Applications Programmer/Developer

Job description

The Astek Group

Founded in France in 1988, Astek is a global player in engineering and technology consulting. With its expertise in various industrial and tertiary sectors, Astek supports its international clients in the intelligent deployment of their products and services, as well as in the implementation of their digital transformation.

Since its inception, the Group has based its development on a strong culture of entrepreneurship and innovation, and on the support and upskilling of its 7800 employees who are committed every day to promoting the complementarity between digital technologies and complex system engineering.

In Canada, the firm specializes in IT consulting services and engineering. Our teams successfully drive our clients’ development strategies. Around common values, we have gained their trust and address their business challenges by putting their needs at the center of our actions and priorities.

This ecosystem of expertise enables Astek Canada to adapt quickly to evolving technologies, and all employees participate collaboratively in their development.

Are you ready to take on a new challenge, give your career a boost, and participate in innovative and stimulating projects?

Join a rapidly growing Group in Canada and worldwide that achieved a turnover of €600 million in 2023.

Your mission would be:

• Responsible for leading technical aspects of project from inception through to deployment.
• Participate in analysis and system design specification sessions.
• Documentation of design options and solutions according to System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology.
• Ensure that solutions adhere to development best practices and architectural principles.
• Apply analytical skills to resolve problems and deliver viable solutions.
• Anticipate obstacles and execute proactive approaches to issues.
• Active participation in issue resolution.
• Provide detailed development estimates to Project Manager for development effort as well as weekly status reporting and budget forecasting.
• Configuration management for the sub projects within the release.
• Responsible for coding, testing, packaging, deployment, and support of builds as code is promoted from development, system, acceptance and production environments.
• May lead code reviews.
• Work closely with System Test Environment Management Team (STEMT) to ensure that environments are fully functional and that builds are properly deployed.
• Participate in development of test strategy, test plans, test cases and testing efforts (unit testing and integration testing of code).
• Provide technical support to business and testing team during testing phases.
• Track defects, defect triage and resolution.
• Data set up and environment shake down.
• Coaching / mentoring of junior developers.
• Knowledge transfer within group.
• Ensure required documentation is housed in the project repository and that knowledge transfer has occurred to full time staff upon completion of contract term.

Your profile:

• Technical knowledge or experience with Cloud environments (MS Azure) as well as experience with Data Management and Analytics.
• Strong technical knowledge and experience with: PySpark, SQL and Tableau.
• Experience with analyzing large data sets, drawing insights and inferences, and communicating outputs.
• Experienced with Data/Text Mining, Optimization, Algorithm Development, Automation, Data Visualization, Simulation.
• Reading and comprehending data schemas, metadata, entity relationship diagrams and other technical documentation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with the ability to work collaboratively and effectively in a team environment.
• Strong statistical and analytical skills as well as a passion for analytics are necessary.
• Databricks experience.
• Synapse experience.
• Experience presenting in front of big crowds/senior leadership is a plus.
• Banking experience will be considered an asset.
• Project Management experience will be considered an asset.

Let’s meet!
Do you like our common project?
Apply here and join our team!

Our Advantages
• A tailored CARE policy deployed by our HR teams for our employees.
• Our Diversity Charter.