Data Architect with Airflow Astronomer

We are

At Synechron we believe in the power of digital to transform businesses for the better. Our global consulting firm combines creativity and innovative technology to deliver industry-leading digital solutions. Synechrons progressive technologies and optimization strategies span end-to-end Artificial Intelligence Consulting Digital Cloud & DevOps Data and Software Engineering servicing an array of noteworthy financial services and technology firms. Through research and development initiatives in our FinLabs we develop solutions for modernization from Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain to Data Science models Digital Underwriting mobile-first applications and more. Over the last 20 years our company has been honored with multiple employer awards recognizing our commitment to our talented teams. With top clients to boast about Synechron has a global workforce of 14500 and has 58 offices in 21 countries within key global markets.

Our challenge

The Solutions Architect specializing in Cloud Orchestration will work with a small group of technologists and become a trusted advisor delivering technical solutions leveraging Apache Airflow hosted on the Astronomer this role candidate will engineer a wide range of use cases where Apache Airflow sits at the center of the solution with the goal of rapidly developing solutions for the use cases. Help guide a small group of technologists in their Apache Airflow journeys including identifying new use cases and onboarding new domain teams.

Additional Information*

The base salary for this position will vary based on geography and other accordance with law the base salary for this role if filled within Mississauga ON is CAD $120k CAD $140k/year & benefits (see below).

The Role

Responsibilities:

• Review optimize and tune data ingestion and extraction pipelines orchestrated by Airflow.
• Development of frameworks to manage and engineer a large number of pipelines for the entire domain.
• Build architecture data flow and operational diagrams and documents with detailed physical and logical layers.
• Provide reference implementations of various activities including composing data pipelines in Airflow implementing new Airflow features or integrating Airflow with 3rd party solutions.
• Keep up with the latest Astro and Airflow features in order to better advise the technologies on impactful improvements they can make.
• Collaborate to build reusable assets automation tools and documented best practices.
• Interact with Domain and Engineering teams to channel product feedback and requirements discussions.
• Work with technology team members to ensure that are realizing value in their Airflow and Astronomer journeys.

Requirements:

• 10 years of Data Architect with Airflow / Astronomer.
• Experience with Apache Airflow in production environments.
• Experience in designing and implementing ETL Data Warehousing and ML/AI use cases.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Knowledge of Azure cloud-native data architecture.
• Demonstrated technical leadership on team projects.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and build reference implementations.
• Experience in migrating workflows from legacy schedulers (Tidal) to Apache Airflow.
• Experience in integrating with Azure Data Factory pipelines.
• Snowflake and Databricks experience.
• Experience working with containers.
• SQL experience.
• Kubernetes experience either on-premise or in the cloud.
• Enterprise data experience in regulated environments.

Preferred but not required:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Data Engineering or related field.
• Prior experience working in financial services investment banking or related domains.
• Certifications related to cloud platforms (Azure AWS).

We offer:

• A multinational organization with 58 offices in 21 countries and the possibility to work abroad.
• 15 days (3 weeks) of paid annual leave plus an additional 10 days of personal leave(floating days and sick days).
• A comprehensive insurance plan including medical dental vision life insurance and long-term disability.
• Flexible hybrid policy.
• RRSP with employers contribution up to 4%.
• A higher education certification policy.
• On-demand Udemy for Business for all Synechron employees with free access to more than 5000 curated courses.
• Coaching opportunities with experienced colleagues from our Financial Innovation Labs (FinLabs) and Center of Excellences (CoE) groups.
• Cutting edge projects at the worlds leading tier-one banks financial institutions and insurance firms.
• A truly diverse fun-loving and global work culture.

SYNECHRONS DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiative Same Difference is committed to fostering an inclusive culture promoting equality diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds race ethnicities religion age marital status gender sexual orientations or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements mentoring internal mobility learning and development programs and more.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to the applicants gender gender identity sexual orientation race ethnicity disabled or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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