Junior Associate Jobs in Calgary, AB (NOW HIRING)

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession to accelerate our clients' businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

We are looking for highly skilled Senior Associate L2 (Senior Java Developer) to join a strategic client engagement in Calgary. We are looking for a hands-on senior engineer who combines strong technical expertise with excellent stakeholder management and client-facing skills.

This role requires an individual who can work directly with business and technology stakeholders, drive technical discussions, coordinate across onshore and offshore teams, and lead the design and development of enterprise-grade applications. The ideal candidate is passionate about building scalable, event-driven, cloud-ready solutions while serving as a trusted advisor to clients and project teams.

Client & Stakeholder Management

• Build and maintain strong client relationships and act as a trusted technology partner.
• Serve as a liaison between business stakeholders, architects, product owners, and engineering teams.
• Facilitate requirement discovery, clarification, solution workshops, and technical discussions.
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions and API contracts.
• Communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools and practices to improve development productivity, accelerate delivery, enhance code quality, and support modernization initiatives.

Technical Leadership

• Lead technical design discussions, architecture reviews, and solutioning activities.
• Contribute to high-level and detailed solution design for enterprise applications.
• Drive technical decision-making while balancing scalability, performance, security, and maintainability considerations.
• Mentor and guide junior developers and foster engineering best practices.

Application Development

• Design, develop, and implement scalable Java-based applications using modern microservices architecture.
• Develop and consume RESTful APIs and event-driven services.
• Build resilient, maintainable, and high-performing distributed systems.
• Collaborate closely with architects and cross-functional teams to deliver robust enterprise solutions.

Delivery & Engineering Excellence

• Coordinate seamlessly across onshore and offshore development teams.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, technical grooming, estimation, and sprint planning.
• Drive quality through code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD practices, and continuous improvement.
• Support production deployments, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and performance optimization

Core Java & Backend Technologies

• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Strong hands-on expertise in:
• Java (Java 11+ preferred)
• Spring Boot
• Microservices Architecture
• REST API design and development
• Object-Oriented Design and Design Patterns

Database Technologies

• Strong experience with:
• Oracle Database
• SQL query development and optimization
• Data modeling and database performance considerations

Messaging & Event-Driven Systems

• Strong understanding of Event-Driven Architecture.
• Experience with one or more messaging technologies:
• Tibco (preferred)
• Kafka
• RabbitMQ
• IBM MQ or equivalent

Containerization & Platform Engineering

• Hands-on experience with:
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• CI/CD pipelines
• Jenkins

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Experience with cloud-native application development.
• Exposure to Microsoft Azure services preferred.
• Experience working in on-premise and hybrid deployment environments.

AI-Assisted Engineering & Development

Required

• Experience leveraging AI-powered software development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar tools to improve developer productivity and software quality.
• Ability to effectively use AI-assisted development techniques for:
• Code generation and refactoring
• Unit test creation
• Documentation generation
• API and integration analysis
• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• Development acceleration while maintaining engineering quality standards
• Strong understanding of AI-assisted development best practices, including validation, code review, security, and governance.
• Embraces modern AI-assisted development practices and effectively utilizes GenAI tools to accelerate software delivery while maintaining high standards for quality, security, and maintainability.

Preferred

• Experience applying Generative AI within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Experience using AI tools for legacy application assessment, reverse engineering, code-to-specification generation, or application modernization initiatives.
• Familiarity with prompt engineering concepts and AI-assisted software delivery workflows.
• Experience evaluating and adopting emerging AI development tools and accelerators.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform
• API Gateway technologies
• Distributed systems design patterns
• Monitoring and observability tools (Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, Prometheus)
• Swagger / OpenAPI
• TDD / BDD practices
• Agile/Scrum delivery methodologies
• Front-end technologies such as React or Angular
• Cloud certifications (Azure, AWS)

Required Professional Skills

• Strong client-facing and stakeholder management experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to lead technical conversations with business and technology teams.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced consulting environment.
• Experience coordinating across distributed global teams.
• Self-driven, collaborative, and proactive mindset.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Equivalent practical experience will also be considered.

Pay Range: $130,000 - $160,000

Benefits of Working Here:

• Generous paid vacation and 15 paid holidays

• Maternity and paternity leave (birth or adoption)

• Gym, travel, retail and phone service discounts

• Tuition reimbursement

• Corporate gift matching program

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at  hiring@publicis.sapient.com