Senior Data Engineer & Platform Architect (Hybrid—Canada)

TekRek; Montreal (administrative region); Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

TekRek is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for a hybrid role based in Montreal or Toronto, with one day a week in the office; Montreal is preferred.

You will own data platform design and delivery for client engagements, acting as a technical advisor and engineer. You will work with diverse stacks, design scalable architectures, and ensure production-grade pipelines for AI and analytics.

Qualifications

• Experience designing data platforms for enterprise clients.
• Strong SQL and Python development.
• Experience with lakehouse patterns and medallion architecture.
• Ability to articulate architecture decisions to non-engineers.
• Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent.
• Experience with cloud data platforms (Azure preferred).

Responsibilities

• Turn client business goals into technical roadmaps and architectures.
• Design scalable data architectures for ingestion, storage and processing.
• Build data platforms mainly on Microsoft Fabric, across client stacks.
• Develop batch and streaming pipelines for AI/ML workloads in production.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists on feature engineering and data quality.

Skills

Client-facing consulting

Distributed systems fundamentals

Architectural storytelling

Pre-sales support

Education

CS degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Databricks

Snowflake

Azure Data Factory

Airflow

Dagster

Prefect

Kafka

Event Hubs

Spark

Flink

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

CosmosDB

MongoDB

Job description

TekRek is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for a hybrid role based in Montreal or Toronto, with one day a week in the office; Montreal is preferred.

You will own data platform design and delivery for client engagements, acting as a technical advisor and engineer. You will work with diverse stacks, design scalable architectures, and ensure production-grade pipelines for AI and analytics.