Technology Solutions, Data Platform & Engineering - Winter 2027 Co-op/Intern

YOUR NEXT CO-OP PLACEMENT

Work term: Winter 2027

Work term length: 4 months

From classroom to co-op to career, every step of your journey has an impact on your future. That’s why it makes sense to choose a co-op placement with a company that offers truly rewarding work and real-life experience. At Definity®, your contributions, creativity, and energy will be put to good use, and you’ll get to be involved with initiatives that support our strategic goals and use your skills in a supportive team environment.

If you’re looking for a company that takes care of its people — full time, part time, and co-ops alike — and has a track record of doing big things, get ready to love it here.

What can you expect in this role?

We are looking for Technology Solutions Co-op. Through this work, you will be utilizing both system analysis and technical skills. You will gain significant exposure to Data Engineering practices, exposure to distributed computing systems, and visibility into the business allowing you to understand policy lifecycle management and how distributed modern architectures are used to communicate to legacy-based environments.

This is an ideal opportunity for third- and fourth-year students. This position reports to the Big Data Team Lead and receives day-to-day supervision from the Project Manager and/or Technical Lead/Specialist.

What you’ll be doing

• Understanding Data Engineering concepts and related tools/technologies
• Preparing Data sample, performing Data ingestion and transforming Data in

Google Cloud

• Working on different file formats (e.g. AVRO, ORC, Parquet) and data movement

into and out of Cloud based DBs.

• Coding in either Python, Spark or Scala
• Writing Shell Scripts
• Preparing and executing SQL based queries
• Documenting process using Confluence
• Gaining experience of issue tracking (Jira), source code management

(Bitbucket), continuous integrations and build tools (Jenkins), package management and testing framew