Definity is the parent company to some of Canada’s most long-standing and innovative insurance brands, including Economical Insurance, Sonnet Insurance, Family Insurance Solutions, and Petline Insurance. Our ambition is to be one of Canada’s leading and most innovative property and casualty insurers. We can’t do that without our people, so we embrace and encourage a culture that’s collaborative, ambitious, rewarding, and empowering.
We offer a flexible, hybrid work experience where employees work from the office and virtually depending on the type of work they are doing and who they are working with. Bring your true self and be a part of our journey. It’s better here.

YOUR NEXT CO-OP PLACEMENT

Work term: Winter 2026
Work term length: 4
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.

DID YOU KNOW?

• We care about our co-ops: Definity’s co-op students are considered the best pipeline of talent for our full-time, permanent positions.
• We care about students: Definity distributes $85,000 in scholarships to students across Canada each year.
• We care about our community: Definity donates more than $1 million every year to causes that drive true change in the neighbourhoods in which we live and work.

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 framework