Staff Data Platform Engineer – Lead Scalable Data Systems

OXIO; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Company paid healthcare

Flexible work arrangements

Team lunches and retreats

International work opportunities

Diverse and inclusive team

Job summary

A tech-forward telecom company in Montreal is seeking a seasoned Staff Data Platform Engineer to lead the design and development of a robust data platform. The role involves working with modern data architectures and driving best practices in data governance while mentoring junior engineers. Ideal candidates should have extensive experience in data systems and platform architecture, coupled with strong leadership skills. Competitive salary and flexible work arrangements offered.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering focused on data systems.
• 10+ years building data solutions with data lakehouse architectures.
• 5+ years creating scalable data solutions using Python and Spark.
• Experience with operational tools to improve efficiency and productivity.
• Strong grasp of data governance and secure data sharing practices.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale a unified data platform integrating various sources.
• Design streaming and batch data pipelines using Spark and Airflow.
• Serve as a leader for infrastructure provisioning with Terraform.
• Collaborate on data governance and logging standards.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team growth.

Skills

Software engineering

Data systems architecture

Cloud-native stacks

Microservices architecture

Data visualization tools

Tools

Spark

Airflow

DBT

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

Databricks

Snowflake

BigQuery

Tableau

PowerBI

Kafka

Job description

A tech-forward telecom company in Montreal is seeking a seasoned Staff Data Platform Engineer to lead the design and development of a robust data platform. The role involves working with modern data architectures and driving best practices in data governance while mentoring junior engineers. Ideal candidates should have extensive experience in data systems and platform architecture, coupled with strong leadership skills. Competitive salary and flexible work arrangements offered.