AI-Powered Data Analytics Engineer (Remote)

Toptal; Toronto; Remote; CAD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Toptal is hiring a Data Analytics Engineer to build and own the data transformation layer, ensuring trustworthy data for decision making. You will lead governance, modeling, and AI tooling integration in a remote, globally distributed team.

Role emphasizes SQL daily, critical thinking, and collaboration with Data Engineers, Business Analysts, and Data Scientists to drive business impact while maintaining data quality and accessibility.

Qualifications

• Expert-level SQL and Python knowledge.
• Experience with cloud data warehousing and transformation frameworks.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, write, review and ship SQL models across repositories.
• Proactively collaborate with Data Engineers to add and publish data sources.
• Monitor data warehouse and extract insights to improve data operations and quality.
• Turn ambiguous business asks into modeled data and define business rules.

Skills

SQL

Python

LLMs

Data modeling

BI tooling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

BigQuery

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Job description

Toptal is hiring a Data Analytics Engineer to build and own the data transformation layer, ensuring trustworthy data for decision making. You will lead governance, modeling, and AI tooling integration in a remote, globally distributed team.

Role emphasizes SQL daily, critical thinking, and collaboration with Data Engineers, Business Analysts, and Data Scientists to drive business impact while maintaining data quality and accessibility.