At Equitable, we believe work should be a place where you feel supported, inspired, and empowered to grow. In our caring and collaborative environment, your curiosity is encouraged, your passion is recognized, and your contributions truly matter. Together, we create meaningful impact, for our clients, our communities, and each other.
The Opportunity: At Equitable, we believe great things happen when we work together. We’re a Canadian mutual company driven by purpose - putting people first and helping Canadians protect today and prepare for tomorrow. If you’re passionate about making a difference and growing your career in an inclusive and collaborative environment, we’d love to hear from you. Our culture is built on care, passion and curiosity. We put people above all else, strive to be our best and welcome new ideas to deliver positive outcomes.
The Senior Technology Specialist, Integration will be accountable for the solutioning of the API Management components, will manage APIM service instances and create the APIs, operations, and products that are used by developers to unlock the potential of their data and services. This role will also support the Azure Datawarehouse and associated underlying technologies.
Join one of the region’s top employers and be part of something that truly makes a difference.
Work Arrangements: This is a hybrid role. You will work in our office in Waterloo, ON a minimum of two (2) assigned, consecutive days every other week, plus a fifth (5th) assigned day per month. You are welcome to work from the office more than the minimum requirement and there may be some roles that are required to work in our office more than the minimum requirement.
What you’ll do:
- Develop, maintain and define continuous integration activities on the DevOps platform to support the development activities across the Azure space
- Determining project requirements and contributing to work schedules for the team.
- Delegating technical tasks and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals for the platform
- Liaising with team members, management, and clients to ensure projects are completed to standard.
- Identifying risks and forming contingency plans as soon as possible.
- Analyzing existing operations and scheduling training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements.
- Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and developments.
- Make recommendations for improvements to security, scalability, manageability, cost models, and performance across a wide variety of network, storage, and compute services and technologies as they relate to the APIM platform
- Building and optimizing data pipelines, data architectures and data sets.
- Design, develop and maintain automation framework for iterative software development and testing, specifically Bicep and DevOps deployment capabilities
- Develop and maintain build scripts to automate deployments for multiple environments including dev/test, QA, and production.
- Provide operational support, including participation in on-call rotation, and develop robust solutions that provide monitoring, logging and alerting capabilities.
- Participate in architecture review, reviewing technology designs and best practices.
- Coordinate bi-weekly software releases of frontend and backend services hosted on Azure
What you’ll bring:
- A bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- At least 3 years of experience in integration delivery, including API design, development, testing, security, governance, and monitoring.
- strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving and presentation skills.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Azure cloud resources, like Azure APIM, Synapse and Data factory
- Certifications in AZ-900, DP-900. AZ-400 or DP-203 are an asset
- Understanding of network, storage, server, and application technologies
- Strong troubleshooting skills across the entire technology stack – network, storage, server, and applications
- ITIL Certification is an asset
- Experience with IaC with ARM templates and biceps.
- Java, Python, PySpark, PowerShell, C#/.NET, Bash.
- Demonstrated knowledge of integration architectures, patterns, principles, and best practices.
- Experience with planning, scheduling and executing production deployments for web applications including supporting artifacts such as Database Schema migrations as well as orchestration through CI/CD Pipelines
- Experience in agile methodologies and DevOps tools.
What’s in it for you:
- Career Growth: Regular learning sessions and development opportunities
- Total Rewards: Incentive pay, annual salary reviews, employer-paid benefits and pension matching
- Time Away: Competitive vacation plus one paid volunteer day each year
- Flexibility: Healthy work-life balance with employee wellness always top of mind, complemented by a “dress for your day” approach
We’re committed to fair pay and an inclusive, accessible hiring experience. If you need accommodations or alternative formats at any stage, just reach out to us at careers@equitable.ca. We’re happy to help.
If you’re selected to move forward, our Talent Acquisition team will walk you through all the details of our total rewards program, so you know exactly what’s included. This position is open and we are excited to find the right person to join our team. Your base pay will be based on your skills, qualifications, experience and education.
At Equitable, your resume will be reviewed by real people and all hiring decisions are made by our recruiters and hiring managers. AI tools may be used to support administrative and productivity tasks throughout the recruitment process, but we believe that evaluating experience, skills, and talent potential requires meaningful human interaction.
As part of our commitment to maintaining a secure and trusted workplace, candidates selected to move forward in the recruitment process will be required to complete a background screening in accordance with company policy.
Reports To: Lead Technology Manager, Data Platforms
Department: IT Data and Analytics
Term: Permanent Full-Time
