Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE) one of the world's premier sports and entertainment companies, owns the Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL), Toronto Raptors (NBA), Toronto FC (MLS), Toronto Argonauts (CFL), Toronto Marlies (AHL), Raptors 905 (NBA D-League), TFC II (USL) and Raptors Uprising Gaming Club, the Toronto Raptors Esports franchise in the NBA 2K League. Its charitable arm, MLSE Foundation, focuses on funding initiatives to support youth through sport and recreational programs. In 2017 MLSE Foundation, with support of community and corporate partners, built MLSE LaunchPad, a 42,000-sq. ft. space dedicated to programming that support its four Pillars: Healthy Body, Healthy Mind, Ready For School and Ready For Work.

MLSE also owns and operates Scotiabank Arena, Canada’s premier sports & entertainment venue hosting more than 200 events each year, as well as two digital channels (Leafs Nation Network and NBA TV Canada), and has a partnership with Live Nation (the biggest concert promoter in the world). MLSE has also invested in and operates five of Toronto's sports facilities – Coca-Cola Coliseum, BMO Field, BMO Training Grounds at Downsview Park, home of Toronto FC's Academy and the First Team's practice facility, the Toronto Raptors’ training facility and the Ford Performance Centre, the practice facility for the Maple Leafs and Marlies.

MLSE’s common purpose is to unite and empower employees to deliver extraordinary moments to our fans and each other.

Who We Are

We celebrate the diversity, individuality, and personality of our peers, striving to be the best in class, in every class. We believe in Respect, Resilience, Commitment, and Ambition. We work for, with, and around the people that inspire us to try, persist, and achieve more.

Our work goes beyond games, seasons, trophies, and tours. Our success is measured by more than a scoreboard. Our team is stronger when we stand united. We create, we celebrate, we build, and we become better!

What we choose to do next, means everything! It defines greatness, builds character, makes history, and brings the world to its feet.

MLSE Digital Labs is seeking a highly motivated Integration Engineer to join the Digital Labs team with a focus on APIs. The Integrations Engineer will be primarily working on API development and management, and whom will be reporting to the Engineering Manager for Data.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and deploy API solutions using modern DevOps practices and security standards.
• Work on building data ingestion pipelines to ingest data from API and/or Streams.
• Utilize programming language skills to code the required data transformations.
• Develop the test automation solutions for API testing.
• Establish standards and maintain a department-wide body of knowledge on API engineering.
• Participates in planning, definition, and high-level design of the solution and exploration of solution alternatives.
• Partners with other teams like infrastructure and application engineering to define metadata layers, technical strategy, and efficient integration within existing landscape.
• Provides high-level sizing estimates of new development work.

Before going through the qualifications please understand that we are flexible! If you feel you have other expertise/experience that would make you a good fit, please apply, and tell us why in a cover letter.

Qualifications:

• Experience working with data and APIs from business systems, such as POS, ERP, CRM applications.
• Hardworking advocate of security standard methodologies and micro-service architecture.
• Eager to learn and build both technical and analytical skills.
• Self-starter with ability to work independently and balance multiple projects simultaneously.
• Provides input into the ongoing improvement of data integration layer based on standard integration methodologies and approaches.
• Astute on new and emerging technologies and technical approaches.
• Knowledge of software engineering practices for SDLC, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies.
• Proven ability to take a project from scoping requirements through to actual launch of project.
• Proven track record to develop new approaches to complex design problems.
• Ability to prioritize, track and handle work independently in a fast-paced environment.

Technical Qualifications:

• Experience using source control technology such as GitHub.
• Knowledge of Web Services, XML technologies, SOA, and Enterprise Integration Patterns.
• Competent understanding of RESTful, SOAP, GraphQL, WebSocket services.
• Experience with relational SQL databases, such as MSSQL, and PostgreSQL.
• Strong Software Engineering experience with proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: Java, JavaScript, Golang, C#.
• Experience with building data ingestion pipelines both real-time and batch using standard methodologies.
• Experience with building streaming ingestion pipeline using Kafka streams, or others.
• Proficiency in crafting and implementing systems in Azure and AWS.
• Informatica Cloud Platform or similar would be an asset.
• Azure API Management or similar.
• CI/CD orchestration tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Bamboo, Chef, Maven or similar.
• Experience with Spring Boot, Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift.

Apply by:  August 11, 2021

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Partnership will provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in the job application process. If you have difficulty using our online application system and you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email [email protected]. Please note this email is only for accommodation requests. Resumes sent to this email address will not be considered.