Senior Data Engineer — Remote Databricks Lakehouse, Equity

Coconut Software; Canada; Remote; CAD 125,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flex-time & flex-days

Remote work across Canada

Health & dental benefits

Mental health resources

Employee stock options

Internet stipend

Job summary

Coconut Software is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for a 12-month contract in Canada. You will own data engineering on the Data Enablement team, building production pipelines in Databricks and migrating analytics to a lakehouse architecture.

You will collaborate with analytics engineers, product, and enablement teams to deliver scalable data solutions. With 5+ years in data engineering and strong Python/SQL/dbt skills, you will drive data Replication, ingestion, and data contracts, while

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data engineering.
• 2+ years running Databricks in production (Delta, Jobs, DLT/Lakeflow, Unity Catalog).
• Strong Python, SQL, and dbt skills.
• Experience replicating from operational databases (CDC or Events) and ingesting messy files.
• Has been involved in at least one warehouse or lakehouse migration.
• Comfortable with AWS data services.
• Has handled PII or regulated data; financial services is ideal.
• Curiosity for AI and large language models; hands-on use of AI coding agents.

Responsibilities

• Build and run production pipelines in Databricks (Lakeflow, Jobs, dbt).
• Lead migration from Redshift to Databricks and retirement of old warehouses.
• Own replication and ingestion from production databases across environments with data residency and PII handling.
• Set data contracts with internal teams and ML partners.
• Provide estimates, monitor pipeline health and Databricks cost, participate in on-call rotation.
• Document runbooks, lineage, and design decisions for handover.
• Evolve work with AI across Engineering and adopt new AI tools.

Skills

Python language

SQL

Analytical thinking

Communication

Tools

Databricks

dbt

LookML/Looker

AWS

Terraform

Fivetran

DMS

Job description

Coconut Software is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for a 12-month contract in Canada. You will own data engineering on the Data Enablement team, building production pipelines in Databricks and migrating analytics to a lakehouse architecture.

You will collaborate with analytics engineers, product, and enablement teams to deliver scalable data solutions. With 5+ years in data engineering and strong Python/SQL/dbt skills, you will drive data Replication, ingestion, and data contracts, while