Principal Data Engineer

Scotiabank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development courses

Diversity and inclusion

Job summary

Tangerine is reshaping banking with a focus on data-driven decisions, AI, and modern cloud platforms. You will lead the design and execution of a new data engineering platform to support analytics and production ML workloads.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with data scientists and product teams, and ensure secure, scalable data pipelines aligned with business strategy. Strong leadership and cloud experience are essential.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in data engineering
• Technical leader for large technology programs
• Experience with data warehousing technologies
• Experience designing data patterns for storage, processing, and analytics
• Experience building data pipelines for reporting and ML pipelines
• Public cloud experience (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• DevOps and CI/CD familiarity

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of Tangerine's data engineering strategy and platform
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and engineers to align requirements with the data platform
• Mentor senior engineers and drive design reviews and code reviews
• Ensure security-by-design in data access and processing policies
• Advance testing, data quality, and operational reliability of pipelines
• Influence product roadmap through technical insights and architecture governance

Skills

Data leadership

Stakeholder management

Cloud architecture

Data pipelines

CI/CD

Security adherence

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

AWS

Azure

Job description

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At Tangerine,we’reredefining banking. As Canada’s leading digital bank, we thrive on innovation, agility, and bold thinking, tackling every challenge head-on with leading technology and the unstoppable power of collaboration.

Our client-obsessed teams deliver flexible, accessible banking solutions, breakthrough products, and award-winning service. Beyond banking,we’recommitted to making an impact in the communities we serve and across our organization. We foster a culture built on integrity, inclusion, and fearless ambition – where diverse perspectives are valued, and people are empowered to do their best work.

Are you ready to disrupt the status quo? Do you crave challenges that push boundaries? Ifyou’rea high performer looking to accelerate your career and reimagine the banking landscape, this is your moment.

Let’sshape the future of banking together!

Leads and builds out a new data engineering platform for Tangerine to enable businessanalytics and production AI and ML applications, in support of business strategies andobjectives. Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations,internal policies and procedures.

Is this role right for you? In this role, you will:

• Champions a customer-focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Leads the design and implementation of the Tangerine data engineering strategy and platform, advising senior leadership and executing on the vision with senior architects and the development team.
• Collaborates with data scientists, data analysts, and software engineers to understand user requirements and inform the design and development of data engineering features.
• Hands on development on highly complex initiatives.
• Champions a data design pattern and architecture that supports Tangerine business needs and collaborates with senior architects on pipeline design to support our architectural vision.
• Mentors technical leads and high-potential data engineers by providing stretch-goals and feedback through design and code reviews.
• Remains delivery focused and help the team to resolve technical impediments.
• Influences product roadmap by working closely with product team and by providing technical insights and suggestions.
• Champions application security best practices and ensure security-by-design in data access and processing. Work closely with security architecture and security advisory committee to ensure continued adherence to directives and all security practices.
• Advances our testing processes including unit, integration, functional, non-functional and security testing.
• Keeps up with innovation in the field of data and AI, enabling advancements around cloud, agentic AI, and production ML workloads.
• Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.
• Understands how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in dayto-day activities and decisions.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:

• 12+ years of data engineering industry experience with a minimum of 8 years designing data platforms for large, complex enterprise applications.
• Experience as a technical leader for large technology programs and initiatives
• Knowledge of/or hands-on experience with data and data warehousing technologies
• Experience shaping and communicating the design pattern to store, organize, process and prepare data for various business purposes
• Experience building, architecting, designing, and implementing data pipelines to support multiple types of downstream needs, ranging from reporting and analytics to production ML inference pipelines and agentic workflows.
• Experience designing and implementing public cloud-based applications on Google Cloud Platform and other cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and knowledge of enhancing CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and influencing skills with the ability to build and foster relationships with business partners, project stakeholders, strategic technology partners and external vendors.
• Commitment to maintaining a diversified set of skills through continued education and mentoring peers and junior and senior team members.
• Ability to collaborate across team and organizational boundaries, build relationships, and achieve broader organizational goals.
• Experience working with 3rd party vendors including defining SLOs, limitations, security assessments, etc. to achieve business goals.

What's in it for you?

• You will be part of a diverse and inclusive team of Client-focused go-getters looking to learn from each other in an environment that celebrates and recognizes success!
• You will have access to thousands of online and in person courses so you can shape your career growth with the support from diverse industry leaders.
• You will get our help to save for your future and to invest in your total wellbeing through our Tangerine benefits*.
• You belong here, we are equal and un-complicated. Bring your true self to work, dress codes don’t apply here.
• You will enjoy workspace flexibility and all the excitement that comes from working at the official Bank of the Toronto Raptors.

*Tangerine employees participate in Scotiabank’s pension & benefits programs (available to permanent employees)

At Tangerine we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the team, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment. If you require accommodation during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know.