.)
• Strong understanding of IT security best practices and data protection regulations.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.

About the day-to-day :

• Lead your development team to deliver reliable, scalable, and performant systems with resiliency and security top of mind.
• Responsible for the development team, ensuring teams are delivering high quality software.
• Code review PRs, coordinate releases, ensure user stories are understood and clear.
• Solve technical challenges with the teams, whether it’s a challenging new feature, or solving an issue integrating a new technology, you’re hands on and able to work with the team to solve technical issues.
• Code review, security review and ensure best practices are followed (unit tests, code formatting, logic and flows, documentation, etc.).

Compensation :

Peoples Group is pleased to offer employees a competitive annual salary plus a discretionary profit share opportunity. In addition, we are pleased to offer employees both group benefits and the option to participate in our RRSP matching program, beginning the first day of employment Salary for this position will vary between $130,000.

00 and $160,000.00 per year depending on the knowledge, skills, abilities and experience that the chosen candidate possess.

As part of our recruiting process, shortlisted candidates will be asked their salary expectations for this position.

Help us get to know you better by answering our application questions! Your participation is expected as an essential part of our selection process.

NOTE : Peoples Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Please accept our utmost appreciation for your interest;

however, only those applicants under consideration will be contacted.

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