Senior Data-Focused Software Developer

About Info-Tech Research Group

Info-Tech Research Group delivers impartial, highly pertinent IT research, enabling CIOs and IT leaders to make well-informed, strategic decisions. We are currently serving over 30,000 professionals and collaborate closely with IT teams, equipping them with actionable tools and expert guidance to drive measurable results and enhance technology initiatives and organizational processes.

Why Join Us?

• We pride ourselves on consistent year-on-year growth, with double-digit growth even during a global pandemic.
• We are in the Top 3 on LinkedIn's Top Companies List in Canada.
• Info-Tech fosters a growth-focused, entrepreneurial culture with unlimited opportunities for professional growth and development.
• We provide financial support for professional development and training.

About The Senior Data-Focused Software Developer Role

We’re looking for a seasoned Senior Data Engineer. Experience with MS-Fabric and PowerBI is mandatory. Additional experience with the following is preferred: Azure/OpenAI, Ruby on Rails, Python, MySQL, JS, MS-Fabric, PowerBI and Azure/OpenAI services.

Your Responsibilities As A Senior Data-Focused Software Developer

• Create and maintain data structures and ETL in MS-Fabric.
• Produce queries and data output from MS-Fabric using SQL and Power BI.
• Produce chart output from Power BI.
• Analyze requirements and decide the best ways to meet or even rework them; unique and innovative ideas are welcome.
• Be proactive by finding and addressing areas of technical concern.
• Mentor your peers and contribute to code reviews, and be mentored if something is new to you.
• Collaborate across teams to continually improve our processes.
• Promote the use of design patterns and best practices.
• Contribute to Agile ceremonies for prioritizing, understanding, and estimating.
• Support the growth of our Agile practices through Retrospectives.

Why You Should Join Info-Tech Research Group

• Work with like-minded individuals in a work-hard/play-hard culture.
• Continued learning is a major part of our best-practice-driven environment. We support our teams with a substantial budget for training and career development.
• Work-life balance is important to us: after-hours and weekend work are rare to non-existent.
• You will work in a highly collaborative team that functions efficiently even in a remote work setting. You will have flexibility to work from home, at one of our unique offices in London (Ontario) or Toronto, or in a hybrid mode.
• We offer great competitive salaries, benefits plan, and RRSP matching plans.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of experience in a professional software development role, with at least 1 year focused on data engineering.
• Comfortable developing in an Agile product development framework.

Must Have Skills

• Experience with MS-Fabric and PowerBI.
• Ability to design, develop, and deploy data-related solutions, with seamless integration into existing architecture, and to support those solutions after deployment.
• Experience with SQL authoring and optimization.
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies and version control systems.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Ability to communicate technical details and build functional requirements.
• Experience with source control software.
• Ability to maintain focus on priority, and deliver solutions appropriate to requirements.

Nice to Have

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a professional software development role, with at least 3 years focused on data engineering.
• Experience building and maintaining applications in Ruby on Rails, or with a similar MVC framework such as Laravel or NETMVC.
• Experience building systems or services in Python.
• Experience building user interfaces in HTML, CSS, JS, and JS frameworks.
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies.
• Experience with Salesforce integration.
• Exposure to AWS tools and services.

Language Skills

Bilingual proficiency in French, Spanish or German is preferred to support our diverse client base across North America and globally. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick all the boxes! Info-Tech Research Group of companies is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected status or characteristic including Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Disability/Veteran and are pleased to consider all qualified applicants. To that end, upon request, ITRG will ensure, to the extent possible, that accommodation be made available to applicants throughout the recruitment and hiring process.

Key skills/competency

• MS-Fabric
• PowerBI
• Data Engineering
• ETL
• SQL
• Agile Development
• Problem Solving
• Ruby on Rails
• Python
• Azure/OpenAI