Remote Senior Data Engineer: AWS, ETL & Data Lake Lead

Launch Potato; Montreal (administrative region); Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing data-driven company in Canada is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to lead scalable engineering efforts. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of expertise in building ETL pipelines and cloud infrastructures, preferably on AWS. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure data reliability and actionable insights support our growth initiatives. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence a high-performance engineering culture and drive impactful outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering within fast-paced cloud-native environments.
• Expertise in building and managing scalable ETL pipelines and data lake infrastructure.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills to support BI, analytics, and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead scalable data engineering efforts to ensure timely actionable data.
• Partner with BI to deliver clean, query-ready datasets.
• Optimize ETL and data lake processes proactively.

Skills

Python

SQL

Docker

AWS

Cross-functional collaboration

Data quality best practices

Tools

AWS S3

AWS Glue

AWS Kinesis

Athena/Presto

Looker

Spark

Job description

A fast-growing data-driven company in Canada is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to lead scalable engineering efforts. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of expertise in building ETL pipelines and cloud infrastructures, preferably on AWS. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure data reliability and actionable insights support our growth initiatives. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence a high-performance engineering culture and drive impactful outcomes.