Senior Data Engineer

The Wissen team continues to expand its footprint in the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, and India. More openings to come as we continue to grow the team!

Please read below for a brilliant career opportunity.

Title: AVP/VP

Location:
Montreal, QC (day 1 onboarding onsite / in-office presence required 3x/week)

Mode of Work: 3 days/week onsite required

Required Experience: 6-12 years

• Want to be part of cutting edge, high visibility projects and are motivated by delivering world-class solutions on an aggressive schedule
• Someone who is not intimidated by challenges; thrives under pressure; is passionate about their craft and focused on delivering exceptional results
• Enjoy learning new technologies and raise the bar on your team
• Enjoy working with technical and non-technical stakeholders for delivery of software systems
• Enjoy working with and managing junior developers

• Collaborating and leading part of a cross-functional Agile team to create and enhance software for data ingestion and entity resolution platform
• Expertise in application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• Working with large, complex data sets from a variety of sources
• Participate in the rapid development of user-driven prototypes to identify technical options and inform multiple architectural approaches
• Building efficient storage and search functions over structured and unstructured data
• Utilizing programming languages Python, Java, Scala, Relational and No
  
  SQL databases
• Learning newer technologies for entity resolution such as Quantexa platform

• Proven track record of a minimum of 6 years in management, in a space with strong focus on large scale data processing and instrumentation
• Strong coding background, ideally in Java/ Python / Scala
• Experience in at least one big data product:
  Databricks, Elasticsearch, Snowflake
• Experience building batch / real time data pipelines for production systems
• Experience with Relational and Non-Relational DBs like DB2, MongoDB
• Experience with various data formats:
  Parquet, CSV, JSON, XML, Relational Data
• Strong familiarity with Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, Iceberg, Airflow, Data Modeling, relational databases, columnar databases
• Previous working experience in large scale distributed systems
• Strong familiarity with software engineering principles, including object-oriented and functional programming paradigms, design patterns, and code quality practices
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

• Experience with Rest based applications
• Experience with Databricks/ Delta Lake
• Experience with client reference data sourcing from vendors
• Healthcare insurance for you and your family (medical, dental, vision).
• Short / Long term disability insurance.
• Life Insurance.
• Accidental death & disability Insurance.
• 3 weeks of Paid Time Off.
• Support and fee coverage for immigration needs.
• Remote office set up stipend.
• Support for industry certifications.
• Additional cash incentives.
• Re-skilling opportunities to transition between technologies.

Schedule: Monday to Friday

Work Mode: Hybrid

Job Type: Full-time

We are: A high end technical consulting firm built and run by highly qualified technologists. Our workforce consists of 5000+ highly skilled professionals, with leadership from Wharton, MIT, IITs, IIMs, and NITs and decades of experience at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, MSCI, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Verizon, British Telecom, ISRO etc. Without any external funding or investments, Wissen Technology has grown its revenues by 100% every other year since it started as a subsidiary of Wissen Group in 2015.

We have a global presence with offices in the US, India, UK, Australia, Mexico, and Canada.

You are: A true tech or domain ninja. Or both. Comfortable working in a quickly growing profitable startup, have a “can do” attitude and are willing to take on any task thrown your way.

• Develop and promote the company’s culture of engineering excellence.
• Define, develop and deliver solutions at a top tier investment bank or another esteemed client.
• Perform other duties…