Sr. Cloud/Data Migration Engineer to migrate our financial client's Capital Market Assets to Snowflake and Azure - 6485

Duration: 6 months to start (high likelihood of extension)

Location: Hybrid (3x/week) - Downtown Toronto

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop a Data and Cloud migration framework that accelerates the migration of the CMIA (Capital Market Investment Assets) team’s assets to Snowflake Data and Azure Cloud platforms
• Assist with the migration of the CMIA team’s assets to Cloud platforms
• Maintain and improve the team's software solutions and infrastructure which runs all aspects of the team's systematic investment process including trading, execution and research.
• Contribute to the CMIA team’s continuous improvement process and help to develop software and data engineering best practices and standards particularly with respect to deployment and management of assets to Data and Cloud platforms
• Develop new solutions and enhance existing solutions in support of the Capital Markets investment desks that the CMIA team supports.
• Responsible for completion of an acceptable volume of work and for the communication of status of personal work plans and tasks required to design, develop, and test assigned projects. Actively participate in the team’s agile ceremonies and work planning processes.
• Responsible for maintaining currency in technological trends and directions continually upgrading personal technical and IT skills through research, education and self-motivated technology experimentation.
• Participate in new technology investigation and make recommendations for new technology adoption where appropriate.

Must haves:

• 8+ years of Software Development experience
• 5+ years of experience as a Cloud Engineer/Data Engineer
• Experience with containerization (Kubernetes/Docker), Azure, Python, React, Snowflake
• Experience migrating Data and Data Engineering assets to cloud platforms (ex. migrate data/databases to Snowflake and migrate Python analytic scripts to Azure AK
• Financial Services experience

Nice to haves:

• Previous experience in Capital Markets
• Completion of the Canadian Securities Course and/or CFA candidacy is an asset.
• Experience with common financial data providers is an asset (ex. Bloomberg, Refinitiv, S&P Xpressfeed).
• Experience migrating web applications to cloud platforms (ex. migrate React/Django web applications to Azure/AKS)