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Senior Data Engineer (Secret II Clearance)
What we’re all about.
It isn’t often you get to be part of a tech company that, since 2016, has been innovating the data analytics market in ways no-one else can. Our technology started out in FinTech, helping tackle serious criminal activity. Now, its potential is virtually limitless. Working at Quantexa isn't just intellectually stimulating. We’re a real team. Collaborating and constantly engineering better and better solutions. We’re ambitious, we think things through and we’re on a mission to discover just how far we can go. Nearly half of our colleagues come from an ethnic or religious minority background. We’re made up of people from 47 nationalities who speak over 20 languages. As a diverse mix of individuals, we make one big unstoppable team.
If our incredible culture sounds like you, we’d love you to join us.
The opportunity.
Our Quantexa Delivery team is all about contextualizing data. As a senior data engineer, you bring it all together. Working within a fast-paced team, you'll implement Quantexa’s innovative technology for an ever-expanding list of domains including banking, insurance, government, healthcare. From building an end-to-end data pipeline that uses our award-winning software, to configuring our decision-making platform to detect key insights, there’s always a new challenge around the corner.
You’ll need to be a problem solver. The challenges we tackle are big, but they're also incredibly rewarding. Your contributions in managing, transforming, and cleansing high volume data help our clients solve business problems in areas including fraud, financial crime, data management, risk and customer intelligence.
What you’ll be doing.
Writing defensive, fault tolerant and efficient code for production level data processing systems.
Configuring and deploying Quantexa software using tools such as Spark, Hadoop, Scala, Elasticsearch, with our platform being hosted on both private and public virtual clouds, such as Google cloud, Microsoft Azure and Amazon.
You’ll be a trusted source of knowledge for clients, partners and developers. And you’ll articulate technical concepts to a non-technical audience so they can make key decisions.
Collaborate with both our solution architects and our R&D engineers to champion solutions and standards for complex big data challenges. You proactively promote knowledge sharing and ensure best practice is followed.
This role will require travel to client offices in Ottawa as needed.
Requirements
What you’ll bring.
You’ll have a background in hands-on technical development, with at least four years of industry experience in a data engineering role or equivalent.
Proficiency in Scala, java, python, or a programming language associated with data engineering. Our primary language is Scala, but don’t worry if that’s not currently your strongest language. We believe that strong engineering principles are universal and transferable.
As an expert in building and deploying production level data processing batch systems, you’ll share an appreciation of what makes a high quality, operationally stable system and how to streamline all areas of development, release, and operations to achieve this.
Experience with a variety of modern development tooling (e.g. Git, Gradle, Nexus) and technologies supporting automation and DevOps (e.g. Jenkins, Docker and a little bit of good old Bash scripting). You’ll be familiar with developing within a version-controlled process that regularly makes use of these tools and technologies.
A strong technical communication ability with demonstrable experience of working in rapidly changing client environments.
Knowledge of testing libraries of common programming languages (such as ScalaTest or equivalent). Importantly, you’ll know the difference between varying test types (unit test, integration test) and can cite specific examples of what they have written themselves.
A valid Secret-level government security clearance, either current or in the past 12 months, is a mandatory requirement for this position.
Nice to haves.
Some experience supporting or mentoring a graduate or junior engineer within a team to help them grow.
The desire to grow with our business and your role – over time, you might get the opportunity to lead on projects.
Benefits
Our perks and quirks.
What makes you Q will help you to realize your full potential, flourish and enjoy what you do, while being recognized and rewarded with our broad range of benefits.
We offer:
Competitive salary
Company bonus
100% RRSP match up to 5%
Competitive annual leave, plus your birthday off, parental leave, PTO, and observed holidays
Comprehensive benefits coverage, including mental health support, fitness reimbursements, and financial well-being
Tax-advantageous benefits, such as commuter benefits, healthcare, and dependent care
Regularly bench-marked salary rates
Well-being days
Volunteer Day off
Work from Home Equipment
Free Calm App Subscription #1 app for meditation, relaxation and sleep
Continuous Training and Development, including access to Udemy Business
Spend up to 2 months working outside of your country of employment over a rolling 12-month period with our ‘Work from Anywhere’ policy
Employee Referral Program
Team Social Budget & Company-wide Socials
Our mission
We have one mission. To help businesses grow. To make data easier. And to make the world a better place. We’re not a start-up. Not anymore. But we’ve not been around that long either. What we are is a collection of bright, passionate minds harnessing complexities and helping our clients and their communities. One culture, made of many. Heading in one direction – the future.
It's all about you
We want you to feel welcome, valued, and respected—because it’s your individuality and passion that make you Q. We see that, and we celebrate it. That’s why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse work environment, continuously improving to ensure everyone belongs. Our recruitment process is designed to be inclusive and accessible. If you need any reasonable adjustments or accommodations, please let our Talent Acquisition Team know—we’re happy to assist.
No matter your race, beliefs, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, neurodiversity, or abilities—whoever you are—if you're a passionate, curious, and caring human eager to push the boundaries of what’s possible, we want to hear from you.
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in Canada.
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Ottawa, ON, Canada
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