Job Title: Regulatory/Financial Reporting Developer (Databricks, Snowflake, Axiom)

Years of experience: 3-8

Duration: 12+ months contract

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

Position Description:

The team develops applications to provide services for ***’s Regulatory Reporting groups to report and file key disclosures to regulatory bodies across the globe.

These applications include highly flexible and scalable Java services, large-scale computational processing of datasets, warehouse reporting, and the Axiom regulatory reporting tool. The technology team practices agile development and uses a multitude of languages, including Java, Python, SQL, etc. The team is working on a front-to-back initiative to re-platform and renovate key streams of data.

It addresses regulatory and audit findings thematically, providing an efficient framework for better control and reporting over time.

The objectives of the projects include:

Consolidate data sourcing, integration, and verification across control functions to ensure consistent, controlled, and auditable outputs.

Onboard and configure Axiom solution templates for regulatory reports (e.g., 14A DFAST, SEC FOCUS, Brazil DLO, SPED), including mapping, validation, and deployment support.

Analyze platform hygiene and DevOps gaps and define a prioritized remediation plan (standards, CI/CD, monitoring, and environment controls).

Implement and optimize business logic and data transformations using Scala/Spark (with testing and performance considerations).

Build and maintain Power BI dashboards and KPIs (data quality, reconciliations, SLA/operational metrics) with reliable refreshes.





You will be expected to work as a member of the development team and participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle, with automated testing, tools, and shared library development. The ideal candidate will possess solid technical and problem-solving skills as well as the drive to learn more about the business and new technologies. Candidates should be open to working from front to back on applications and must have a sound grasp of development best practices and system architecture.

You will be expected to drive standardization and architecture discussion across the team and be responsible for high-quality implementations. Expertise in any one of the following business domains would be preferable: regulatory, accounting, finance, and control functions. This position requires working closely with the local/global project manager, colleagues, and internal clients within Finance.

The candidate will be involved in all stages of the development life cycle, from requirements gathering to post-release and ongoing L3 support as an escalation point.

Required Skills:

2+ years in a regulatory reporting tool Axiom or Suade

3+ years of software development experience in Scala/Spark (Java)

Database experience such as SQL, RDBMS platforms like Snowflake DB (preferred), and Postgres

Python Scripting

Experience incorporating AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude) with an engineering approach

Experience with Power BI

Bachelor's or related field experience

Desired Skills:

Knowledge of Unix commands/shell scripting

Knowledge of the job automation/scheduling concept with Autosys or Apache Airflow

Knowledge of CI/CD methodology

Experience with Azure cloud technologies such as Databricks

Experience working in an agile team with a focus on continued integration and automated testing.

Practical experience delivering AI-enabled use cases (not just experimental)

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