Lead Data Engineer, Secret II Clearance

Quantexa

full-time

Posted on: 9/20/2025

Origin: • 🇨🇦 Canada

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About the role

Lead, support, and mentor a team of junior data engineers within an agile framework
Write defensive, fault tolerant and efficient code for production level data processing systems
Configure and deploy Quantexa’s software using Spark, Hadoop, Scala, Elasticsearch on private and public clouds (Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, AWS)
Manage, transform, and cleanse high-volume data to solve business problems across fraud, financial crime, data management, risk and customer intelligence
Engage with business teams and clients to break down requirements into technical tasks
Work hands-on as a programmer while supporting other engineers
Articulate technical concepts to non-technical audiences to aid decision-making
Collaborate with solution architects and R&D engineers to champion solutions, promote knowledge sharing and ensure best practices

At least five years of industry experience in a data engineering role or engineering equivalent
At least 2 years of experience acting in a lead role within a data or software engineering team
Proficiency in Scala, Java, Python, or a programming language associated with data engineering (primary language Scala)
Expertise building and deploying production level data processing batch systems maintained by application support teams
Appreciation of operationally stable systems and ability to streamline development, release, and operations
Experience with modern development tooling (e.g. Git, Gradle, Nexus)
Experience with DevOps and automation tools (e.g. Jenkins, Docker) and Bash scripting
Familiarity with version-controlled development processes
Strong technical communication ability with demonstrable experience of working in rapidly changing client environments
Knowledge of testing libraries (such as ScalaTest) and understanding of different test types (unit, integration) with examples
Valid Secret-level government security clearance (current or within the past 12 months) mandatory
Authorization to work for any employer in Canada
Nice to have: experience mentoring and up-skilling team members or acting as a technical line manager
Nice to have: passion for expanding the business and leading initiatives