Data Engineer

GuruLink; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative tech company in Canada is seeking an ambitious engineer to build data systems that power their AI platform. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in data architecture, managing databases, and optimizing data models. Responsibilities include designing database solutions, implementing data pipelines, and enhancing performance. Join a lean team that values problem-solving and collaboration in tackling critical energy issues.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with databases, data lakes, and data pipelines.
• Strong analytical skills and experience with visualization tools.
• Thrives in a startup and small team environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement database and data lake solution for platform.
• Design and implement scalable data pipelines.
• Transform raw data into actionable intelligence for the platform.
• Optimize workflows and infrastructure to enhance performance and scalability.

Skills

Database management

Data pipeline architecture

Data ingestion from diverse sources

SQL proficiency

Python proficiency

Strong analytical skills

Tools

SQL

Python

Data visualization tools

Job description

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia

Our client is an energy trading and monitoring platform that is tackling some of the most critical issues for power consumption for data centres and other high energy use industries. They are looking for an ambitious engineer to build the data systems that power their AI platform. The ideal candidate will have expertise in architecting data pipelines, managing databases, and optimizing data models or creating new analytical tools to help make better business decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement database and data lake solution for platform.
• Design and implement scalable data pipelines.
• Transform raw data into actionable intelligence for the platform.
• Optimize workflows and infrastructure to enhance performance and scalability.

Must Have Skills

• Extensive experience with databases, data lakes, and data pipelines.
• Extensive experience ingesting data from diverse sources.
• Strong analytical skills and experience with visualization tools.
• Proficiency with SQL, Python and relevant technologies.
• Thrives in a startup and small team environment. They are a small team and like to keep it lean and agile.

Nice to Have Skills

• This is a very entrepreneurial company. They want smart, problem solvers that are passionate about what they do and look to not only add value, but tackle tough challenges.
• This is a perfect environment to collaborate with a nimble team and build a great platform solving an important problem.