Senior Data Engineer: Cloud Data Pipelines & Analytics

Questrade Financial Group; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 123,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RRSP matching

Mental health coverage

Tuition subsidies

Parental top-up

Hybrid work environment

Paid time off

Community service day

Job summary

Questrade Financial Group in Canada is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to architect and deliver scalable data pipelines and platform infra. You will bridge trading and brokerage operations with analytics, using dbt, Spark on Kubernetes, and GCP to ensure reliable, auditable data products.

Join a hybrid environment with compensation, benefits, and growth opportunities as part of the Brokerage Engineering team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive data engineering experience delivering production-grade data pipelines.
• Advanced SQL and Python for data engineering and automation.
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Dataproc, Spark, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with cloud data warehousing and orchestration platforms (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub).
• Experience with dbt for modeling, testing, and lineage.
• Terraform IaC and CI/CD tooling experience.
• Strong relational and NoSQL DB knowledge (MSSQL, PostgreSQL, CloudSQL).
• Experience with modern CI/CD and Git.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for batch and real-time data.
• Architect modular dbt models, tests, and data lineage with SQL.
• Scale Spark workloads on Kubernetes and manage cloud processing.
• Provision cloud data infra with Terraform and CI/CD automation.
• Monitor data pipelines, diagnose issues, and implement self-healing alerts.
• Ensure data governance, lineage, access controls, and regulatory readiness.
• Collaborate with Product, Architects, Engineers, and Data Science teams.
• Define coding, testing, and deployment standards; mentor juniors.

Skills

SQL

Python

dbt

Kubernetes

Apache Spark

Dataproc

BigQuery

Terraform

CI/CD

Data Modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

GCP

Airflow

Databricks

Git

Job description

Questrade Financial Group in Canada is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to architect and deliver scalable data pipelines and platform infra. You will bridge trading and brokerage operations with analytics, using dbt, Spark on Kubernetes, and GCP to ensure reliable, auditable data products.

Join a hybrid environment with compensation, benefits, and growth opportunities as part of the Brokerage Engineering team.