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Do you enjoy building trusting business relationships? Do you love uncovering a need and being able to deliver a solution? If so, a position at Lodestar Technologies may be the right opportunity for you.

At Lodestar Technologies, we focus on helping our clients to build and benefit from a data driven environment. By making it easier to access the data that they need, our clients are able to utilize data to support decision making in all aspects of their business. In our roles, you will work with financial institutions across North America to help them achieve their goals using our product offering and by highlighting the importance of data analytics.

Why join Lodestar?

  • Great products, great team, great clients
  • Grow your career in a challenging, fast-paced and flexible work environment
  • Strong compensation package including benefits
  • Excellent learning and mentoring opportunities
  • As part of our team, you can affect change and have a voice in product direction
  • Creativity and innovation is welcomed and encouraged
  • We are a close knit team that conquers challenges and celebrates success
  • Our clients value your contributions in helping them achieve their goals
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OUR BUSINESS PARTNERS

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OUR OFFICE

Headquarters, Munich
Pelikanstrasse 2
80333, Munich, DE
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+49 89 123 456
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OUR COMPANY HISTORY

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    2020 - TODAY

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Current Openings

View our current openings and apply today. Please reach out to info@lodestartech.ca with any questions. 

 

Business Analyst – Remote
 
At Lodestar, we want to be the best data solution and analytics partner for credit unions in the world. Our talent and technology strengthen our clients’ data maturity, empowering them to make strategic decisions that improve lives.

 

Primary Objectives:

Join Lodestar Technologies as a Business Analyst where you’ll play a pivotal role in enabling our clients, primarily financial institutions across North America, to harness the power of data analytics. Your primary objective will be to collaborate with clients, understanding their unique business needs and leveraging our business intelligence software infrastructure to address them effectively. You’ll analyze data to unveil trends and ensure accuracy, provide essential training and support, gather requirements for reporting and development, and conduct quality assurance testing. Your efforts will be instrumental in promoting the vision and utilization of business intelligence within our client base and prospective partners, contributing significantly to their success in leveraging data for informed decision-making across all facets of their operations.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with clients to understand their business requirements and objectives, particularly within the financial sector, ensuring alignment with the capabilities of the Fintech company’s offerings.
  • Analyze complex financial data to identify trends, patterns, and insights that can inform strategic decision-making for both clients and the Fintech company.
  • Facilitate meetings with stakeholders to gather and document detailed requirements for software development, ensuring clear communication and understanding of needs.
  • Work closely with development teams to translate business requirements into functional specifications, ensuring the delivery of high-quality software solutions.
  • Perform thorough testing and validation of software solutions to ensure they meet the defined requirements and adhere to industry standards and regulations.
  • Provide ongoing support and training to clients on the effective use of products and services, ensuring maximum value realization and user adoption.
  • Monitor and evaluate the performance and effectiveness of solutions in meeting client needs, identifying areas for improvement and optimization.
  • Stay abreast of industry trends, regulatory changes, and emerging technologies in the Fintech space, providing insights and recommendations for future product enhancements.
  • Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation, including user manuals, training materials, and process documentation, to support clients and internal stakeholders.
  • Act as a liaison between business stakeholders, technical teams, and other relevant parties, fostering strong communication and collaboration to drive successful project delivery and client satisfaction.

Qualifications

Mandatory Skills:

  • Previous experience with any of the following core banking platforms is a must: DNA, Symitar, Correlation.
  • Excellent understanding of Financial Services data specifically related to Banking/Credit Unions.
  • Knowledge of banking systems, data structures, and regulatory requirements related to ETL processes in the banking industry.
  • Familiar with software development processes such as requirements gathering, developing statements of work, testing and code deployment.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
  • Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex data integration issues and provide effective solutions.
  • Data-driven individual that believes in the value of information and how it can transform the enterprise.
  • Innovative, curious and solution-oriented individual with strong communication skills.
  • An individual who is comfortable with rapidly changing technology.

Soft Skills:

  • Strong command on spoken and written English.
  • Ability to multi-task and handle changing priorities.
  • Excellent team skills, can-do attitude, focus on quality and drive to make a difference in a dynamic, fast paced organization.

