Job Vacancies at Ezra

Context of the Role

As a Senior Solution Architect at Ezra, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our organisation's technology landscape. This hands-on role requires a seasoned professional with a strong background in software engineering and backend system design. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, clients, and stakeholders to design, develop, and implement high-impact, scalable solutions that drive business success. Reporting to the Manager of Solutions Architecture, you will significantly impact our projects and organisational growth.

Responsibilities

• Solution Development: Drive end-to-end solution development, from initial concept through implementation.
• Analysis and Design: Analyze different patterns and trends to propose architectural solution that meet business requirements, in line with our architecture governance framework and technology roadmap.
• Technical Advisory: Act as a technical advisor to the platform owners, squad members, and software engineers throughout the solution lifecycle.
• Governance: Ensure adherence to all defined Enterprise Architecture standards, quality measures, and both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Standardization: Design Solutions for partners while maintaining the standardization of application.
• Enhancement: Propose architectural enhancements to improve security, agility, performance, and cost effectiveness.
• Technology Leverage: Maximize the use of existing technology capabilities to meet business requirements.
• Resilience and Security: Promote resilient, secure, and cost-effective design, deployment, and integration patterns.
• Documentation: Present, justify, and document the introduction of new technology, design, integration, or deployment patterns as per the enterprise architecture governance framework.
• Trend Awareness: Maintain a high awareness of technology and industry trends.

Qualifications

• Educational Background: Master’s or bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems management, or a related field.
• Software Development: Over 4 years of experience in software development and backend system design.
• Industry Experience: Over 2 years of experience in the FinTech industry.
• Java and Spring: Extensive experience in development and design with Java and Spring.
• Architectural Principles: In depth knowledge in microservices and SOA principals, guidelines, and supporting technology.
• Cloud Native: Experience in cloud native principles, designs, and deployments.
• Resilient Solutions: Experience in developing critical, highly resilient, and secure solutions.
• Lifecycle Knowledge: Comprehensive understanding of the software development lifecycle, various technologies, frameworks, and coding standards.
• Integration Patterns: Knowledge of key integration patterns and tools such as event-based messaging, ETL, ESB, and microservice-based integration
• Multi-Tenancy: Experience working with multi-tenancy solution.
• API Development: Proficient in best practices for API development and deployment.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Familiarity with Continuous Integration / Deployment pipelines.
• Technology Trends: Strong understanding of technology trends and their application in Financial Services.
• Cloud Experience: Working experience on a hybrid cloud model.
• Industry Insight: Awareness of the latest trends and technologies in the FinTech industry.

Skills and Attributes:

• Analytical Skills: Excellent analytical skills to understand long-term and short-term solution perspectives.
• Communication: Fluent in English; proficiency in French is a plus.
• Team Collaboration: Strong ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Problem-Solving: Ability to think critically and solve complex technical problems.

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Role overview:

As a Quality Assurance Engineer at Ezra, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining the quality of our software products. This hands-on role requires a dedicated individual with a strong interest in quality assurance and testing methodologies. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, partners, and other stakeholders to ensure the delivery of high-quality, reliable, and scalable solutions that drive business success and meet our customer needs. Reporting to the Senior Manager Quality Assurance, you will significantly impact our projects and organizational growth.

What you will do:

• Creating detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases. This includes detailed method of procedure for production deployments
• Performing thorough regression/smoke/exploratory tests before code deployments for both user facing apps, as well as backend applications
• Executing and maintaining automated tests
• Understanding and contributing to continuous integration and continuous deployment
• Working with Operations, product, and development teams to identify and track bugs
• Reviewing Business Requirement Documents (BRDs) and Solution Design Documents (SDD) and provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Continuously reviewing test case coverage in our test management tool (AIO) and keeping it up to date
• In-Market Post-production metrics monitoring
• Owning tasks from design, development, launch to operability/production
• Capable of discussing complex architectures, designs, and algorithms
• Understanding of how the work you are doing fits into the bigger picture 
• Solving routine problems in your area and understands how to work with other teams

Required:

• Understanding of QA Methodologies: Knowledge of various testing methods, strategies, and tools.
• Attention to Detail: Ability to identify discrepancies and ensure the software meets the required standards.
• Analytical Thinking: Strong problem-solving skills to identify issues and determine their root causes.
• Communication Skills: Effective verbal and written communication to collaborate with team members and stakeholders.
• Technical Proficiency: Familiarity with programming languages such as, Java, or JavaScript, and knowledge of databases such as SQL.
• Automation: Understanding of automation testing tools like Selenium, JUnit, or similar.
• VCS: Familiarity with version control systems such as Git, BitBucket, etc.
• Team Collaboration: Ability to work effectively within a team and contribute to collective goals.
• Adaptability: Willingness to learn new technologies and adapt to changing requirements.
• Time Management: Ability to manage time effectively to meet project deadlines.

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About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Database Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate should possess a strong background in database engineering, coupled with a solid understanding of data engineering principles. Proficiency in database automation tools, Linux, and Bash scripting is essential
As a Senior Database Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our database systems to ensure high performance, scalability, and reliability. You will collaborate with the different teams, clients, stakeholders and advise as the expert in database design, implementation and serve as a focal point in escalations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain robust database solutions.
• Capacity planning in line with the infrastructure. Design and Implement DBs that can scale.
• Optimize and tune database performance to ensure efficient data processing and retrieval.
• Develop and maintain ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes for data integration and migration.
• Ensure data integrity, consistency, and security across all database systems.
• Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and other stakeholders to define data requirements and develop solutions.
• Monitor and troubleshoot database issues, ensuring minimal downtime and quick resolution.
• Automate database management tasks using automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform and Bash scripting
• Implement backup and recovery strategies to safeguard critical data. Developing, managing and testing back-up and recovery plans
• Monitoring performance and managing parameters to provide fast query responses to front-end users
• Refining the logical design so that it can be translated into a specific data model
• Maintaining data standards, including adherence to the data protection act
• Writing database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary (metadata)
• Controlling access permissions and privileges. Establishing the needs of users and monitoring user access and security
• Ensuring that storage, archiving, back-up and recovery procedures are functioning correctly
• Work directly with development and infrastructure teams to enhance the performance and observability of various database services through monitoring solutions (Grafana, ELK)
• Proficient with building data integrations using both API and file based protocols

Key Requirements

• BSc Degree in one of the following subject areas: Computer Science, Business Administration, Information Technology or related field preferred
• 4 - 5 years IT operation with strong understanding of database structures, theories, principles, and practices
• 4-5 years PostgreSQL Database Administration experience
• 5+ years of experience in database engineering or a similar role.
• Understanding of, and experience with, server-client computing and relational database environments
• Experience with data management and data processing flowcharting techniques
• Knowledge of reporting and query tools and practices
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with database management systems (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server).
• Strong knowledge of data engineering concepts and ETL processes.
• Extensive experience with Linux operating systems and Bash scripting.
• Familiarity with cloud-based database solutions (e.g., AWS RDS, Google Cloud SQL, Azure SQL Database).
• Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra) is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Undertstanding of big data technologies (Apache Hadoop, Spark) and DW solutions (Google Big-Query, Snowflake, Azure Synapse analytics)
• Knowledge in python would be an added advantage