Senior Data Engineer
Experience Level: Level 4 (advanced): 7-10 years.
Location: Montreal
Contract: Full-time (Permanent)
Salary: CA$105,000.00–CA$135,000.00 yearly
Key responsibilities:
- Designing, implementing, managing scalable data solutions using Snowflake environment for optimized data storage and processing.
- Migrate existing data domains/flows from relational data store to cloud data store (Snowflake).
- Identify and optimize new/existing data workflows.
- Identify and implement data integrity practices.
- Integrate data governance and data science tools with Snowflake ecosystem as per practice.
- Support the development of data models and ETL processes to ensure high quality data ingestion in cloud data store.
- Collaborate with team members to design and implement effective data workflows and transformations.
- Assist in the maintenance and optimization of Snowflake environments to improve performance and reduce costs.
- Contribute to proof of concept, documentation and best practices for data management and governance within the Snowflake ecosystem.
- Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to improve team deliverables quality.
- Design and develop data ingestion pipeline using Talend/Informatica using industry best practices.
- Writing efficient SQL and Python scripts for large dataset analysis and building end to end automation process on a set schedule.
- Design, implement data distribution layer using Snowflake REST API.
- Development of Semantic Model in Snowflake and PowerBI is a plus.
Skills / qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Management Information Systems or related field required (Master’s degree preferred).
- 7-10 years’ experience in data analysis, data objects development and modeling in Snowflake data store.
- Snowflake REST API experience.
- Informatica ETL and Talend ETL experience.
- Efficient SQL queries development and Python scripts development experience.
- Proven ability to work in distributed systems.
- Proficiency with relational databases (such as DB2) querying and focus on data transformations.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and team-oriented mindset.
- Strong data modelling concepts and schema design on relational data store and on cloud data store.
- Strong communication skills both verbal and written. Capable of collaborating effectively across a variety of IT and Business groups, across regions and different roles.
- Familiarity with data visualization tools such as Tableau and PowerBI is a plus.
- Collaborating with data scientists/experts to integrate machine learning models into Snowflake.