Senior Data Engineer - AI Personalization & Real-Time Customer Data

Intello Technologies Inc.; Eastern Ontario; Hybrid; CAD 104,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions company in Eastern Ontario seeks a Data Engineer to build and operate real-time data pipelines. The role involves partnering with Data Scientists and ML engineers to productionize models using GCP services like BigQuery and Pub/Sub. Applicants should have over 4 years of experience in Data Engineering, with strong skills in Python and SQL. The organization promotes a flexible work environment and offers a competitive salary range of $104,000-$156,000, along with comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Minimum 3 weeks of vacation

Flexible benefits plan

Career growth opportunities

Company matched pension

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Data Engineering or backend data systems.
• Hands-on experience with GCP, especially BigQuery and Pub/Sub.
• Experience designing and operating streaming or event-driven pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate real-time data pipelines for customer events.
• Develop event-driven architectures using GCP services.
• Monitor and improve production pipelines to ensure data quality.

Skills

Python

SQL

GCP

Data modeling

Data quality

API integration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

BigQuery

Pub/Sub

Dataflow

Job description

Join our team and what we'll accomplish together

The AI Products and Platform (AIPP) team builds the foundational capabilities that enable AI-driven personalization, decisioning, and real-time customer experiences at scale. Our work supports intelligent interactions across digital and assisted channels, helping ensure customers receive timely, relevant, and responsible experiences.

The team develops and operates platforms for customer segmentation, anomaly detection, and AI-based decisioning, where machine learning models are used to arbitrate recommendations and outcomes. These capabilities rely on high-quality, real-time data to function reliably in production.

While Data Engineers on the team do not build machine learning models, they play a critical role in enabling and operationalizing AI by designing event-driven data pipelines, data architecture, and foundational datasets that allow models to be trained, scored, monitored, and safely activated in real time. Their work ensures AI outputs are reliable, explainable, and actionable across downstream systems.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on event-driven pipelines, customer segmentation, and data ingestion.

You will partner closely with Data Scientists, Product Managers, IVR/CCAI teams, and Software Engineers to productionize ML models, enable real-time triggers, and support internal tooling (such as future offer-loading or segmentation UIs).

What you will do

• Build and operate real-time data pipelines that ingest customer events (payments, app behavior, IVR interactions) and power ML product decisions across channels.
• Develop event-driven architectures using GCP services (Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Run, BigQuery) to support low-latency triggers and segmentation.
• Partner with Data Scientists and ML engineers to productionize AIPP models (e.g., ML2), transforming model outputs into reliable, explainable data feeds.
• Translate business and marketing requirements into scalable data logic, including customer segments, eligibility rules, and offer mappings.
• Enable IVR and CCAI experiences by supporting data flows for intelligent routing, proactive messaging, and self-serve journeys.
• Support internal tools and future UI capabilities by providing clean datasets, schemas, and APIs for Software and Full Stack Engineers.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve production pipelines, ensuring data quality, reliability, and observability during peak periods.
• Optimize for performance and cost, balancing streaming workloads, BigQuery usage, and API integrations.
• Enable responsible AI practices through validation, lineage, and monitoring so personalization decisions remain transparent and trustworthy.
• Contribute to long‑term architecture and standards, helping AIPP evolve into a steady‑state personalization platform.

What you bring

• 4+ years of experience in Data Engineering or backend data systems
• Strong experience with Python and SQL in production environments
• Hands‑on experience with GCP, especially BigQuery and Pub/Sub
• Experience designing and operating streaming or event‑driven pipelines
• Understanding of data modeling, data quality, and pipeline reliability
• Experience integrating data via APIs, including retries, rate limiting, and failure handling
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Systems, or a related technical field OR equivalent hands‑on industry experience building production‑grade data pipelines

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Adobe Experience Platform or other CDPs
• Exposure to AI/ML feature pipelines or real‑time model scoring
• Experience with Dataflow (Apache Beam), dbt, or Airflow/Composer
• Familiarity with personalization or decisioning platforms (PEGA‑like concepts)
• Telecom or high‑volume consumer data experience

Salary Range: $104,000-$156,000

Performance Bonus or Sales Incentive Plan: 15%

Actual total compensation will be determined based on factors such as knowledge, skills, performance and experience. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply, even if the posted salary range doesn't match your expectations. We're open to discussing competitive compensation packages tailored to your experience level and expertise. TELUS offers rewarding benefits, which may vary per job function, such as:

• Comprehensive total rewards package highlighting competitive salary and bonus structures, minimum 3 weeks of vacation, and flexible benefits plan to meet the needs of you and your family
• Flexibility to work in‑office, virtually or a combination of both, based on the role's requirements
• Generous company matched pension and share purchase programs
• Opportunity to give back to communities in which we work, live and serve
• Career growth and learning & development opportunities to develop your skills
• And much more …

A bit about us

We’re a people‑focused, customer‑first, purpose‑driven team who works together every day to innovate and do good. We improve lives through our technology solutions and foster a culture of innovation that empowers team members to solve complex problems and create remarkable human outcomes in a digital world.

You’ll find our engaging, high‑performance culture personally fulfilling, professionally challenging, and financially rewarding. We’re committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability. Your unique contributions and talents will be valued and respected here. When you join our team, you’re helping us make the future friendly.

Note for Quebec candidates: if knowledge of English is required for this position, it is because the team member will be asked, on a regular basis, to interact in English with external or internal parties or to use English applications or software as part of their tasks.

Accessibility

TELUS is proud to foster an inclusive culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to fair employment practices and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

We offer accommodation for applicants with disabilities, as required, during the recruitment process.