Senior Data Engineer - Data Governance & Platform Lead

Xsolla; Remote; CAD 166,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

A global commerce company in Canada is seeking a Data Engineer to lead efforts in building and optimizing the User Platform and Recommendation Engine. The role involves ensuring data accuracy and performance across various systems including Snowflake, Postgres, and Kafka. Ideal candidates should have 3-8 years of data engineering experience, strong SQL and Python skills, and a solid understanding of data governance practices. The position offers a salary range of $120,000 - $170,000 annually.

Qualifications

• 3-8 years of experience in Data Engineering with data governance responsibilities.
• Proven experience building ETL/ELT at scale.
• Understanding of Snowflake performance tuning, query optimization, and warehouse orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Lead data engineering efforts for User Platform and Recommendation Engine.
• Collaborate with ML engineers, backend teams, and business stakeholders.
• Lead data governance best practices and communication across the organization.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data governance

ETL/ELT

Data modeling

API-based data integration

Microservice architectures

Cross-functional communication

Tools

Snowflake

Postgres

Kafka

Job description

A global commerce company in Canada is seeking a Data Engineer to lead efforts in building and optimizing the User Platform and Recommendation Engine. The role involves ensuring data accuracy and performance across various systems including Snowflake, Postgres, and Kafka. Ideal candidates should have 3-8 years of data engineering experience, strong SQL and Python skills, and a solid understanding of data governance practices. The position offers a salary range of $120,000 - $170,000 annually.