Lead Python Developer, OpenText
Office located in Richmond Hill, ON
Information management for enterprises
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Information management for enterprises
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Office located in Richmond Hill, ON
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable intelligent and connected enterprises by managing, leveraging, securing and gaining insight into enterprise information, on-premises or in the cloud.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 8+ years of experience in software development, with at least 5 years of Python expertise focused on data pipelines and quality
- Education: A degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
- Software Architecture & Python: Expert-level developer with a strong focus on clean architecture, design patterns, and rigorous testing (unit, integration, etc.). Proficient with Python’s ecosystem, particularly ML and AI libraries
- Database & Schema Design: Strong experience working with complex databases, including planning, evolving, and maintaining database schemas
- Data Pipelines & Optimization: Proven ability to build, debug, and optimize complex pipelines processing huge volumes of diverse data. Capable of pinpointing and resolving bottlenecks to ensure maximum performance with minimal resource consumption
- AppSec & SCA: Basic knowledge of and a strong interest in Application Security (AppSec) and Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
- Leadership: Experience acting as a lead developer, coaching junior team members, leading subprojects, and taking ownership of technical decisions
- Collaboration: Comfortable working in a distributed team and collaborating effectively across different time zones
Desirable
- AI & Prototyping: Ability to quickly build high-quality AI/LLM POCs and scale them into production while balancing business value against operational and API costs
- DevOps & CI/CD: Hands-on experience with Kubernetes deployment/maintenance and automated CI/CD pipelines
- Knowledge of diverse datastores like Elasticsearch and Neo4j
- Experience working with GCP or other major cloud platforms
What the job involves
- Hiring Manager: Frans van Buul
- As a Lead Python Developer in the OpenText SCA data science team, you will work on enhancing data intake processes and optimizing data pipelines. You will apply many different approaches, depending on the needs of the product and the challenges you encounter
- In some cases, we use AI/LLM techniques and we expect the number of such cases to increase Your contributions will directly impact OpenText SCA's scope and quality and will help ensure future commercial growth of the product
- Innovative Data Solutions: Develop and optimize data pipelines that improve the efficiency, accuracy, and automation of the OpenText SCA’s data intake processes
- Collaborative Environment: Work closely with developers and product managers from Sweden and India to create impactful, data-driven solutions
- Continuous Improvement: Play an essential role in maintaining and improving the data quality that powers OpenText SCA analysis, improving the product’s competitiveness. We expect the Lead developer to be innovative and propose new methods and techniques
- Skill Development: Collaborate across teams and leverage OpenText’s resources (including an educational budget) to develop your expertise in data science and AI, expanding your skill set in both traditional and cutting-edge technologies
Our take
Founded in 1991, OpenText has spent more than three decades quietly becoming one of the world's most important players in enterprise information management, Its software helps some of the largest companies, governments and professional services firms tame the vast volumes of unstructured data that modern organisations generate every day.
Rather than standing still, OpenText has consistently evolved with the market. And in 2023, it pushed into the AI era with the launch of OpenText Aviator, a generative AI platform designed to power business networks and streamline IT operations, signalling that the company very much intends to stay relevant as enterprise technology shifts.
This momentum shows no signs of slowing down either. Alongside steady internal innovation, OpenText continues to grow through strategic acquisitions. And the company's culture seems to be keeping pace as well, having recently been named one of Forbes' World's Best Employers, recognized as one of Canada's Top Employers for Young People, and included in TIME's life of the World's BEst Companies, a huge endorsement that its long-term success is being built on more than just software.
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Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Waterloo, ON
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