Sr. Big Data Developer to provide re-engineering expertise, covering design implementation and support of the RM applications for a large banking client - 146350-1

Location: Hybrid - 2 days in office, Downtown Toronto
Duration: 6 months, possiblity of extension
Interview Process: Two video interviews

Daily Responsibilities:

• Provide consulting services on new initiatives (small to large of varying complexity).
• Explore new emerging technologies and how they best suit our applications
• Develop, code, document and execute unit test, system, integration and acceptance test using different languages and testing tools for functions of high complexity.
• Ensure adequate technical documentation and training.
• Optimize spark jobs and java applications.

 
Project Name:

• This is a newly created position working on our regulatory project - RM (Risk Modernization), under Corporate Systems Strategic Programs. The primary focus of this role is to provide re-engineering expertise, covering design implementation and support of the RM applications, namely ATOM and MDSS2. Additional focus will be to work with other internal application development teams.
• A technical expert in developing, coding, testing and debugging new software or making significant improvements to existing software.  Experience and expertise must be significant to support the software design phases. Could be responsible for overall design, development and team coordination on the business system/application. Significant independent judgment is used and will be expected to act as a team leader on projects.

Must-have Skills:

• Experience in developing and optimizing Big Data applications using Java/Scala and Spark on Cloudera/HDP.
• 10+ years of IT solution delivery, preferably playing a diverse set of roles (e.g. programmer, architect, project manager)
• 10+ years of experience building large-scale, high-performing distributed systems
• 10+ years of experience using JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, Java Objective C, C++, Ruby, Python and/or Perl
• 10+ years of hands-on experience with Open Source Big Data technologies, including Hadoop.
• Detailed understanding of various database functions, Oracle, NoSQL, MongoDB, CouchDB
• Working knowledge of enterprise data and analytic disciplines such as enterprise Data Management, enterprise Data Warehousing, and Big Data Analytics
• Experience in developing/designing micro-service architecture.
• Experience in developing applications in Spring & Spring Boot
• Working knowledge of Jenkins CI, Git, JIRA

Nice-to-have Skills:

•  Knowledge in Market Risk/Capital Markets/Banking
• Experience in building data pipelines on AWS/Azure

What program/technology/software knowledge is essential for this role?

• 5+ years application development experience in Hadoop, Spark and Java/Scala
• 7+ years application development experience in Java and Spring Framework
• 10+ years of full development life cycle experience, from architecture through test and deployment and cross platform skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science