Data Engineer

Sobeys; Mississauga; Hybrid; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Canadian grocery retailer in Mississauga is seeking a Data Engineer to design and support robust data solutions primarily using Snowflake and Azure. The role includes optimizing data pipelines, writing SQL code, and collaborating with various teams for data-driven decision-making. The company values a hybrid work model, requiring in-office presence at least three days a week. Competitive benefits and professional growth opportunities are provided.

Benefits

Health and dental coverage

Virtual Health Care Platform

Retirement and Savings Plan

10% in-store discount

Learning and Development Resources

Parental leave top-up

Paid Vacation and Days-off

Qualifications

• 2+ years as a Data Engineer (or similar role) with hands-on Snowflake and Azure Data Factory experience.
• Strong proficiency in SQL development (queries, procedures, performance tuning).
• Solid understanding of ETL/ELT concepts and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support robust data solutions primarily on Snowflake and Azure.
• Optimize data pipelines, writing efficient SQL code, ensuring reliability of production jobs.
• Collaborate with architects, analysts, and business teams for data-driven decision making.

Skills

SQL development

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Snowflake

Azure Data Factory

Python

Databricks

Power BI

Job description

Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.

Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.

A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.

Ready to Make an impact?

Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities, and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team! We currently have a full‑time opportunity for a Data Engineer. This role is based out of our office in Mississauga, ON.

Here’s where you’ll be focusing:

• Be responsible for designing, developing, and supporting robust data solutions primarily on Snowflake and the Azure data ecosystem.
• Play a hands‑on role in building and optimizing data pipelines, writing efficient SQL code, automating deployments, and ensuring the reliability of production jobs.
• Collaborate closely with architects, analysts, and business teams to enable data‑driven decision making across the enterprise.
• Write complex SQL queries, stored procedures, views, UDFs, and create/managing tasks, streams, and pipelines in Snowflake.
• Manage end‑to‑end deployment lifecycle including version control, CI/CD pipelines, production support, and troubleshooting of deployed code.
• Design, build, and maintain pipelines and dataflows; debug and optimize ADF jobs for performance and cost efficiency.
• Build and maintain interactive Streamlit applications within Snowflake to provide self‑service analytics and intuitive access to business data.
• Leverage Snowflake Intelligence, Cortex AI, and other Snowflake native AI/ML features to enable predictive insights, natural language querying, and advanced analytics capabilities.
• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architectures to support ingestion, transformation, and delivery of structured and semi‑structured data.
• Partner with data architects, analysts, and product teams to design scalable solutions aligned with enterprise architecture.
• Implement role‑based access, security policies, and data governance practices to ensure compliance and data integrity.
• Monitor pipelines/jobs, proactively identify issues, and implement solutions to enhance reliability and performance.
• Support business and innovation teams to ensure that data products and reports meet requirements.

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What you have to offer:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
• 2+ years as a Data Engineer (or similar role) with hands‑on Snowflake and Azure Data Factory experience.
• Strong proficiency in SQL development (queries, procedures, performance tuning).
• Experience with Azure Data Factory, Data Lake Storage, Databricks, or Synapse.
• Working knowledge of Python (preferred) or similar scripting languages.
• Solid understanding of ETL/ELT concepts and best practices.
• Experience with RBAC, security policies, and data masking/tokenization is an asset.
• Exposure to reporting tools such as Streamlit, Power BI or Tableau (nice to have basic knowledge).
• Strong problem‑solving abilities, ability to work independently and in cross‑functional teams, effective communication skills.

At Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week. This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.

We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package, which varies by role and is designed to help our teammates to live better – physically, financially and emotionally.

We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure the selected candidate is paid fairly and competitively. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.

Benefits:

• Competitive Benefits Package, tailored to meet your needs, including health and dental coverage, life, short‑ and long‑term disability insurance.
• Access to Virtual Health Care Platform and Employee and Family Assistance Program.
• A Retirement and Savings Plan that provides you with the opportunity to build and add value to your savings.
• A 10% in‑store discount at our participating banners and access to a wide range of other discount programs, making your purchases more affordable.
• Learning and Development Resources to fuel your professional growth.
• Parental leave top‑up
• Paid Vacation and Days‑off

We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.