Senior Data Bricks​/Scala​/Spark Engineering Specialist - Inc;

Job Title

Senior Data Bricks/Scala/Spark Engineering Specialist

Montreal, QC (Onsite)

Contract

12 months

We're migrating complex on‑prem regulatory reporting pipelines from a legacy ETL + Autosys + SQL + Teradata stack to a modern Databricks + Snowflake platform on Azure. The role is hands‑on: design, implement, test, and reconcile production pipelines feeding regulatory reports under strict parity requirements.

• Scala / Spark — production experience writing Spark applications in Scala, comfortable with Data Frame API, joins, window functions, partitioning, performance tuning
• Databricks — Serverless compute, Unity Catalog, Asset Bundles, Databricks CLI
• SQL fluency — comfortable writing, analyzing and extracting requirements from complex SQL scripts
• Snowflake — schema design, performance, Spark‑Snowflake connector
• Azure — ADLS, networking basics, secrets/identity (Entra  / managed identities)
• Orchestration — Airflow (DAG authoring, sensors, retries, SLAs)
• CI/CD — Artifactory, Git Hub Actions pipelines: build, sharded test matrices, artifact promotion through dev → QA → UAT → prod
• Testing — experience in TDD, writing unit tests (Scala Test, Any Flat Spec ) and BDD (Concordion or equivalent)
• Data quality & reconciliation — building automated parity checks against legacy outputs, drift detection, row‑level reconciliation tooling
• Large‑scale migrations — proven track record migrating legacy ETL (Autosys/Informatica/etc.) to cloud data platforms, including dependency mapping and cutover planning
• Modern data engineering practices — medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold), idempotent pipelines, schema evolution, lineage, observability

• Financial services / regulatory reporting domain
• Python (Databricks utilities, tooling)
• Spec‑driven development workflows (specs → plans → tasks → implementation)
• Gradle (composite builds) and JVM tooling

EEO, ADA, FMLA compliant.

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