Software Developer

Position summary

Work arrangement

• The role is hybrid in Ottawa. Office or desk work is expected to exceed 90%, with possible lab or field work.
• Travel may be required, including daily travel within the greater Ottawa region.

Key responsibilities

• Build and deploy software and automated pipelines to extract, process, transform, validate, and distribute data.
• Analyze datasets and define processing rules; integrate systems using APIs, databases, files, and messaging.
• Apply integration patterns and develop data mappings, validation, quality controls, and reconciliation mechanisms.
• Protect data integrity, completeness, and traceability; apply secure development and sensitive-information handling practices.
• Participate in design reviews and Agile development; support deployment, troubleshooting, and improvement.
• Document interfaces, data mappings, and software designs; fix defects in product releases.

Minimum requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent education with relevant experience.
• At least 7 years of software development experience, including 3 years programming in Python.
• Programming experience with REST APIs; asynchronous messaging using publish/subscribe protocols or message queues; and JSON or XML.
• Programming experience using or interfacing with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with containerization such as Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.

Preferred qualifications

• Three years of C# programming experience.
• Knowledge of data integrity, consistency, validation, error handling, integration patterns, and distributed-system reliability.
• Experience with Azure Cloud Services, AVEVA PI System or AVEVA AIM, and Airflow.
• Security concepts such as encryption at rest or in transit and MFA; Agile/Scrum and CI/CD experience.
• Strong coding, unit testing, debugging, and oral and written communication skills.

Regulatory access requirement

• Applicants must be eligible or able to obtain authorization for access to controlled technical information under applicable Canadian and US export-control requirements, including eligibility for the Canadian Controlled Goods Program and ability to obtain Canadian NATO Secret clearance.

Schedule

• Full-time schedule aligned with Thales Canada core hours.

Compensation

• Reference total target compensation is CAD 95,000 to CAD 110,000 annually, inclusive of annual base salary and variable compensation target.

Benefits

• Full-time employees working 24 or more hours per week and eligible dependents may receive health, dental, savings, insurance, paid leave, employee assistance, and discount benefits.