Senior Data Bricks/Scala/Spark Engineering Specialist (Markham)

Company Profile:

VLink, founded in 2006, is a leading global provider of software engineering services with next-gen technologies and best-in-class talent. Our Headquarters are in the U.S, and we have offices in 7+ countries from North America-Europe to APAC, with expansion plans in the Middle East. With over 1,000 employees working globally, VLink has helped SMBs, and large enterprises achieve their business goals, and gained the trust of Fortune-250 companies. VLink is 'Great Place to Work? Certified' and has been a consistent winner as-Best Places to Work in CT. Trust, collaboration, and accountability are the three elements that are at the core of VLink's work culture. We value our professionals, providing comprehensive perks and the opportunity for growth.

Job Title: Senior Data Bricks/Scala/Spark Engineering Specialist

Location: Montreal, QC (Onsite)

Employment Type: Contract

Duration: 12 Months

Job Description

We're migrating complex on-prem regulatory reporting pipelines from a legacy ETL + Autosys + SQL + Teradata stack to a modern Databricks + Snowflake platform on Azure. The role is hands-on: design, implement, test, and reconcile production pipelines feeding regulatory reports under strict parity requirements.

Must-have

• Scala / Spark — production experience writing Spark applications in Scala (not just notebooks); comfortable with the DataFrame API, joins, window functions, partitioning, and performance tuning
• Databricks — Serverless compute, Unity Catalog, Asset Bundles, Databricks CLI
• SQL fluency — comfortable writing, analyzing and extracting requirements from complex SQL scripts
• Snowflake — schema design, performance, Spark-Snowflake connector
• Azure — ADLS, networking basics, secrets/identity (Entra ID / managed identities)
• Orchestration — Airflow (DAG authoring, sensors, retries, SLAs)
• CI/CD — Artifactory, GitHub Actions pipelines: build, sharded test matrices, artifact promotion through dev -> QA -> UAT -> prod
• Testing — Experience in TDD, writing unit tests (ScalaTest, AnyFlatSpec) and BDD (Concordion or equivalent)
• Data quality & reconciliation — building automated parity checks against legacy outputs, drift detection, row-level reconciliation tooling
• Large-scale migrations — proven track record migrating legacy ETL (Autosys/Informatica/etc.) to cloud data platforms, including dependency mapping and cutover planning
• Contemporary data engineering practices — medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold), idempotent pipelines, schema evolution, lineage, observability

Nice-to-have

• Financial services / regulatory reporting domain
• Python (Databricks utilities, tooling)
• Spec-driven development workflows (specs -> plans -> tasks -> implementation)
• Gradle (composite builds) and JVM tooling

Employment Practices

EEO, ADA, FMLA Compliant

VLink is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check. Applicant information will be handled in accordance with VLink's privacy policy.