Data Engineer

Miratech; Eastern Ontario; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Health insurance

Remote work flexibility

Certification programs

Mentorship

Job summary

Miratech is seeking a Data Engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable data platforms powering business intelligence and data-driven decision making. The ideal candidate brings strong expertise in data architecture, ETL pipelines, data integration, and platform optimization.

You will lead data engineering initiatives, mentor engineers, and enforce best practices while ensuring data quality, governance, and security.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in IT with 5+ years in Data Engineering.
• Strong Python and SQL with ETL pipeline development.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud data platforms.
• Understanding of batch, streaming, and event-driven data architectures.
• Proven ability to optimize data workflows and ensure performance.
• Good project management skills and independent work capability.
• Bachelor’s degree in related field; Master’s preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale robust ETL pipelines for complex data workflows.
• Automate data ingestion from diverse sources with fault tolerance.
• Optimize storage, processing, and retrieval for performance and cost.
• Modernize legacy data systems and implement architectural improvements.
• Lead data engineering excellence through reviews and best practices.
• Ensure data quality, governance, and compliance controls.
• Collaborate with analytics, product, engineering, and DevOps teams.
• Drive data strategy and enable self-service analytics with documentation.

Skills

Python

SQL

ETL pipelines

Data modeling

AWS

GCP

Azure

Airflow

Spark

Kafka

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Engineering/CS/Analytics

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Snowflake

Redshift

BigQuery

Airflow

Spark

Kafka

Job description

Miratech helps visionaries change the world. We are a global IT services and consulting company that brings together enterprise and start-up innovation. Today, we support digital transformation for some of the world's largest enterprises. By partnering with both large and small players, we stay at the leading edge of technology, remain nimble even as a global leader, and create technology that helps our clients further enhance their business. We are a values-driven organization and our culture of Relentless Performance has enabled over 99% of Miratech's engagements to succeed by meeting or exceeding our scope, schedule, and/or budget objectives since our inception in 1989.
Miratech has coverage across 5 continents and operates in over 25 countries around the world. Miratech retains nearly 1000 full-time professionals, and our annual growth rate exceeds 25%.

Job Description

We are looking for a Data Engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure data platforms that power business intelligence and data-driven decision-making. The ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in data architecture, ETL pipelines, data integration, and platform optimization, along with the ability to guide engineering teams and establish technical best practices. In this role, you will drive data engineering initiatives, modernize existing data systems, ensure data quality and governance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact data solutions aligned with business objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and scale robust ETL pipelines to support complex data workflows while ensuring high performance, reliability, and adaptability to evolving business needs.
• Automate and manage data ingestion from diverse sources (databases, APIs, cloud platforms), ensuring system resilience, fault tolerance, and failover readiness.
• Optimize data storage, processing, and retrieval layers to balance performance, scalability, and cost efficiency across the data platform.
• Modernize and enhance legacy data systems by identifying gaps, implementing architectural improvements, and aligning solutions with future business requirements.
• Lead technical excellence within the data engineering function through mentorship, code reviews, best-practice enforcement, and adoption of advanced tools and frameworks.
• Ensure end-to-end data quality, integrity, and governance by implementing validation, monitoring, testing, and compliance-focused data controls.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with analytics, product, engineering, DevOps, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable data models and transformations.
• Drive a data-driven culture and long-term data strategy by enabling self-service analytics, maintaining clear documentation, leading training initiatives, and contributing to architecture roadmaps and governance policies.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in IT with 5+ years of hands-on experience in Data Engineering.
• Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL, with proven experience in ETL pipeline development.
• Experience with cloud data platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, including cloud-native data engineering tools and services.
• Strong understanding of modern data architecture patterns, including batch processing, streaming, and event-driven systems, along with industry best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to optimize data workflows, troubleshoot complex data issues, and ensure high performance, scalability, and reliability of data systems.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to work independently, manage priorities, and deliver high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Data Engineering, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or a related field is required. Master’s degree preferred.

Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience with modern data platforms and tools such as data warehouses/lakehouses (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery), big data or streaming frameworks (Spark, Kafka), and data orchestration tools (Airflow or equivalents).
• Previous experience working withlarge-scale healthcare or insurance organizations.

Additional Information

We Offer

• Culture of Relentless Performance:Join a technology-driven team with a 99% project success rate and over 30% year-over-year revenue growth.
• Competitive Pay and Benefits: Comprehensive compensation package including health insurance and relocation support.
• Work From Anywhere Culture: Flexibility to work remotely.
• Growth Mindset:Access to certification programs, mentorship, internal mobility, and continuous learning opportunities.
• Global Impact:Work on impactful projects with leading global clients.
• Welcoming Multicultural Environment:Inclusive, collaborative, and supportive workplace with regular team-building activities.
• Social Sustainability Values:Commitment to IT education, community empowerment, fair practices, environmental sustainability, and gender equality.

Miratech is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected status under applicable law.