Senior Quality Engineer

Sobeys; Mississauga; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Canadian grocery chain is seeking a Senior Data Quality Engineer to join their Enterprise Data Office. This role, based in Mississauga, involves implementing data governance and quality improvements, developing processes to validate data, and collaborating with business teams. The successful candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree and at least 6 years of experience in data engineering. This position requires a hybrid work model, with presence in the office at least three days a week.

Benefits

Comprehensive Benefits Package

10% in-store discount

Learning and Development Resources

Parental leave top-up

Paid Vacation and Days-off

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years experience as a Data Engineer or Software Engineer.
• Knowledge of effective data management practices.
• Strong communication skills to engage business and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Execute on implementing Data Governance and Data Quality Improvements.
• Develop and implement data quality processes to monitor, cleanse, and validate data.
• Generate data quality reports and dashboards for stakeholders.

Skills

Data governance

Data quality improvement

SQL

Python

Data profiling

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Technology, Computer Science, Mathematics or a related discipline

Tools

Snowflake

Microsoft Purview

Job description

Requisition ID: 191441

Career Group: Corporate Office Careers

Job Category: EDO-Mktg. Loyalty and Digital Data

Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%

Job Type: Full-Time

Country: Canada (CA)

Province: Ontario

City: Mississauga

Location: Tahoe Office

Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.

Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.

A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.

Ready to Make an impact?

Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities, and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team! We currently have an opportunity for a Senior Data Quality Engineer in our Enterprise Data Office (EDO) to support our Marketing, Loyalty & Digital business. This position will be based out of Mississauga depending on the successful candidate's location.

Job Description

As a Senior Data Quality Engineer with Sobeys, you will:

Responsibilities

• Execute on implementing Data Governance and Data Quality Improvements.
• Develop and implement data quality processes to monitor, cleanse, and validate data.
• Identify and resolve data inconsistencies, duplication, and anomalies.
• Collaborate with data owners and stewards to define quality rules and metrics. Support cataloguing of data assets belonging to functional domain; setting correct classifications.
• Work with Data Quality engineer to build data quality dashboards to track data quality issues and improvement initiatives.
• Help define data quality rules and policies associated with Domain data assets.
• Support investigation of Data Quality root causes and remediation.
• Perform data validation across multiple systems to ensure accuracy and integrity.
• Use tools like Snowflake (native services), SQL, Python, or data quality platforms to automate data quality checks.
• Identify business owners to execute data correction activities; engage correct business teams who may need to update their business processes to mediate data quality issues.
• Conduct data profiling to assess the health and structure of data sources.
• Generate data quality reports and dashboards for stakeholders.
• Analyze root causes of data quality issues and recommend preventive solutions.
• Implement and manage data quality tools (e.g. Microsoft Purview).
• Develop scripts and workflows to automate data cleansing and monitoring.
• Integrate quality checks into CI/CD pipelines for data engineering.

Hybrid work model

We require our teammates to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week. This is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Technology, Computer Science, Mathematics or a related discipline. A minimum of 6 years experience as a Data Engineer or Software Engineer professional.
• Knowledge of effective data management practices (governance, data quality, data standards).
• Understanding of marketing data including customer, transactions, behaviour, campaign management, audience segmentation and digital data
• Ability to collaborate with business teams to understand data impacts and define data standards.
• Ability to collaborate across multiple functional areas simultaneously.
• Ability to design impactful quality metrics and tracking.
• Ability to work with business and technology teams to troubleshoot data quality root causes.
• Strong communication skills to engage both business and technical teams.

Compensation and Benefits

We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package, which varies by role and designed to help our teammates to live better – physically, financially and emotionally.

Some websites share our job opportunities and may provide salary estimates without our knowledge. These estimates are based on similar jobs and postings for general comparison, but these numbers are not provided by our organization nor monitored for accuracy.

We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure the selected candidate is paid fairly and competitively. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.

Our Total Rewards programs, for full-time teammates, go well beyond your paycheque:

• Competitive Benefits Package, tailored to meet your needs, including health and dental coverage, life, short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Access to Virtual Health Care Platform and Employee and Family Assistance Program.
• A Retirement and Savings Plan that provides you with the opportunity to build and add value to your savings.
• A 10% in-store discount at our participating banners and access to a wide range of other discount programs, making your purchases more affordable.
• Learning and Development Resources to fuel your professional growth.
• Parental leave top-up
• Paid Vacation and Days-off

We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.