Staff Data Engineer

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify and prioritize data-driven opportunities and initiatives.

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines supporting analytics, reporting, product, and operational use cases.

• Develop, test, and optimize dbt models following data modeling best practices.

• Manage and support orchestration platforms including Airflow and exposure to Dagster.

• Design and implement dimensional, semantic, and analytical data models to support self-service analytics and business intelligence.

• Drive data architecture decisions and establish engineering standards and best practices across the organization.

• Partner with data engineers and platform teams to improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of our data ecosystem.

• Develop and maintain data quality frameworks, testing strategies, and observability solutions to ensure trusted data assets.

• Support governance initiatives through documentation, metadata management, lineage, and data ownership practices.

• Complete complex analyses and provide actionable recommendations to business stakeholders.

• Oversee team analysis to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and business relevance.

• Champion adoption of data exploration and self-service analytics tools across the organization.

• Lead technical design reviews and provide mentorship through code reviews, architectural guidance, and knowledge sharing.

• Support data engineer hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and continued professional development.

• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives for critical data platform issues.

• Other duties as required.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Statistics, Information Systems, Business, or a related field.

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or a related discipline.

• Hands-on expertise with BigQuery, dbt, Airflow, Python, SQL, and modern cloud data platforms.

• Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts, ETL/ELT design patterns, and dimensional modeling.

• Experience building and optimizing scalable data transformation pipelines in cloud environments.

• Experience working with Google Cloud Platform services such as BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Composer.

• Exposure to Azure data platforms and services is a plus.

• Proficiency with Git-based development workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and software engineering best practices.

• Experience implementing automated testing, monitoring, and data observability solutions.

• Experience with data visualization and exploration tools such as Looker, Mode,Tableau, or similar platforms.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

• Proven ability to lead complex projects and influence technical direction across multiple teams.

• Competitive compensation package

• Fun, relaxed work environment

• Education and conference reimbursements.

• Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others

Salary Range

$160,000—$205,000 CAD

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