Python Developer – SQL/ SAS

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Location: Hybrid | Downtown, Toronto

Duration: 4.5 Months 

Our client, a leading financial institution in Downtown Toronto, is looking for a Python Developer – SQL/ SAS to Provide stakeholders with precise communication, artifacts, and clarification as pertains to month-end support, user requests, issues, and deliverables. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with one of the Top 5 Banks in Canada.

Typical Day in role:

• Be a self-starter to independently resolve, investigate, and analyze requests, issues, and deliverables.
• Support application month-end and quarter-end batch processing end-to-end including monitoring and investigation related to risk model calculations and Capital/Regulatory reporting.
• Lead discussions with business and technology partners for changes as the application SME and solution for enhancement/ bug fixes.
• Coordinate with upstream and downstream operational teams to ensure issues and operational changes are properly communicated to stakeholders.
• Provide stakeholders with precise communication, artifacts, and clarification as pertains to month-end support, user requests, issues, and deliverables.
• Proactively learn about application, IT processes, and research on new technology.
• Augment/ produce documentation and artifacts.
• Back-end development
• Tech Stack: Linux, Python, SQL

Must Have Skills:

• 5+ years of experience as a developer
• 2+ years SQL experience (running queries+ development + optimization + data modelling/mining)
• 5+ years’ development experience with Python
• 3+ years’ experience with Database Systems: Hive/Hadoop/MINIO, DB2 and SQL Server
• Experience with SAS, Informatica, DataStage
• Experience with Bitbucket/Git

Nice-To-Have Skills:

•  QA Testing experience be able to ensure testing coverage for new requirements and changes.

Soft Skills Required:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Candidate is expected to interact on an ongoing basis with various teams to gather requirements, document and analyze issues, present findings and formulate solutions. The candidate is also expected to write technical and business requirements, user guides, operational documentation, etc.
• Critical thinking skills. Ability to Investigate, analyze, and resolve complex problems and think outside of the box to resolve issues, and propose solutions.
• Strong collaboration skills required as this role works with cross-functional teams.
• Strong data analytic skillset is a must, combined with SQL for the purpose of data solutioning, testing/validation and gap analysis.
• Self starter, and passion for driving teams towards high performance and a deep pride in providing high quality results.
• Detail oriented, methodical and has ability to translate business ideas into automated solutions.
• Effective organizational skills, with working knowledge of project planning and project management to assume end-to-end ownership of a project and responsibility for the related project deliverables.

Education:

• Bachelor’s in technical field

FP Inc. is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. In accordance with the requirements set out in the Employment Standards Act, FP Inc. hereby declares that AI is utilized in the screening process for this position. The hourly compensation range for this role is $60/hr -$75/hr. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities, and we provide an accessible candidate experience. We advocate for you and welcome anyone regardless of race, colour, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, or age.