Senior Data Engineer — Real-Time AI & Data Platform

GFL Environmental Inc.; Vaughan; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

GFL Environmental Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and maintain real-time data streaming pipelines and robust data lake architecture.

You will own the full data lifecycle—from raw ingestion to AI-driven insights and statistical modelling—to support our next generation of AI-powered products and initiatives. This role involves building end-to-end data workflows, collaborating with Finance, Operations, and Product, and leveraging AWS Glue, Spark, Kafka, Terraform, and Delta Lake to

Qualifications

• Experience designing and maintaining real-time streaming pipelines and data lake infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of data architecture supporting AI-driven insights and predictive modelling.
• Ability to own end-to-end data workflows from ingestion to analytics.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable real-time and batch data pipelines using AWS Glue, Lambda, Apache Spark, and Kafka.
• Evolve data lake architecture for scalable storage, processing, and retrieval at scale.
• Own AI/ML workflows including feature engineering, model training infra, and real-time inference pipelines.

Skills

Statistical modelling concepts

End-to-end AI/ML workflows

Time-series forecasting

Real-time scoring systems

Team collaboration

Tools

AWS Glue

ECS

Apache Spark

Delta Lake

Kafka

Terraform

Job description

GFL Environmental Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and maintain real-time data streaming pipelines and robust data lake architecture.

You will own the full data lifecycle—from raw ingestion to AI-driven insights and statistical modelling—to support our next generation of AI-powered products and initiatives. This role involves building end-to-end data workflows, collaborating with Finance, Operations, and Product, and leveraging AWS Glue, Spark, Kafka, Terraform, and Delta Lake to