
Senior Staff Engineer, GFT - Halifax
- Halifax, NS
- Permanent
- Temps-plein
Compliance is a team within Global Functions Technology that deals with trading and employee surveillance, privacy, and risk governance. This position is within the Compliance Technology areas of GFT. The ideal candidate will be developing and implementing solutions and resolving complex issues in a variety of projects in the trade surveillance eco system. This role will act as a technical leader in Halifax and report to the Director of Data and Engineering for Compliance Technology.WHAT WILL YOU DO?
- Become a SME in the trade surveillance application portfolio
- Create system and application designs, software and technical architecture, in accordance with strategies and objectives.
- Providing expertise for the Compliance Technology team and other IT staff on a variety of issues in software designs, system architecture and solution-oriented technologies.
- Communicating with clients and analyses business requirements and processes; making recommendations and leading in shaping future plans in Compliance Technology.
- Overseeing project outcomes, including hardware and software design; ensuring that each project phase meets overall requirements
Must have:
- 10+ years of experience in data engineering or a related field with proven experience in designing and optimizing data pipelines, db schemas, ETL processes, and data warehousing.
- Proven experience as a technology lead applying best engineering practices for peer review of code, designs, specifications, and unit tests
- Proficient with languages and technologies for big data (Scala, Python, R, Java, Spark, DataBricks, Snowflake).
- Extensive experience with Unit Testing and TDD in particular.
- Familiarity with kdb+.
- Familiarity with DevOps tools (Jenkins/Github Actions).
- Experience working with container, orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Capital Markets/Wealth management and/or regulatory experience
- A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
- Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
- Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
- A world-class training program in financial services
- Flexible work/life balance options
- Opportunities to do challenging work