Lead Software Engineer

Toronto, ON
On-site
Posted Oct 10, 2026
1 position

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Employment type: Full-time
Experience level: Lead · 10+ years
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree
Posting language: English
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Seniority: Mid-Senior level

Job summary

Lead stakeholder workshops and analyze legacy SAS code, pipelines, and reporting logic to document business requirements, rules, and data flows. Define migration specifications and data mappings, and coordinate UAT and validation to support accurate, continuous migration to AWS cloud platforms.

Job details

Job Requirements Business Systems Analyst Location: PCS CA~TORONTO Years of Experience: 14+ Years Job Summary: The Business Systems Analyst (BSA) serves as a strategic bridge between business stakeholders and technical execution teams, driving enterprise data modernization initiatives. With over 14 years of experience, the BSA is responsible for understanding complex legacy data ecosystems, translating business requirements into technical blueprints, and guiding cross-functional teams through end-to-end data platform migrations. The primary purpose of this role is to ensure business continuity, data integrity, and seamless operational alignment during legacy SAS platform transformations to modern AWS cloud architectures. Responsibilities Lead requirement-gathering workshops with key business stakeholders to uncover operational needs and legacy system dependencies. Analyze legacy SAS code, data pipelines, and reporting logic to document existing business rules and data flows. Create detailed functional specification documents, user stories, and target-state architecture workflows for cloud engineering teams. Perform end-to-end data mapping from source legacy databases and SAS datasets into modern target cloud structures and data catalogs. Design and execute end-to-end user acceptance testing (UAT) frameworks and data validation strategies to verify migration accuracy. Mandatory Skills SAS Platform Ecosystem & Code Analysis (Expert) AWS Cloud Data Services (S3, Redshift, Glue, EMR) (Advanced) Data Mapping & Interface Specification (Expert) Enterprise Data Cataloging (Data.world / Alation) (Advanced) Legacy-to-Cloud Migration Methodologies (Expert) Data Modeling & Database Architecture (Advanced) Preferred Skills Communication & Presentation Agile/Scrum Delivery Management Data Governance & Compliance ETL/ELT Pipeline Concepts Data Lineage & Metadata Management User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Coordination Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Proven experience in SAS to AWS migration projects and data mapping. Work Experience 5-7Years

What you’ll do

Requirements

The posting requires a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, along with experience in SAS-to-AWS migration and data mapping. It lists expertise in SAS analysis, data mapping, and legacy-to-cloud migration, plus advanced knowledge of AWS data services, enterprise data cataloging, and data architecture.