We encourage you to apply even if you feel that you do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed. Frequently cited statistics show that women and underrepresented groups apply to jobs only if they meet all the listed qualifications. We look forward to your application.

Expected salary range is $60,000 – $65,000 USD ($75,000 – $80,000 CAD). Position is open to applicants in the US and Canada. 

Additional Information:

Lodestar is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law. As an equal opportunity employer, we offer competitive compensation packages, robust benefits and professional growth opportunities aimed at helping to improve our employees’ lives and careers.

Offers of employment will be contingent upon passing a post-offer background check as well as references.

 If interested in this position, please submit your resume to colin.phillips@lodestartech.ca.
DevOps Team Lead - Remote
 
At Lodestar, we want to be the best data solution and analytics partner for credit unions in the world. Our talent and technology strengthen our clients’ data maturity, empowering them to make strategic decisions that improve lives.

 

Primary Objectives:

The DevOps Team Lead will play a key role in an innovative and growing company. Reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer, this role will oversee both a software development process and its continued operation after release. On the software development end, the DevOps Team Lead works to actively manage the development pipeline according to defined SLAs and works closely with the Product Manager to review new product enhancements ensuring the successful implementation of them back into the product. At the same time, performing programming duties and working on active development projects. On the operations end, the DevOps Team Lead works to ensure the production application in our clients is patched, tuned, our clients are supported, and keeps all aspects of the product up to date. The DevOps Team Lead will be leading a team of systems engineers, Oracle programmers and application analysts and will provide guidance, support, and performance feedback.
 
Below is the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We encourage you to apply even if you feel that you do not meet all the below qualifications. Frequently cited statistics show that women and underrepresented groups apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Lodestar encourages you to break that statistic and to apply. No one ever meets 100% of the requirements. We look forward to your application!
 
The candidate should reside in North America
 

Responsibilities 

  • Managerial Role – Lead, mentor, and develop a team of skilled DevOps professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
  • Continuous Delivery – building, testing, deploying applications quickly and in an automated manner.
  • Infrastructure Automation – creating systems, OS configuration, and application deployments as code.
  • Site Reliability Engineering – operate systems; monitoring, orchestration, and designing for operability and security.
  • Collaborating with the Chief Technology Officer on continuously improving the product, architecture, and efficiency of supporting the application
  • Defining, testing, and patching our Oracle db and Oracle Analytics application.
  • Manage the day-to-day testing activities of the Dev team which includes resource allocation, escalating and resolving software defects and issues, participating in release testing activities.
  • Research, gather feedback, and help build momentum for change within the organization as we move to a SaaS environment
  • Gather product & business requirements, gut check new ideas and proposals, balance tech-debt and delivery of product functionality
  • Accountable to the applications availability, performance and participate in high priority escalation calls
  • Effectively manage multiple highly visible priorities at a time
  • Influence or provide input to cost and capacity forecasting and planning activities
  • Ensuring production is managed, supported, and controlled with the appropriate level of governance and agility
  • Manage internally developed releases
  • Managing development pipeline to defined SLA's
  • Client communication
  • Performance tuning

Qualifications

Mandatory Skills:

  • 5+ years of experience in product development or DevOps
  • Experience managing and leading a team of programmers through the software development life cycle
  • Excellent programming/scripting skills in Oracle PL/SQL, Java, Python, PowerShell, Bash
  • Experience with Cloud / Virtualization concepts and tools (AWS, Azure, or OCI)
  • Must have experience with basic infrastructure services like LDAP, DNS, DHCP, Active Directory
  • Good understanding of modern source control tools and associated methodologies
  • Good understanding of Financial Services data
  • REST APIs knowledge
  • Thorough understanding of DevOps culture and Agile Methodology.

Good to have:

  • Oracle Analytics experience an asset
  • Oracle APEX experience an asset
  • SaaS and multi-tenant development experience
  • Cloud security and knowledge of cybersecurity in the context of the cloud.
  • Prior telecom and networking experience is helpful.

Soft Skills:

  • Strong command on spoken and written English.
  • Ability to multi-task and handle changing priorities.
  • Excellent team skills, can-do attitude, focus on quality and drive to make a difference in a dynamic, fast paced organization.

