Location Address: Toronto hybrid – 1 – 3 days/per week in the office ( no specific days)
Contract Duration: 6 months
FTE Opportunity: Potentially
Extension Opportunity: Yes
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30AM-5PM (7.5 hours/day)
Positions Required: 2
Reason: Additional support
Typical Day in Role:
• Develop and maintain the overall data architecture for the cloud-based platform, ensuring it supports business requirements and adheres to best practices.
• Lead the integration of diverse data sources using Replication tools, APIs, and batch file processes, ensuring seamless data flow, data quality, and consistency.
• Continuously monitor and optimize the performance of data on cloud and other data components to ensure high availability, scalability, and efficiency.
• Establish and enforce data governance policies, data quality standards, and security measures to protect sensitive information and ensure compliance with industry regulations and best practices.
• Collaborate with business analysts, data analysts, data scientists and other stakeholders to understand data requirements and translate them into robust technical solutions that align with the overall data strategy.
• Create and maintain detailed documentation of data architecture, integration processes, and standards to ensure clarity, consistency, and knowledge sharing across the team.
• Provide expert-level support for data-related issues, including troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and implementing effective solutions to maintain system reliability and performance.
• Stay abreast of the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices. Proactively seek opportunities to enhance the data architecture, integration processes, and overall data management strategy.
• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.
• Work independently within provided guidelines, receiving general direction from the Director on policies and projects.
Candidate Requirements/Must-Have skills:
• 5+ years of experience in Financial Industry and Commercial Banking.
• 8 -10 years of experience in data architecture and data management: Proven track record in designing and implementing data solutions on cloud platforms, particularly with SQL MI and ADF or similar tools.
• 8-10 years of experience with data integration technologies such as QLIK
• Proficiency in integrating data from various sources using APIs, batch file processes, and other ETL tools.
• In-depth knowledge of data governance and security practices: Experience in implementing data governance frameworks and ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.
• Fluently in Spanish is mandatory
Nice-To-Have Skills:
Experience with GCP.
Soft Skills:
• You are a creative, self-starting, results-oriented, and highly motivated individual with very good analytical skills that you apply to the resolution of complex problems.
• You possess very good interpersonal and communication skills that you use to effectively work with stakeholders and members of the project team.
• You are a voracious learner who likes to take on new challenges, while simultaneously taking pride in continuous improvement of existing software products, with the goal of providing an outstanding service for our customers.
• You have a knack for deriving insights out of data and applying them to address business opportunities.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Best vs. Average Candidate:
• The best candidate is someone with Commercial Banking experience and previous roles as Data engineers and Data Governance.
Education:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field: Advanced degrees or relevant certifications (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer) are a plus.
Candidate Review & Selection
Candidate Review & Selection
Two rounds of interviews
1st round – HM – 30 mins – 45 mins – MS Teams Video – The first 15 mins is for Introduction, project overview, and what we are looking for, next 15 mins to assess with questions previous experience related to Data Architech. No coding is required. The manager will ask questions about Data Modelling. No technical assessments are required.
2nd round –Director – 30 mins – MS Teams Video – ‘’get to know’’ questions such as ‘’Tell about you’’ and other behavioral questions.
The targeted start date is Dec 2nd or earlier.