Senior Software Engineer

The Ontario Cannabis Store provides safe, responsible access to recreational cannabis for adults 19 and older. We operate the sole legal online store for recreational cannabis in Ontario and are the provincial wholesaler of cannabis for private retail stores.

Working at the OCS is a unique opportunity to be part of an agile start-up in a ground-breaking new industry. We’re a diverse team passionate about delivering a great customer experience, working together with mutual respect and building value out of our differences. We’re an inclusive organization that understands that delivering great results comes out of ensuring every voice is heard.

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer
- Central Systems to join our team!

The Software Engineer is a senior member of the IT Development team, and is responsible for development of individual projects/applications within our Central Systems area. They are highly proficient in specific applications/technology, and competent in identify emerging technologies that may benefit this domain. They are also skilled in collaborating with other Software Engineers to problem solve technical issues.

They foster relationships with Architects, S&T team, and business leads in the OCS to understand the project design and deliver on all technology requirements. They execute development plans according to solution design plans, and work with the QA team to ensure no defects in promoted code. They work with the QA and Dev Ops team in transition planning to the support team, and act as L3 support for completed development work.

• Develops and provides effort estimates for design and development activities across their area of expertise
• Refactor and migrate legacy code and systems to new cutting-edge technologies
• Practiced ability to influence strategy within the application domain and related domains
• Translate functional requirements and wireframes into working technology
• Deploy established development tools, guidelines, and conventions and advocate solutions for the application/solution
• Develops real time and batch interface programs and scalable and high-performance interfaces
• Writes programs to extract, translate, load, and verify data using an enterprise messaging layer (i.e. Kafka)
• Develops programs to address requirements for data conversions and other data transformations
• Ability to configure SaaS, COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) Software with training
• Participates in system and application upgrades and other support activities as needed
• Assists users in solving programs and answers systems and application-related questions.
• Adheres to programming standards when performing analysis, writing documentation, and testing components.
• Develop code utilizing modern development practices such as Continous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and agile methodologies
• Develop Unit test cases and validates test results during testing
• Develops documentation for the programs written or modified
• Provide input for training materials
• Participate in triage meetings involving all the required stakeholders, to discuss actions on any defects and issues the testing team has found during testing
• Investigate, resolve and expedite problems and develop recommendations for resolution.
• Identifies need for technical assistance to help in problem resolution

• Post-Secondary education in Computer Science, Information Technology or related areas OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Significant experience in Systems Integration and Application Development within the Retail or B2B Systems industry
• Certification in Microsoft Dynamics AX and D365 is an asset
• 6+ years of experience with development, databases and data warehouses
• Proficiency in working with widely used DBMS platforms like Azure SQL, Postgre
  
  SQL, or Cosmos
  
  DB, including Advanced knowledge of SQL Server Engine architecture and SQL Server Integration Services
• Cloud experience (Azure preferred) and proven experience with Azure Synapse, Logic Apps, Azure Data Factory and Azure Functions
• Strong SQL skills for writing and optimizing queries to ensure efficient data retrieval and manipulation. Expertise in:
• Tables and…