Data Engineer

ZoomInfo; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits for the Best You

Base Pay

Bonus

Equity

Vacation & Time Off

Hybrid Working Model

Job summary

ZoomInfo is seeking a Data Engineer III to join the Strategic Partnerships data platform. You will own end-to-end pipelines, from scoping with BU stakeholders to deployment and monitoring, using Snowflake as the primary warehouse and Fivetran, Airflow, and dbt in the stack.

You will collaborate with Marketing, Finance, Sales, Legal, HR, and Product to translate data requirements into production-ready pipelines, ensuring governance and security for PII.

Qualifications

• Solid dbt experience with production models.
• End-to-end ownership from scoping to production deployment.
• Experience with orchestration tools: Airflow and Fivetran required; Dagster is a plus.
• Hands-on with a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake preferred; BigQuery acceptable).
• Experience with AWS and GCP services.
• 4+ years as a Data Engineer with production pipelines ownership.
• Strong communication skills to explain tradeoffs to non-technical partners.
• Autonomy to scope ambiguous asks and deliver with minimal oversight.
• Experience with Databricks and Spark for custom modeling workloads.
• Security-first mindset with PII handling and access controls.

Responsibilities

• Build and own end-to-end data pipelines across Fivetran, Airflow, dbt, and Databricks.
• Design and maintain dbt models feeding the semantic layer; ensure tests and documentation.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Finance, Sales, Legal, HR and Product to translate data needs into pipeline specs.
• Contribute to Terraform-managed infrastructure for Fivetran, GCP resources, and AWS components.
• Follow team engineering standards: testing, CI/CD, code reviews, observability, and documentation.
• Monitor pipelines for SLA and participate in incident response.
• Apply data governance to ensure proper handling of PII and compliance requirements.

Skills

Autonomy

Stakeholder communication

Problem solving

Ownership

Production-grade code

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Fivetran

Airflow

Lambda

dbt

Databricks

Terraform

GitHub

Tableau

S3

AWS

GCP

SQL

Python

Job description

• The Data Engineer III is a core builder on the Strategic Partnerships team’s data platform. They design and ship ETL pipelines, semantic models, and the supporting infrastructure that powers cross-functional initiatives with Marketing, Finance, Sales, Legal, HR, and Product
• Because the team operates on a project/intake basis across many business units, this role requires someone who can context-switch between domains, get up to speed on unfamiliar data quickly, and deliver pipelines that stakeholders can rely on without hand-holding
• The Data Engineer III operates with a high degree of autonomy. They own projects end-to-end — from scoping with BU stakeholders, to building and deploying pipelines, to monitoring them in production. They follow the standards set by the team and contribute back to them as they grow in the role
• The Data Engineer III will work within an established data stack that includes:
• Warehousing: Snowflake as the primary warehouse; BigQuery for GCP-native workloads
• Ingestion: Fivetran for SaaS-to-Snowflake pulls; Airflow (on AWS) for custom DAGs, Lambda-based extraction, and S3 staging
• Modeling: dbt for transformation and semantic layer definition
• Custom compute: Databricks for bespoke modeling work that doesn’t fit cleanly into dbt/Snowflake
• Infrastructure: Terraform for managing Fivetran connections, GCP infrastructure, and AWS resources
• Version control & CI/CD: GitHub
• Consumption: Tableau dashboards; internal tools built on top of semantic data layers
• Build and own end-to-end data pipelines across Fivetran, Airflow, dbt, and Databricks — selecting the right tool for each problem with guidance from the Senior Data Engineer on novel cases
• Design and maintain dbt models that feed the team’s semantic layer, ensuring they are tested, documented, and reusable
• Partner directly with stakeholders across Marketing, Finance, Sales, Legal, HR, and Product to scope data requirements and translate them into pipeline specs
• Contribute to Terraform-managed infrastructure for Fivetran connectors, GCP resources, and AWS components
• Follow and contribute to team engineering standards — testing, CI/CD, code review, observability, and documentation
• Independently resolve complex ETL and data quality issues, escalating only when architectural tradeoffs are in play
• Monitor pipelines for SLA compliance and participate in incident response
• Apply data governance practices to ensure PII is handled correctly and BU-specific compliance requirements (Finance, Legal, HR) are met
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders and advise them on what is and isn’t feasible

Benefits

• Benefits for the Best You - We want our employees and their families to thrive. In addition to comprehensive benefits we offer holistic mind, body and lifestyle programs designed for overall well-being
• Base Pay - We attract and retain the best talent with competitive compensation that aligns with industry benchmarks and merit programs yearly for promotions and salary increases based on performance, time in role, and position to market
• Bonus - When you crush it, we like to celebrate! Bonuses are awarded annually in connection with company and individual performance
• Equity - We offer each employee a generous equity award in the form of RSUs, so they can directly feel the results and success of their hard work
• Vacation & Time Off - We know everyone’s needs are different so we offer flexible paid time off plans including an unlimited vacation option for many employees
• Hybrid Working Model - We offer flexible hybrid remote working models to promote equity, employee wellness, and work life balance

Solid dbt experience — has built and maintained models in a production dbt projectHas built something end-to-end before specializing — values broad competence paired with depthExperience with orchestration tools — Airflow and Fivetran required; Dagster or equivalent a plusHands-on experience with a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake strongly preferred; BigQuery or equivalent acceptable)Experience with AWS (Airflow, S3, Lambda) and GCP (BigQuery and adjacent services)4+ years of professional experience as a Data Engineer, with demonstrated ownership of production pipelinesStrong communication skills — can explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical partners and adapt style to different audiencesAbility to work autonomously — can take an ambiguous ask, scope it with a stakeholder, and ship a solution with minimal oversightExperience with Databricks and Spark for custom modeling and transformation workloadsSecurity-first mindset; familiar with PII handling and access controlsStrong SQL and Python; comfortable writing production-grade code, debugging complex pipelines, and optimizing queries