Data Engineer (Maternity Cover)

Join our Data Engineering team as a Data Engineer for a 12-month fixed-term contract to cover maternity leave. In this role, you will be responsible for enhancing our data infrastructure, building and maintaining ETL pipelines, and designing data infrastructure systems. You will collaborate with data scientists, analysts, software engineers, and product managers to improve the reliability and performance of our data infrastructure. This position offers full health benefits, career development opportunities, RRSP matching, flexible hours, and more.

• Coordination with data scientists, data analysts, software engineers, and product managers to design and evolve existing architecture.
• Building, maintaining, and scaling ETL pipelines to support data science, data products, and analytical needs.
• Designing, building, and maintaining data infrastructure systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.

• Deep understanding of two or more of these technologies: Spark, Airflow, AWS EMR, AWS Glue, Sagemaker and Redshift
• Experience with batch processing and streaming systems
• Strong understanding of Data Contracts, microservices principles, and treating datasets/platforms as API-driven products
• A desire to contribute to the broader development community
• A critical thinker and possess creative problem solving skills
• Ability to write high-quality code in Python and PySpark
• Quantitative skills, ability to think analytically, and strong attention to details
• Strong understanding of database fundamentals and software engineering principles
• Exposure and/or strong interest in Kafka or other queuing technologies
• 4+ years of data engineering experience
• Don’t meet all the requirements? Studies show women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs if they do not meet all the qualifications. Therefore, in an effort to build a more diverse workplace, we encourage you to apply anyways. You might actually be the right person or you may be a good fit for a number of other openings we currently have