Job Title: Data Engineer

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

12+ month contract

Position Description:

TEDRA (Trade Enrichment Data Reporting & Allocations) is part of the Institutional Securities Technology (IST) Division. It is responsible for maintaining, distributing, and reporting on trading, revenue, risk, and reference data (client, product, and pricing). As the authoritative source of key data sets, we are at the forefront of database technology and are heavily involved in data engineering, data science, data visualization, and machine learning efforts across the firm.

Within TEDRA, the Internal Trade and Reporting Applications (ITARA) Practice Area is responsible for systems and infrastructure that support trade data extraction/enrichment, Data-Mart creation, report generation and distribution, and high-performance business intelligence platforms for internal clients.

The ITARA Reference Data Development Team is tasked with database engineering projects and other strategic RDBMS product evaluations.

The team is looking for talented data engineers to contribute to the development of its core infrastructure components on Sybase, DB2, and MSSQL database plants, as well as new database platforms such as MongoDB, Snowflake, and Azure SQL.

The successful candidate must be passionate about data and have a robust interest and experience in RDBMS technologies, including enterprise-scale,



real-time, highly accessed transactional databases and replication systems.

This position offers an opportunity to participate in lively discussion on technical and business issues, meaning that strong communication skills and willingness to express their own views as well as listen to others are vital.

The tasks will include performance optimization, testing, database engineering, platform migration, version upgrades, development, and distribution on cloud platforms. The person joining the team must be able to operate in a fast-paced Agile environment where time to market is a key requirement without compromising on the quality and resiliency of the application.

Qualifications

Required skills:

- At least 3 years of relevant experience
- Knowledge (intermediate level) of development and performance optimization on major RDBMS and NoSQ (MongoDB) technologies
- Scripting knowledge (Python)
- Basic knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems
- Excellent communication skills.

Nice to have

- Data modeling concepts.
- Version control, preferably with GIT.
- Knowledge of ETL products such as Talend or Informatica.
- Replication
- Agile practices
- Experience working in geographically dispersed teams.
- Other personal skills: integrity & ownership, good team player, high degree of motivation to expand technical and business knowledge.

📌 Data Engineer (Montreal)
🏢 Gala Solutions
📍 Montreal