We encourage you to apply even if you feel that you do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed. Frequently cited statistics show that women and underrepresented groups apply to jobs only if they meet all the listed qualifications. We look forward to your application.

Expected salary range is $80,000 – $85,000 USD ($105,000 – $115,000 CAD). Position is open to applicants in the US and Canada. 

Additional Information:

Lodestar is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law. As an equal opportunity employer, we offer competitive compensation packages, robust benefits and professional growth opportunities aimed at helping to improve our employees’ lives and careers.

Offers of employment will be contingent upon passing a post-offer background check as well as references.

 If interested in this position, please submit your resume to colin.phillips@lodestartech.ca.

Open Positions

Programmer Team Lead

Primary Objectives The Programmer Team Lead will play a key role in an innovative and growing data analytics company. This role will report directly to the Chief Technology Officer. The Programmer Team Lead will over see a team of Oracle programmers within the larger DevOps team. The Programmer Team Lead will work to actively manage the development pipeline to ensure that SLAs and key milestones are met. The Programmer Team lead will work closely with the Product Manager to review new product enhancements to ensure successful implementations of said enhancements. The Programmer Team Lead will have programming duties as well and will be hands on keyboard working on active development projects. Operation centric responsibilities for this role will include ensuring that production code is tuned, our clients are supported, and all aspects of our products are up to date. Below is the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We encourage you to apply even if you feel that you do not meet all the below qualifications. Frequently cited statistics show that women and underrepresented groups apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Lodestar encourages you to break that statistic and to apply. No one ever meets 100% of the requirements. We look forward to your application! The candidate must reside in North America.
Responsibilities
● Lead, mentor, and manage a small team of programmers, providing guidance on technical issues, project planning, and career development.
● Foster a collaborative environment that encourages innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
● Facilitate regular team meetings, code reviews, and individual check-ins to maintain team alignment with project goals and company standards. This will include daily standups with the team, weekly team development meetings, and quarterly planning sessions.
● Design, develop, and maintain high-quality code within the Oracle technology stack, ensuring performance, scalability, and security.
Actively participate in hands-on coding, debugging, and troubleshooting for complex projects and tasks.
● Oversee and contribute to codebase maintenance, ensuring best practices in version control, code documentation, and testing.
● Collaborating with the Chief Technology Officerand Product Manager on continuously improving the product, architecture, and efficiency of supporting the application.
● Manage the day-to-day testing activities of the Dev team which includes resource allocation, escalating and resolving software defects and issues, participating in release testing activities.
● Gather product & business requirements, gut check new ideas and proposals, balance tech-debt and delivery of product functionality.
● Accountable to the applications availability, performance and participate in high priority escalation calls.
● Effectively managemultiple highly visible priorities at a time.
● Influence or provide input to cost and capacity forecasting and planning activities.
● Ensuring production is managed, supported, and controlled with the appropriate level of governance and agility.
● Help compiling internally developed releases.
● Managing development pipeline to defined SLA's.
● Performance tuning and DBA activities.
● Client communication.
Qualifications Mandatory Skills:
● Minimum of 5 years of experience in software development, with a focus on data warehousing and analytics solutions.
● At least 2 years of experience in a leadership or team lead role, preferably within the financial services, credit union sector.
● Experience managing and leading a team of programmers through the software development life cycle.
● Proficiency with Oracle databases and related technologies is required; experience with other database or analytics platforms is a plus.
● Excellent programming/scripting skills in Oracle PL/SQLor like scripting language.
Strong coding and debugging skills with an emphasis on efficiency, quality, and maintainability.
● Oracle DBA experience.
● Good understanding of Financial Services data.
Good to have:
● Oracle Analytics experience an asset.
● Oracle APEX experience an asset.
● SaaS and multi-tenant development experience.
● Experience working in an Agile environment.
● Knowledge of additional programming languages, such as PL/SQL, Java, or Python.
Soft Skills:
● Strong command on spoken and written English.
● Ability to multi-task and handle changing priorities.
● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to motivate and guide a technical team.

Submit resumes to colin.phillips@lodestartech.ca.