Are you looking to do your life’s work and excel at something you're passionate about? At Assent Compliance we understand that opportunities are all around us, everyday, in some of the most unique scenarios. Finding the one that excites and interests you is something we take very seriously. Enabling our staff to be inspired by one another and building a team of like minded individuals who remain smart, curious and passionate is in our mission and Assent DNA. We believe in working hard, staying humble and letting our success do all the talking. Welcome to an opportunity that will give you the pathway to do your life's work in a meaningful way, with supported growth and the encouragement to inspire, and be inspired, by those around you on a daily basis.
The Cloud Data Architect plays a critical role in implementing our product strategy as the leader in data collection, management and assessment of supply chain data. In this key role, you will help solve complex data security and privacy issues, oversee the architecture and strategy of new data projects from analytics to search, and use your exceptional cloud skills to enable a worldwide and highly available SaaS product in a micro-services architecture. You’re a strategist and have a passion for aligning technical leaders and developers to drive the design and implementation of a data architecture that solves immediate business challenges, while enabling future innovation and growth.
This role is open to candidates, preferably in Ottawa, Toronto or Montreal. Other locations may be considered.
You’ll have the opportunity to:
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization and the rest of the software architecture team to understand business priorities and identify the needs of an evolving, scalable and secure data architecture
- Craft, articulate and promote our Cloud data strategy our as part of our overall software architecture for the delivery of data-centric SaaS products that are reliable and performant
- Provide leadership to the development team, applying your thorough understanding of business needs as well your deep technical knowledge and experience, to drive design and implementation decisions that align with the overall data architecture vision and facilitate velocity across the teams
- Foster a culture of collaboration and innovation, where difficult data challenges are tackled eagerly with a focus on measurable outcomes
- Demonstrate and promote excellence in practices by documenting architecture design goals, best practices and decisions, as well as existing and new data interfaces, data flows and data models
- Analyze and measure existing system’s design, performance, and/or implementation issues and work on these puzzles to resolve issues
Does this sound like you:
- A Bachelor's degree required in computer/software engineering or related technical discipline.
- At least 7 years of experience in senior database design and development roles
- Proven track record of designing data solutions for large, SaaS product solutions in the Cloud
- Excellent communication skills with a keen ability to convey complex ideas and drive deep understanding among various audiences
- Extensive experience in data architecture, including physical and logical database design
- Expert knowledge of MS SQL Server or other RDBMS tools
- Highly proficient with, and the ability to stay current, on all aspects of designing and developing data management solutions, including;data sharding, synchronization, replication and change data capture techniques, database batch processing, data modeling (including indexes, partitions), and database performance tuning (SQL Server, Oracle or DB2)
- Knowledge of AWS data technologies for graph, document or time-series data would be an asset
- Strong Agile development experience
- Are a true team player, and see collaboration and feedback as a means to innovate and accelerate greatness
How does this benefit you?
At Assent, our goal is to provide more value to our employees than we capture ourselves. As the leading global compliance software provider, we continue to offer an ambitious, fast-paced and welcoming work environment allowing our staff to thrive in all areas of their personal and career development.
In addition to a competitive salary, a benefits plan that starts the same day you do, and an optional on-site work location (in Ottawa), you can expect to:
- Love what you do as part of a supportive team with a supportive and welcoming work culture
- Advance your career in a position with high growth potential
- Choose how you work best in a flexible work environment
- Help create positive change by being part of a sustainable work environment with lots of opportunities to help the community through our charitable work
At Assent, your contribution and presence has purpose. Our team continues to challenge each other everyday so we can grow and learn together;we dig deep to build a culture of innovation, support and high performance for our people and our clients.