**About Our Candidate:  **

  

This candidate should be a self-starter who is interested in learning new
systems/environments and passionate about developing quality supportable data
service solutions for internal and external customers. We highly value natural
curiosity about data and technology that drives results through quality,
repeatable, and long-term sustainable database and code development. The
candidate should be highly dynamic and excited by opportunities to learn many
different products and data domains and how they drive business outcomes and
value for our customers.

  

 **What You Will Be Doing:  **

  

Members of the data engineering team participate daily in ceremonies of Agile
sprint to help design, plan, build, test, develop, and support KAR Global MDM
data products and platforms consisting of Pythion ETL pipelines, Informatica
applications and Postgres, Redshift, Dynamo DB, Oracle, and Snowflake
databases. Our team works in a shared services delivery model supporting seven
lines of business including front-end customer facing products, B2B portals,
mobile applications, business analytics, and data science initiatives.

  

About our Candidate:

  * The Ideal Candidate will be a self-starter who is interested in learning new systems/environments and passionate about developing quality supportable data service solutions for internal and external customers.
  * Design Build and Deliver Enterprise Data / MDM solutions utilizing AWS Data Platform.
  * Demonstrate abilities to quickly earn the trust of key internal and external stakeholders.
  * Understand the architecture and explore possibilities for technological maturity.
  * A problem solver who will help us identify problems, develop ideas, and propose solutions.
  * Lead and inspire teams

  

Responsibilities include:

  

  * Ensure master data integrity, quality, compliance, and consistency across the systems and shared folders (public shared drives and/or SharePoint)
  * Guide client business and technology teams to envision, design and develop strategies for Master Data Management implementation, governance, roll outs etc. 
  * Actively managing master data governance activities such as daily maintenance requests and data clean-up efforts
  * Coordinate master data setup, validations and maintenance in accordance with business practices
  * Ensure metadata is consistently defined across all work streams with no redundancy, and clarity for use
  * Develop strategies and initiatives to improve overall data quality, improve processing times and anticipate future needs
  * Work with product, data science, analytics, and engineering teams to learn project data needs and define project scope.
  * Drive data life cycle management and monitor related master data usage and activities
  * Collaborates with source systems data stewards, Data owners and technical personnel for data governance and resolves any data quality or technical issues related to data ingestion.

  

**What You Need to Be Successful:  **

  * Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Management Information Systems.
  * Data Engineering or a related experience is a must.
  * Can distinguish between  Master Data Management, Data Quality, Data Governance and Data Integration and the needs for each in a mature data environment.
  * Experience with Informatica MDM Hub configurations - Data modeling & Data Mappings (Landing, staging and Base Objects), Data validation, Match and Merge rules, Active VOS, SIF Framework, and MDM User Exits is a Plus
  * Proven success with Java development
  * keeping up to date with the latest tools and technologies.
  * Must have the ability to build or interpret detailed project specifications to develop program logic and code.
  * Working knowledge of Informatica in an AWS Cloud environment is a plus
  * Experience using Github / Jenkins (CI/CD) or comparable delivery stacks (required).
  * Experience planning and designing maintainable data schemas (required).
  * Experience with AWS Redshift, MPP, or Dynamo DB (preferred).
  * Experience with Kinesis/Kafka (preferred).
  * Experience working with large enterprise data lakes (preferred).

  

**Who We Are:**

KAR Global powers the world’s most trusted automotive marketplaces through
innovation, technology and people. Our end-to-end platform serves the
remarketing needs of the world’s largest OEMs, dealers, fleet operators,
rental companies and financial institutions.

  * We’re a technology company delivering next generation tools to accelerate and simplify remarketing.
  * We’re an analytics company leveraging data to inform and empower our customers with clear, actionable insights.
  * And we’re an auction company powering the world’s most advanced and integrated mobile, digital and physical auction marketplaces.

  

We want you to be well and thrive. Our benefits package includes:

  * Competitive compensation
  * Insurance coverage that includes medical, dental, vision and life insurance
  * Flexible spending account
  * Wellness program
  * 401(k) with employer match
  * Employee stock purchase program
  * Paid holidays and generous paid time off
  * Paid parental leave
  * Learning and development resources

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**Summary:**

Openlane Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of ADESA. Openlane is one of the
largest Internet-based B2B automotive remarketing companies in North America
and we are expanding. We are a no-nonsense industry leader, specializing in
the online remarketing of used vehicles.  Our product enables a variety of
sellers, including rental companies, lease finance companies, and automotive
fleet companies to interact with the automobile dealers interested in their
vehicles. Our technology is at the forefront of both private label and open
automotive auctions.  We also provide automated end-of-term and remarketing
processes to automobile manufacturers, captive finance companies, lease &
rental companies, financial institutions and wholesale auto auctions.

  

 **Job Description:**

We are seeking a full stack software developer with experience developing
micro-services. You will be part of a high-caliber development team
responsible for transforming our product.  You will be involved in the design,
building and management of our latest offering.  You must demonstrate that you
are a collaborative team player, results-driven in time-critical environments
with strong technical expertise. You will be contributing to a fast paced,
test driven development environment delivering in short release cycles. The
ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of software development experience
overall, preferably using agile methodologies.

  

 **Responsibilities:  **

  * Create real-time applications that are efficient, highly available, reliable, scalable, maintainable, extensible, and testable.
  * Ensure the quality of the product through code reviews and a high level of unit and functional test coverage.
  * Ensure the software adheres to the company's high level of technical standards.
  * Communicate with business analysts and product owners to clarify requirements in a distributed team environment.
  * Write technical/system documentation.
  * Highlight any potential risks to the leads and seek inputs to resolve identified issues.
  * Mentor less experienced developers.

  

**Required Skills, Knowledge and Experience:**

  * 3+ years of experience in JavaScript technologies such as Vue.js/AngularJS.
  * 3+ years of experience in Java/J2EE, JSP, Spring framework.
  * Experience with unit testing and BDD.
  * Experience with Agile methodologies.
  * Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
  * Experienced in developing REST APIs
  * Familiarity with SOLR Search, Web Services.
  * Experience with Git source control
  * Experience with code reviews.
  * Good understanding of code branching, version control and working in different environments.
  * Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  * Ability to work with teams in multiple sites (onsite, offshore, nearshore).
  * Proven ability to meet deadlines.
  * Understanding of accountability and ownership.

  

**Preferred but not required:**

  * Experience with AWS.
  * Experience with CI tools (Jenkins).
  * Experience with quality management platforms such as SonarQube.

  

**We thank all applicants.   However, only applicants selected for an
interview will be contacted.**

OPENLANE is committed to providing employment in accordance with the Ontario
Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.
Any assessment and selection materials or processes used during the
recruitment process will be available in an accessible format to applicants
with disabilities, upon request.  If contacted for an interview, please advise
Human Resources if you require disability-related accommodation.

  

 **We want you to be well and thrive. Our benefits package includes:**

  * Competitive compensation
  * Health Care insurance, including vision and prescription drugs benefits
  * Dental insurance
  * Employee and Family Assistance Program
  * Life insurance
  * Disability insurance
  * Retirement savings plan
  * Employee stock purchase program
  * Paid holidays and generous paid time off
  * Learning and development resources

