Job Description

Description :
Company: CGL
Department: Enterprise Data Office
Employment Type: Regular Full-Time
Work Model: Hybrid
Language: Bilingualism in English and French is an asset.
Additional Information: This/these role(s) is/are currently vacant
The Opportunity:
We are a leading Canadian financial services co-operative committed to being a catalyst for a sustainable and resilient society and our team is essential to deliver on this strategy. That's why we prioritize our people, to ensure we provide a strong culture and development opportunities which enables our team to thrive and to live our purpose. The best part is that you will work with people that care passionately about you, our clients, and our communities.
Our Information Technology team aspires to be a leader in applying technology to power business strategies. We connect concepts with solutions to create value and efficiencies for our clients, employees, and communities. Our success is driven by our skilled and diverse team who are passionate about excellence, innovation, and agility.
As the Data platform engineering specialist, you will be a driving member of an integral team responsible for managing and maintaining data and analytics platforms and cloud-based services, ensuring they are secure, reliable, and efficient. You will play a key role in security, data engineering, data governance, and integration with other systems. This role also requires the ability to collaborate with key partners and to support members of your team.
How you will create impact:

• User Access Control: Manage user accounts, assign appropriate permissions, and ensure secure access to data and analytics Assign roles and permissions based on users' job functions, safeguarding sensitive data.
• System Updates: Monitor and implement software updates and patches to maintain system integrity and performance. Ensure that updates are compatible with existing applications and organizational workflows.
• Change Management: Implementation of code changes, deployments, testing and validation in production environments.
• Infrastructure as a Code: configure and implement IaaC solutions (ex: Terraform) and automate the provisioning and management of Azure resources and services such as subscriptions, resource groups, storage, Azure Databricks, and Fabric.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Configure, use and maintain continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to ensure proper deployment of data solutions.
• Documentation and Maintenance: Define and enforce a documentation system to capture the state of existing implementation, and to ensure ongoing maintenance and updates.
• Tools: Some tools or utilities might require admin rights for installation, activation, or configurations.
• Monitor the use of platforms and services for performance, reliability and cost.
• Configure and implement security and data governance policies on the platforms and services.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to drive business value.
• Effectively communicate findings to colleagues and a business audience and demonstrate influence.

To join our team:

• You have 3 years of experience in Information Technology or a related field.
• You have completed post-secondary education in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related discipline.
• You have hands-on experience with Databricks platform, and experience in writing notebooks, clusters, Spark coding.
• You have hands-on experience with Microsoft Power BI and/or Fabric.
• You have experience in Azure Cloud including Azure Active Directory, ADLS, ADF, Azure SQL, Azure Synapse, Azure Key Vault.
• You have experience developing new code, code enhancements and code debugging using Python and/or R. Have a good understanding of version control tools like Git, Bitbucket.
• You have advance knowledge of business intelligence, ETL processes, data modeling, and data warehousing architecture techniques/methodologies.
• Having experience in Terraform, PowerShell script, Linux/Unit script, is an asset.
• Having experience in Posit/RStudio platform support is an asset.
• Having experience in Informatica PowerCenter is an asset.
• Having experience with Gen AI-related technology including Azure ML and Azure OpenAI is an asset.

How you will succeed:

• You have an innovative mindset to improve operational efficiencies and ability to influence change, with a primary focus on client needs.
• You use critical thinking skills to recognize assumptions, evaluate arguments, draw conclusions and proactively propose solutions.
• You have strong communication skills to clearly convey messages and explore diverse points of view.
• You build trusting relationships and provide guidance to support the development of colleagues.

What you need to know:

• You will travel occasionally.
• Extended work hours, including evenings and weekends, may be required.
• You will be subject to a Background check as a condition of employment, in the event you are the successful candidate.

What's in it for you?

• Training and development opportunities to grow your career.
• Flexible work options and paid time off to support your personal and family needs.
• A holistic approach to your well-being, with physical and mental health programs and a supportive workplace culture.
• Paid volunteer days to give back to your community.
• In addition to our competitive salary and incentive programs, eligible employees also benefit from a comprehensive total rewards package including group retirement savings plans, pension and benefits (e.g., health and wellness, dental, disability and life coverage), mental health support and an employee assistance program.

Skills Required