Développeur Cloud Big Data (Senior)

As Big Data Cloud Expert, you are part of a global central team distributed between Montréal and Paris, with multiple responsibilities related to our Data Lake platform on Microsoft Azure cloud. Member of the team, you are the main point of contact for AMER region projects, in front of the teams using the platform for various business lines.

Your future duties and responsibilities

That Data Lake platform is leveraging various Open-Source technologies, such as Spark or Kafka, but also leverage on Azure specific technologies, as Azure Storage, HDInsight, Synapse, Fabric, AKS, etc.

• The platform is self-service, with as much automation as possible, with strong requirements on security due to our regulated environment, with also stability in mind for critical business processes.
• You’ll participate to the design of the evolution of the platform ad project transformation, implementation and production support as well. You’ll also provide your expertise to projects onboarding on the platform.
• Your Big Data skills are as important as your Azure skills in that context, along with good understanding of performance and security concepts.
  
  

For your role, you will oversee the following missions:

• Identify future needs and improvements, design the solutions to be validated with the rest of the team
• Test and evaluate new Azure technologies, work with security team and Microsoft teams to make them available in our secured environment
• Participate to the implementation of the solution, build automation and monitoring for a stable self-service offer
• Provide trainings on data state-of-art
• Help data project teams to onboard and transform on/in Azure
• Train other members of the team and advise other teams on the implementation of their Big Data projects
• Participate to the production support, with overtime when necessary, and communication on incidents with our AMER users.
• It’s a wide role with covering many topics, and great opportunity to learn new things.
  
  

Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role

Technical stack

JAVA | AZURE | SPARK | AKS - KUBERNETES | FABRIC

Must Have:

• 5+ years of development and architecture experience with Java, building multi-threaded applications, APIs
• Very good experience utilizing Big Data technologies, such as Hadoop, Kafka and/or Azure Kubernetes Service, OpenTable formats like Delta or Iceberg
• Good experience on Microsoft Azure cloud technologies, such as Azure Storage, Azure Synapse, Azure AI search
• Good experience using Apache Spark
• Previous experience with Oracle SQL or PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS background
  
  

Nice to Have:

• Good working knowledge of the following:
• Terraform
• PowerShell / Bash
• Experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery using modern DevOps tools and workflows such as git, GitHub, Jira, Docker, and Jenkins
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, DEC, or equivalent technical Certifications
• Languages: French and English* are required.
• Ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing, is a requirement as the person in this position will need to collaborate regularly with colleagues and partners in the United States.
  
  

Loc: Montreal

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