Big Data Engineer

Venture outside the ordinary - TMX Careers

The TMX group of companies includes leading global exchanges such as the Toronto Stock Exchange, Montreal Exchange, and numerous innovative organizations enhancing capital markets.

United as a global team, we're connecting cross-functionally, traversing industries and geographies, moving opportunity into action, advancing global economic growth, and propelling progress.

Through a rich exchange of ideas, meaningful collaboration, and a nimble operating model, we're powering some of the nation's most critical systems, fueling capital formation and innovation, bringing increased opportunity to business visionaries, product ingenuity to consumers, and career exploration to our team.

Ready to be part of the action?

We are looking for a seasoned and motivated Big Data Engineer to join our growing team of Enterprise Data and Advanced Analytics Platform.

The ideal candidate is an expert data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up.

They must be self-directed and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, systems and products across a full spectrum of technologies.

This role will report into Senior Manager, Data & Analytics

Responsibilities :

• Build and maintain efficient data pipeline architecture.
• Assemble large, sophisticated data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements : automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, performance, etc.
• Administration and management of all AWS services, such as S3 buckets, RDS databases, EC2 instances, EMR, VPC network, Security Groups, Cloud Formation stacks, CloudWatch, Managed Airflow, Simple Notification Services, etc.
• Experience working with bulk and streaming data - ingest, transform and store into cloud-based systems
• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and AWS 'big data' technologies.
• Practice established development disciplines such as good code management, branching and merging of code in a GIT repository.
• Have relevant and highly developed professional and technical skills; experienced level of knowledge in field of expertise and strong knowledge of business / context
• Collaborate with external and internal clients, manage expectations and handle queries
• Be available for on-call and off business hours support on a rotation basis
• Act as an active great teammate and mentor junior staff members by conducting technical reviews and brainstorming sessions

Qualifications and Technical Skills

• University degree, College diploma or relevant job experience in Computer Science, Statistics or Mathematics at minimum
• 5-8 years of overall IT experience and 4+ years in Big Data technologies including Spark, Hive, Presto, etc.
• Good knowledge in Equity Markets business
• Strong knowledge of AWS cloud technology and hadoop implementation on AWS including S3, EC2 and EMR
• Experience in programming languages like python, scala, shell scripting
• Good understanding of data warehousing and data modeling techniques
• Experience in Terraform, ansible is a plus
• Experience in performance tuning for Spark jobs, Hive tables required
• Experience in Kafka is a plus
• Experience designing a technology stack for machine learning is a plus
• Experience with development using Agile methodologies

Qualities :

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Strategic thinker
• Ability to multitask
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong analysis / design experience
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Must be a self-starter with ability to follow through on projects assigned

In the market for

Excitement - Explore emerging technology and innovation, as well as ventures and digital finance that shape the future of global markets! Experience the movement of the market while grounded in the stability of close to 200 years of success.

Connection - With site hubs in some of the world's most multicultural cities, we leverage our size and structure to create rich connections and belonging while experiencing powerful global impact through our work.

Impact - More than a platform, we use our talents to power mission-critical systems that drive global economic advancement, innovation, and growth.

As well, our employee-led Team Impact spreads social good via our giving strategy.

Wellness - From empathetic leadership to a culture of flexibility and balance, we believe wellness at work creates the maximum yield and a stronger "we".

Plus, with a cloud-first and hybrid workstyle, as well as generous time-off and leaves, we support a life well lived!

Growth - From a growth mindset in our work, to expansion in our business, TMX is home to action-takers energized by the achievement of ambitious growth.