Senior Data Platform Engineer — Enterprise Analytics

McKesson; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 138,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

McKesson in Mississauga, Canada, seeks a Senior Data Engineer to lead scalable data pipelines and ETL programs, ensuring data integrity and regulatory compliance in a production environment. You will design, implement, and optimize enterprise data infrastructure, collaborating with architects, analysts and data scientists, and mentoring junior engineers.

The role emphasizes data standardization, metadata management, and performance tuning using SQL, Python, Hadoop, Kafka and HDFS, while driving

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent; 7+ years in data engineering or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable data pipelines and ETL programs across internal and external sources.
• Write and optimize SQL and Python queries for performance.
• Develop and maintain metadata repositories for data integrity and usability.
• Implement data standardization, reliability, and quality improvements.
• Troubleshoot complex data analytic issues in production and development environments.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices.

Skills

ETL pipelines

SQL

Python

data modeling

metadata management

Hadoop

Kafka

HDFS

data integration

leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

ETL tools

SQL tooling

Job description

McKesson in Mississauga, Canada, seeks a Senior Data Engineer to lead scalable data pipelines and ETL programs, ensuring data integrity and regulatory compliance in a production environment. You will design, implement, and optimize enterprise data infrastructure, collaborating with architects, analysts and data scientists, and mentoring junior engineers.

The role emphasizes data standardization, metadata management, and performance tuning using SQL, Python, Hadoop, Kafka and HDFS, while driving